HBO Max’s Green Lantern Series Being Redeveloped 255x2y Original Writer Seth Grahame-Smith Steps Down: Report

This is executive producer Greg Berlanti’s second attempt at the DC Comics character, following the 2011 Ryan Reynolds-led movie. 1f646m

Written by Rahul Chettiyar, Edited by Siddharth Suvarna | Updated: 27 October 2022 19:08 IST

HBO Max’s Green Lantern Series Being Redeveloped, Original Writer Seth Grahame-Smith Steps Down: Report

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The reworked Green Lantern series will focus on the John Stewart version

Highlights

The original series was aimed at Guy Gardner and Alan Scott
Showrunner Seth Grahame-Smith wrote 8 episodes of the original show
Production budget will be significantly less than $120 million

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HBO Max's long-gestating Green Lantern series is reportedly undergoing a creative overhaul. As per The Hollywood Reporter, the Greg Berlanti-helmed drama series has lost its writer and showrunner Seth Grahame-Smith, amidst shakeups in the Warner Bros. Discovery offices. Furthermore, the 2019-announced series will no longer focus on the openly gay Green Lantern member Guy Gardner or the first to put on the ring, Alan Scott. Instead, the HBO Max series will be based on John Stewart, who first appeared in the 1970s DC comic books.

According to Zack Snyder's Justice League, but was ultimately cut from the film.

The HBO Max then announced a Green Lantern series in 2019, with Berlanti describing it as the “biggest DC show ever made,” with plans to take the characters into outer space. THR's sources noted that the budget in the $120 million (about Rs 990 crore) range.

In comparison, HBO Max's recently ended first season of J.J. Abrams' original series Demimonde.

“WBD said in an SEC filing this week that it expects to take $2 billion to $2.5 billion in tax write-downs related to content. The eight previously completed Green Lantern scripts are expected to be included in those tax write-downs as sources maintain it wasn't Grahame-Smith's creative that ultimately doomed the first incarnation of the show but rather its price tag,” it reads.

THR also notes that Green Lantern's creative shift is unrelated to director Guardians of the Galaxy filmmaker exclusive to DC.

The move comes in the wake of WBD CEO Man of Steel sequel.

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