This will be the first chance a much larger audience will get to explore who these Lanterns are, instead of just what their rings do. It’s an opportunity to really get to know John Stewart and Hal Jordan, in a way that perhaps only comic book fans could in the past. Zack Snyder’s Justice League: Green Lantern shines in official look at Wayne T. So what we might see is a pair of Lanterns, not necessarily green, getting into a gritty case, and really exploring the “policing” side of their characters, instead of just getting into big CGI battles. pushed Snyder to remove the character from the final cut to save him for future DC film projects. Carr in the Snyder Cut reshoots, but Warner Bros. The character was played by actor Wayne T. Stewart is likely being saved for either the Green Lantern Corps movie or HBO Max’s GL series from Greg Berlanti. Old-school Green Lantern fans might not like this, but it could reinvent the character at a time when the DCU is reinventing itself. Zack Snyder has revealed an actual look at what John Stewart’s Green Lantern looked like in his cut Justice League scene. The Earth One comic has a lot to do with space, so Lanterns might bring us an entirely new perspective on what we thought we knew about the Lantern Corps. This is an interesting choice given that Green Lanterns are almost always seen flying through space and fighting aliens. Carr even went so far as to film the ending. Carr to play Stewart in the crossover movie's original ending. Second, James Gunn promised to take these traditionally interplanetary heroes and tell their stories on a terrestrial level. During the production of Justice League, Zack Snyder had brought in actor Wayne T. Related: DCU: How The Flash Could Change the Future of the DCU Although Alan Scott was the first Green Lantern, and Kyle Rayner might have been the strongest Green Lantern, John Stewart is still a fan favorite for a lot of people. Carr being filmed, and then cut, from Zack Snyder’s Justice League. John Stewart is one of DC Comic’s proudest heroes, and while he’s been well-represented in a lot of animation, this may be the first time we get to see an actor play Green Lantern in live-action - barring Wayne T. DC was going to name him “Lincoln Washington” but artist Neal Adams resisted giving his hero a moniker that had historically been a slave name. His name “John Stewart” was seen as a powerful statement for Black equality at the time. Although Stewart wouldn’t become a Green Lantern until more than a decade later, he was DC’s first major recurring Black character. Black Lightning was the first African-American hero with his own comic book, but John Stewart’s character was introduced years before him. Stewart is also one of DC’s first Black superheroes. TwitterĪnd Carr, who has used the #RestoreTheSnyderverse hashtag a number of times in recent weeks, shared his own on-set image as well.Related: DCU's The Brave and the Bold: What Kind of Batman Will We See? Still, at least one scene was shot and the news of such got some Snyder fans up in arms when another actor was cast to play Green Lantern this week.Īnd as CBR pointed out, Snyder shared a behind-the-scenes image of Carr doing a scene that was later cut from the film a day after that news started to circulate. And despite revealing that much in the aftermath of his four-hour epic Zack Snyder’s Justice League hitting HBO Max, DC had Martian Manhunter appear in the film rather than Carr’s Green Lantern. In fact, he cast the role of John Stewart, played by Wayne T. Snyder already had his preference of Green Lantern picked out for Justice League. Perhaps that’s why on the same week DC announced the next version of the intergalactic character we see new details about what could have been for his sprawling vision for Justice League. We already know there’s a new Green Lantern coming to the DC Universe, but we also know that it’s not the character that Zack Snyder had picked out for the universe if he were in charge.
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