Penned by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, and Seth Grahame-Smith, HBO Max’s Green Lantern series will reinvent the classic comic book and tell a story “spanning decades and galaxies, beginning on Earth in 1941 with the very first Green Lantern, secretly gay FBI agent Alan Scott, and 1984, with cocky alpha male Guy Gardner and half-alien Bree Jarta. They’ll be joined by a multitude of other Lanterns — from comic book favorites to never-before-seen heroes.”
One of the stars of the Green Lantern series will be Finn Wittrock, who is set to play Guy Gardner, a Green Lantern who is described as a “hulking mass of masculinity and the embodiment of 1980s hyper-patriotism.” While speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Wittrock teased that the Green Lantern series won’t be your average superhero story.
It is really cool how sprawling a storyline it is. It’s pretty epic. It spans time and space and has something for everyone. It’s not your average superhero story.
Finn Wittrock added that he thinks fans “will be really, really pleasantly surprised” by the Green Lantern series. In regards to his character, Wittrock admits that Guy Gardner is quite the “polarizing figure” but that he also has a “heart of gold.” The series is also set to star Jeremy Irvine as Alan Scott, a closet gay FBI agent living on Earth in 1941. Production is expected to kick off late this year or early 2022, and Finn Wittrock says that unlike the 2011 movie, expanding the story into a series will give them the time and space to “really explore a lot of it on a big scale. I think it’s going to be a different animal.“