There are none of my own personal favourites on his CV but there are a few acclaimed shows, which bodes well https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0612768/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
DC Cinematic Universe ( The James Gunn era)
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The key to getting Green Lantern right is portraying the fantastical elements as if they are an ordinary part of the world around the characters. At its heart, the Green Lantern Corps is a police series.
Is it?
One Green Lantern on one far away planet imposes order, and draws a line in space against immigration and invasion, but they don't hand out tickets for parking infringements or csi a crime scene... Actually I saw a power ring csi a crime scene after Orion of New Genesis was murdered in Final Crisis, they told the regular cops to #### off, because the JLA had jurisdiction.
Sorry.
One Green Lantern is coplike, but more than one Green Lantern is an army that changes the direction of the universe.
By the 30th century (in the 80s) The Science Council has banned/banished Green Lanterns from the Solar System, so it looks like they only go where they are invited, but I doubt Hal Jordan ever had himself deputized, to enforce any specific local human laws that an ordinary citizen couldn't, no matter what deal each Justice League made with local law enforcement.
I’ve often thought of it as a “US Marshal” 19th century style rather than a contemporary style police. Or NWMP/Dominion Police (precursors to our more famous RCMP).
I've always thought of GL's more as Space sheriff's, they're "the law" in their sector and generally have to deal with crime either alone of with a partner (depending on the comic era). They're not pulling over spaceships for having a metaphorical tail light out, if you get what I mean.
Sorry Guy, Ovation, and kirk55555---I was thinking of street cops. I was thinking more Marshals, Sheriffs and the like. I like the 19th century Marshal comparison, which I think works really well. The Far Sector series a few years back was a great example of a Green Lantern detective story.
Agreed--a Lantern or his environment are simply part of daily life, and not the bug-eyed 6-year-old boy reactions from the main character, as seen in 2011's abysmal Green Lantern film. Even a lazy glance at the early GL Silver Age comics would illustrate his not acting like a child with a new toy, or running around Disneyland. His power and service were all part of the job--and his life.
To a point. The best depiction of the Green Lanterns was in a series who's name I cannot remember, and for some reason I think it was written by Dave Gibbons, but it wasn't a GL series, one just showed up in it. I remember the writer saying that the GL's should be revered like Jedi Knights because they AREN'T like beat cops. There are only 3600 in the UNIVERSE, so these are guys you're not going to be seeing all the time like cops. They don't show up for average shit, they only show up for the big stuff and the odds of anyone ever seeing one in their lifetimes is remote and a huge deal if you do see one. Oh, you'll have heard legends about them, you'll know they're out there, but because of their small number relative to the space they protect means they don't have time to be "beat cops" like Geoff Johns made them into. I loved that take because it was far more believable and introduced a sense of wonder to the Corps that's been missing since Johns turned them into beat cops.
I like that analogy.
It appears that this location in LaGrange, Georgia, may be the Kent farm in Gunn's Superman. You can see what appear to be film trucks and equipment at the far right side of the second picture.
SNL actor Beck Bennett (a suitably comic character sounding name) has joined the cast of Superman https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/james-gunn-superman-beck-bennett-1235915955/
From THR's article:
Gunn has since confirmed on Threads that the notable Planet reporter in question is Steve Lombard.
He was in Man of Steel. He was also name-dropped on Superman & Lois.
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