The HBO Max Green Lantern series continues to develop with this bit of casting news from the Illuminerdi. The superhero/space cop show is close to signing Jeremy Irvine (War Horse, Mama Mia! Here We Go Again) to slip on the ring of Earth’s first Green Lantern, Alan Scott. This hasn’t been confirmed yet. As the series nears the beginning of filming, this and future official casting news should come soon.
This news follows the confirmed announcement that Finn Wittrock (American Horror Story) will be playing hot-headed Green Lantern Guy Gardner. Scott and Gardner are just two of the Lanterns featured in the new series. We can also expect casting news soon about the roles of Green Lanterns Jessica Cruz, Simon Baz, and original to the series GL, the half-human/half-alien Bree Jarta. Alien Lanterns already confirmed for the series include Sinestro and Kilowog.
Green Lantern of Earth-Two
For those that don’t know, Alan Scott was the Green Lantern in the 1940s and a member of the Justice Society of America. Created by Martin Nodell and Bill Finger, he first appeared in All American Comics #16. As such, Scott’s history is very different from the Lanterns who came after him. He did not receive his ring from the Guardians of the Universe. Rather, he found his Lantern after nearly being killed in a train accident. Powered by magic, rather than the super-science of the Green Lantern Corps, his only weakness was to wood.
With Scott’s role being set in the 1940s and Gardner in the 1980s, the series will have a lot of history to cover. No word yet what era Baz and Cruz’s will be set in. The most famous Lanterns, Hal Jordan, John Stewart, and Kyle Rayner, don’t seem to be in the plans of the show. Whether they will exist, but not in the times the show will take place in or not at all, has yet to be made clear. Jordan and Stewart, however, figure in Warner Brothers’ plan for a new the Green Lantern Corps feature film.