Green Lantern: The Animated Series

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

A teaser poster for Green Lantern: The Animated Series has been revealed:

The series is expected to debut in fall 2011. Bruce Timm is Executive Producer, while Giancarlo Volpe, a regular director on Avatar: The Last Airbender and Star Wars: The Clone Wars, will serve as a series producer for the first time. Jim Krieg, who has worked on numerous animated shows over the years, rounds out the key creative trio as producer and story editor.

Some of the information passed along at the show's panel at New York Comic Con:

- The show will be straight-up science fiction mostly set in space. Earth won't feature much.

- Superman, Batman and other DC Universe characters won't appear. The show will be strictly about the GLC.

- Green Lanterns operating on the frontier are under threat from the Red Lanterns.

- The GLs will have space vehicles because of the enormity of distances they have to travel.

- They'll stay away from using Sinestro for a while because of his prominence in the live action film, but he'll be introduced later on.

- There will be both standalone episodes and an ongoing story arc.

- The show won't start from scratch with Hal Jordan's origin story.

- They've recorded five episodes so far. The animation is being done in Taiwan, while the toy line will be from Mattel.

- Characters appearing will include Hal Jordan, Carol Ferris, Kilowog, Atrocitus, Zilius Zox, Salaak, Ganthet, Appa Ali Apsa, and a new Green Lantern named Aya.

- Timm said The Incredibles was one of the inspirations for the style of animation they're using.

 

[doubleohfive]

I was just watching "Green Lantern: First Flight" last night and thinking to myself, GL would have been the perfect vehicle for an animated series. About ten years ago, someone had gone and made screen caps of all the times the GLC appeared in the Timm-verse and fabricated a website for the "Green Lantern" series that was never made, with episode titles, screen caps, voice cast, etc. It was completely pointless and not at all authentic but it was still neat to consider.

Definitely looking forward to this.

 

[Hound of UIster]

GL doesn't really have any outstanding antagonists outside of Sinestro and possibly Cyborg Superman who isn't really a GL villain despite his part in Emerald Twilight.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

GL doesn't really have any outstanding antagonists outside of Sinestro and possibly Cyborg Superman who isn't really a GL villain despite his part in Emerald Twilight.

Hector Hammond and Star Sapphire are his two other main supervillain foes. There's also the Tattooed Man, the Shark, and more recent villains like Atrocitus, the Red Lantern Corps, and Agent Orange. Plus you have the option of sci-fi antagonists - like the Spider Guild, the Weaponers of Qward, etc - instead of traditional supervillains. Plenty of antagonists to go around.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Glad someone posted this. I'm very much looking forward to this. I'm guessing that they're not going to touch on the origin because of "First Flight" and the movie will have already done that for people.

 

[Pilot Ace]

I'm intrigued. But, I'm immediately hating the animation style looking at the poster.

 

[Pilot Ace]

EDIT: Double.

 

[Mr Light]

I really did not care for Green Lantern before the Geoff Johns relaunch so I hope they use characters and stories prominently from that.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

It looks like they're concentrating on the Geoff Johns stuff since they're including the Red Lanterns and Atrocitus. Plus Bruce Timm was asked if they'll adapt "Blackest Night" and he said they will if the show runs for long enough.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Yeah I got a little excited when I read that line from him.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

More info:

- If "Blackest Night" is adapted it won't be until the fourth or fifth season.

- They're not too focused on adapting specific stories from the comics, but are more coming up with their own stuff, albeit drawing on the GL mythos.

- Pretty much all of DC's space villains will appear, with the exception of the Fourth World characters (Darkseid, etc).

- The first season storyline will involve a war on the frontier of GL space with the Red Lanterns. Frontier GLs are being killed off and Hal goes to investigate. The frontier GLs are likened to sheriffs in the Old West.

- The other Earth GLs won't appear, at least not at first.

- Other characters who will appear are Boodika, Tomar-Re, and Ch'p. They also winked when asked about Mogo.

- Sinestro is the only character currently under embargo. They're free to use anyone else.

- Jamie Thomason is the show's voice director. Among other things, he was voice director on Gargoyles and Spectacular Spider-Man. He's also the voice director of the Showcase shorts.

 

[Hound of UIster]

GL doesn't really have any outstanding antagonists outside of Sinestro and possibly Cyborg Superman who isn't really a GL villain despite his part in Emerald Twilight.

Hector Hammond and Star Sapphire are his two other main supervillain foes. There's also the Tattooed Man, the Shark, and more recent villains like Atrocitus, the Red Lantern Corps, and Agent Orange. Plus you have the option of sci-fi antagonists - like the Spider Guild, the Weaponers of Qward, etc - instead of traditional supervillains. Plenty of antagonists to go around.

None of them are very strong villains characterization wise.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

None of them are very strong villains characterization wise.

That depends on who's writing them.

 

[noahlandra]

I am looking forward for this Green Lantern. My big bro also interested with it. I hope he will enjoy too.

 

[theenglish]

This sounds really good. Can't wait.

 

[Bad Bishop]

More info:

- They're not too focused on adapting specific stories from the comics, but are more coming up with their own stuff, albeit drawing on the GL mythos.

This means we won't see Green Lantern and Green Arrow load up a pickup truck and drive across America, with Hal getting an education about hippies, drugs, pollution and racial oppression.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

It seems we have an even longer wait than expected: Bruce Timm said there'll be a preview of the show in late 2011 and then it'll start airing in the spring of 2012.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I'm guessing they'll show the pilot then the actual series in 2012. That's a little disappointing.

 

[Bad Bishop]

Off topic, but can anyone briefly talk about cartoon animation and its outsourcing to Asia? How long has that been going on?

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

Off topic, but can anyone briefly talk about cartoon animation and its outsourcing to Asia? How long has that been going on?

It goes back at least 20 years. Batman: The Animated Series was animated in Asia, for example. I don't know how far back it goes before that.