James Gunn Responds To Claim HBO Max's Green Lantern Series Has Been Axed - Deadline

James Gunn is clearing things up astir the destiny of HBO Max’s Green Lantern bid which has been successful improvement for years now.

After a work said that the amusement had been scrapped and would nary longer determination forward, the caller DC Studios co-head debunked the rumor and called it “fake.”

The Green Lantern bid has been successful improvement since 2019 with Arrow shaper Greg Berlanti down the project. In October of this year, it was reported that the absorption of the amusement had shifted. Originally, the bid would halfway connected Guy Gardner and Alan Scott, with Finn Wittrock and Jeremy Irvine successful the roles, respectively. However, the refocus would beryllium connected John Stewart, 1 of DC’s archetypal Black superheroes and 1 of the longest-serving Green Lanterns.

Green Lantern was confirmed to beryllium successful improvement backmost successful 2019 on with Strange Adventures. Berlanti touted the DC properties would beryllium creations for the streaming level “unlike thing seen connected television.”

“An anthology bid of cautionary tales acceptable successful a satellite wherever superpowers exist, and, successful what promises to beryllium our biggest DC amusement ever made, we volition beryllium going to abstraction with a Green Lantern tv series, but I can’t uncover immoderate much astir that conscionable yet,” Berlanti said astatine the time.

In August, it was revealed that Stranger Adventures would not beryllium moving forward astatine the streamer. Throughout 2022, HBO Max and DC person seen galore changes arsenic the Warner Bros. Discovery merger continues and caller co-heads of DC Studios Gunn and Peter Safran program retired a caller epoch for the DC Universe.