They have not yet taken their place and James Gunn and Peter Safran already have to put out a fire between the next series of DC for HBO Max. Seth Grahame-Smith is stepping down as showrunner and completely disassociating himself from ‘Green Lantern’ drama that followed the ringed superheroes guardians of the universe.
According to THR, the screenwriter had completed the script for all eight episodes that would make up the first season when Warners have decided to rethink the premise of the series from scratch. Although the original idea was to tell the story of Alan Scott and Guy Gardner, now the center will be put on John Stewartone of DC’s first black superheroes.
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It should be clarified that this movement has not come from the office of Gunn and Saffron (which will start on November 1), but it is a movement that emerged after the departure of Walter Hamada of DC. Given these changes, Grahame-Smith decided to abandon the project led by Greg Berlanti.
This change of plans and protagonists means that neither Finn Wittrock nor Jeremy Irvine, who had signed on to play Gardner and Scott, respectively, are on board (at least for now).
The conversion of ‘Green Lantern’ It is also a consequence of the containment and saving measures that Warner Bros. Discovery is implementing. under the command of David Zaslav and who took ‘Batgirl’ ahead. In fact, the company announced that these “strategic programming evaluations” have allowed it to write off more than two billion dollars in the last quarter.