Must be why they left Rhode Island
Green Lantern on HBOMax
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Wait, there's gonna be porn-level nudity in a Green Lantern show? Damn, DC's getting bold.
Wait till you see where Hal wears the ring.
There are various rumours going around on Twitter that Josh Brolin has been offered the role of Hal Jordan. Making this his fourth comic strip role, if he accepts it (Jonah Hex, Cable and, of course Thanos).
It would also mean that both he and his Deadpool 2 costar Ryan Reynolds would both have played Hal, while the current DCU GL, Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardener,
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It would also mean that both he and his Deadpool 2 costar Ryan Reynolds would both have played Hal, while the current DCU GL, Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardener,
was Headpool in D3
Thats pretty old casting for Hal Jordan (Brolin is 56) , although that works if they want to have him be the grizzled older space cop. But that also means that he's probably been a Green Lantern for 30+ years, which has weird implications for the universe if this is canon to Gunn's stuff.
Or desperate.
I would much rather see a Green Lantern show that wasn't something that could be done by Supernatural or a dozen other Earth-based shows.
Unless the Green Lantern is Alan Scott and we're going Golden Age GL.
I might check it out but the premise definitely hurts my interest. If it goes cosmic in Season 2, then I'll definitely be interested.
Unless the Green Lantern is Alan Scott and we're going Golden Age GL.
I might check it out but the premise definitely hurts my interest. If it goes cosmic in Season 2, then I'll definitely be interested.
I doubt there's anything weird about it.
It sounds like Gunn is very much building an already lived-in universe anyway. That's why there are so many other heroes in the background of the Superman movie.
In the current Alan Scott Green Lantern Comic, the (1950s) FBI put Alan on a blacklist for being gay, which would make for a brave HBO series.
I wasn't a fan of making Alan Scott gay as a massive retcon throughout all of DC History, especially since he's one of the few heroes with an interesting and complex family life.
I still think it was a weird choice - but from what I've read about the relaunched JSA stuff, it sounds like it's a well-done story and I look forward to checking it out at some point.
I still think it was a weird choice - but from what I've read about the relaunched JSA stuff, it sounds like it's a well-done story and I look forward to checking it out at some point.
Yeah, as apparently the one person on Earth who was invested in Alan Scott and his wife Molly, the retcon really bugs me in a way things like Iceman don't. I guess I'm the only one who remembers/liked the Underworld Unleashed comic crossover in the 90s, which had one of the few stories that actively went into Alan's relationship with his wife. Basically the event had the villain Neron make deals with supervillains for their souls, giving them all kinds of weird abilities in exchange. Alan's subplot in the event involved his wife Molly, who had been a villain (well more of a bored thief, she wasn't a killer or anything) in the Golden Age named Harlequin. She hadn't committed any crimes in decades, but she sells her soul to neron when he makes an offer so that she can be young, which she does because she's scared about what will happen with her and Alan because his powers keep her a lot younger then her. Alan basically has to go to hell to get her soul back, even temporarily having to give up his soul for hers.
After that storyline, which I'll admit was probably long forgotten by anyone working at DC (except maybe Mark Waid who was, I think, the main writer of the event), it just feels shitty to throw away their relationship just because they wanted a gay character on the JSA, and originally not even the normal JSA but the New 52 Earth 2 version. They easily could have just made someone like Wildcat or Mr. Terrific gay, hell Michael Holt has a dead spouse which matches up with DC turning Alan's dead friend retroactively into a lover so he'd have fit perfectly. Basically I don't care that they added more diversity to the JSA, thats fine, I just hate that they chose Alan when there were a bunch of much better choices.
Alan used to be one of my favorite GL's, but at this point I'd put modern Alan Scott at the bottom of the list of Earth GL's.
After that storyline, which I'll admit was probably long forgotten by anyone working at DC (except maybe Mark Waid who was, I think, the main writer of the event), it just feels shitty to throw away their relationship just because they wanted a gay character on the JSA, and originally not even the normal JSA but the New 52 Earth 2 version. They easily could have just made someone like Wildcat or Mr. Terrific gay, hell Michael Holt has a dead spouse which matches up with DC turning Alan's dead friend retroactively into a lover so he'd have fit perfectly. Basically I don't care that they added more diversity to the JSA, thats fine, I just hate that they chose Alan when there were a bunch of much better choices.
Alan used to be one of my favorite GL's, but at this point I'd put modern Alan Scott at the bottom of the list of Earth GL's.
Not suitable for the role.
Here's what I know:
(1) I don't GAF about Green Lantern(s).
(2) My favorite comics writer by far is involved in this project.
(3) I have HBO anyways.
(4) I'll be watching.
(1) I don't GAF about Green Lantern(s).
(2) My favorite comics writer by far is involved in this project.
(3) I have HBO anyways.
(4) I'll be watching.
And what the Lantern itself looks like... not to mention what he has to do to get it started...
Honestly, I'm kind of sick of the same half-dozen actors being cast as multiple comic book characters. There are a lot of talented people out there who'd do a great job and we don't need to keep seeing the same faces (or hearing the same voices), playing these characters. It's a bit as if, back in the 70s, WB had decreed we needed Adam West to play Superman and Lynda Carter to play Lois Lane.
Also odd to make the one gay character the only superhero who has a weakness for.......wood.
(I'll see myself out now).
And the only made the Earth 2 version gay to make up for the fact that making him young would mean Obsidian - who already was gay - didn't exist anymore, and since the Earth 2 JSA were supposed to be the new "permanent" JSA in the New 52, it looked like Obsidian wasn't gonna be around. Then it just became convenient to keep him that way, I guess.
It's also worth noting that Alan was married to Rose and Thorn before Molly, who was actually Obsidian and Jade's mom.
He's still pretty iconic and the Starheart being unique gives him some extra cache in my opinion.
This is a really clear explanation for your feelings about this. I was surprised that me too, although I don't have the same strong reaction to it that you do. I just rolled with it when the first story appeared. It doesn't change Alan's history. He still loved Molly and had a love with her, it's just that, like many other gay men of his day, he lived most of his life in the closet not coming out until recently. DC could have done that story line with any other JSA character, but decide to go with Alan---I am going to guess it was because the Earth 2 Alan had already been established as gay.
I didn't know any of that. When was this explained?"
I didn't know this either. In fact, without having my old Best of DC digests to look back on right now, I have to say that I don't recall who his love interest was back in the 40s.
Is the Starheart from the All-Star Squadron story? Or is that something different?
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