Adam Lenhardt
Senior HTF Member
The series will be written by Marc Guggenheim ("Arrow", Green Lantern) and Seth Grahame-Smith ("The Hard Times of RJ Berger", Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter), with Grahame-Smith serving as showrunner.
It will be an hour-long series, and HBO Max has order ten episodes for the first season.
Here is HBO Max's announcement:
Based on that, it sounds like we're getting the 2012 reinvention of Alan Scott. No word, either, on whether it will exist in continuity with one of the existing DC shows or be its own thing. The series finale of "Arrow" strongly hinted that John Diggle had been entrusted with a Green Lantern ring, and the Alan Scott Green Lantern exists in the backstory of "Stargirl".
It will be an hour-long series, and HBO Max has order ten episodes for the first season.
Here is HBO Max's announcement:
From HBO Max, DC, Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television comes a bold adaptation of the iconic comic book franchise, a saga spanning decades and galaxies. GREEN LANTERN will depict the adventures of a multitude of Lanterns, including Guy Gardner, Jessica Cruz, Simon Baz and Alan Scott — Earth’s first Green Lantern, who, true to the comics, is a gay man — and many more. The series will also include fan favorites such as Sinestro and Kilowog, and will also introduce new heroes to the ranks of the Green Lantern Corps.
Based on that, it sounds like we're getting the 2012 reinvention of Alan Scott. No word, either, on whether it will exist in continuity with one of the existing DC shows or be its own thing. The series finale of "Arrow" strongly hinted that John Diggle had been entrusted with a Green Lantern ring, and the Alan Scott Green Lantern exists in the backstory of "Stargirl".