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News Green Lantern-Inspired Series in Works at HBO Max, From Greg Berlanti

Just keep the based around Hal and adapt the Johns’ run. If they do that they will have the single greatest TV show since the Grand Tour.
 
Just keep the based around Hal and adapt the Johns’ run. If they do that they will have the single greatest TV show since the Grand Tour.

The first season, assume that the Corps is recovering from Hal/Paralax and do the Rebirth storyline with Flashbacks to before Hal goes mad after the Coast City incident. The series writes itself.
 
The Johns run is very nerdy and inside comicbooks - it would not make a good series for a general audience. It's also a bit cartoon like with the same bad-guys popping up over and over. I am sure some of the concepts make it however.
 
The Johns run is very nerdy and inside comicbooks - it would not make a good series for a general audience. It's also a bit cartoon like with the same bad-guys popping up over and over. I am sure some of the concepts make it however.
Johns ideas basically created the Arrowverse. I think the beats of his run, combined with Flashbacks in the style of Arrow -- but in this case to explain elements of the Green Lantern story-- could be very successful. Second Season--Sinestro Corps war with the flashbacks being Hal's relationship with Sinestro.
 
Johns ideas basically created the Arrowverse. I think the beats of his run, combined with Flashbacks in the style of Arrow -- but in this case to explain elements of the Green Lantern story-- could be very successful. Second Season--Sinestro Corps war with the flashbacks being Hal's relationship with Sinestro.

Well if you look at the arrowverse - many of the concepts make it but actual straight adaptations? No.
 
Well if you look at the arrowverse - many of the concepts make it but actual straight adaptations? No.
That's true. The CW shows use the concepts but tell them in unique ways--this is similar to the MCU. Film and television adaptations have so far chosen not to tell the exact comic book stories except for those productions made from Indy comic books.
 
They would have issues when they get to Blackest Night since that requires the whole DCU. Sinestro Corps War could work since we have the anti matter universe and the anti monitor.
 
Even on a HBO budget - i doubt you are getting to get hundreds of Lanterns flying around like in the Sinestro War.
 
It won't be a literal adaption of comic books any more than Berlanti's other shows.

Maybe working on the GL film taught him not to do that.
 
I think an "HBO" TV budget can do a hell of a better job.

It's not HBO, it's HBO Max, a streaming service. We don't know how the budgets will compare. But they'll still probably be less than a tentpole feature film's budget.


One of the poorer points of the movie was the design of OA. It looked bleak and depressing--OA should look brighter and more hopeful. One of the great elements of the Green Lantern Corps is the sense of friendship and camaraderie we see--the other is that OA looks like a bright and hopeful technological future. This shouldn't be difficult to create.

Either way, the point is the same -- whether it's for budgetary reasons, creative reasons, or just everyday common sense, it should be obvious that the designs and footage from the movie will not simply be recycled in the show. Therefore, the clips from the movie as "Earth-12" at the end of Crisis were not intended to represent the upcoming Max series. Some people online (including so-called "journalists") just failed to do their homework and jumped to the conclusion that it was a preview clip of a series that's barely entered development yet, rather than a tribute to a past movie.
 
It's not new footage but it's a teaser nonetheless.

Quick - spot the TNG footage in the first teaser promo for that series:

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What they're telling the audience is that the Corps is a "real" part of the Berlantiverse. That's no less an implicit promise than the Stargirl stuff.
 
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It's not HBO, it's HBO Max, a streaming service. We don't know how the budgets will compare. But they'll still probably be less than a tentpole feature film's budget.

It is a flagship show for a freshly launching premium service, I think it's safe to say the budget will likely be several times the average Arrowverse show, and a lot can be done with that.
 
It is a flagship show for a freshly launching premium service, I think it's safe to say the budget will likely be several times the average Arrowverse show, and a lot can be done with that.

I never said it couldn't be. I'm just saying that it won't be the same as the movie, and that the movie clips we saw were not previews of the show as some mistakenly assumed.
 
For whatever it might add to this discussion ... Marc Guggenheim says that the Green Lantern movie footage was something the Arrowverse producers wanted, but had to negotiate permission to use:
"There were some Easter eggs and cameos that just like fell into our lap, and then there were other ones where it was months of diplomacy on a variety of different fronts," Guggenheim told ComicBook.com. "I would say the Green Lantern footage...it fell somewhere in the middle. And that was a one where it was like, it's in, it's out, it's in, it's out. That was definitely sort of an emotional roller coaster one, but it all came together, which was great. I have to say, there were people like Jim Lee and Dan Evans of DC, who were very much in favor of it. I think that helped put it over the finish line."

Source: https://comicbook.com/dc/2020/01/17/crisis-infinite-earths-green-lantern-movie-cameo-guggenheim/
 
The Johns run is very nerdy and inside comicbooks - it would not make a good series for a general audience. It's also a bit cartoon like with the same bad-guys popping up over and over. I am sure some of the concepts make it however.
I can almost guarantee that the multiple color corps will be a part of it. Pretty much everything involving the Lanterns since they were introduced has involved them, and I doubt the show will be different.
 
I'd expect them to segue into that kind of thing after establishing the premise for a season.

The Sinestro Corps is a no-brainer.
 
I never said it couldn't be. I'm just saying that it won't be the same as the movie, and that the movie clips we saw were not previews of the show as some mistakenly assumed.
Who here was claiming the footage was a actual preview? The series is still in pre production.
 
I can almost guarantee that the multiple color corps will be a part of it. Pretty much everything involving the Lanterns since they were introduced has involved them, and I doubt the show will be different.

Maybe also a scene where Hal explains his girlfriend is legal on Graxos IV if they want to adapt Johns work?
 
Maybe also a scene where Hal explains his girlfriend is legal on Graxos IV if they want to adapt Johns work?

That apologist Geoff Johns changed that.

Her planet revolves around it's sun slowly, or it's a larger orbit.

14 alien years is the same as 300 earth years.

This is NOT what was established as canon in the 80s, actually it's the opposite. Arisia said that 2 alien years are the same as 1 Earth year, so back home she's 30 and Hal is 60, which is legal on earth.

Hal Jordan is a Pervert who should have been Freddie Kruegered years ago.
 
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