Thursday, October 24, 2024

Green Lantern and Speed Racer

 

John Stewart and Hal Jordan have both been cast for the HBO/MAX Lanterns series, filming should be underway soon.  It has been described as a True Detective-type series, but I hope that the more fantastical, space-related elements of the Green Lantern mythos aren't pushed too much into the background.  I also hope that Hal Jordan isn't killed off by the end of it, which I suspect may be the case given the age difference between the actors.

4 comments:

DucNguyen0131 said...

Good luck with this! How abut if DC/Marvel characters meet the characters of the 1970s Atlas/Seaboard? Like The Hulk/Brute, etc.

Ross said...

That's a group of characters I don't know much about. I never saw their comics on sale where I grew up and I was only vaguely aware of them.

Carycomic said...

Well, Speed obviously proved his innocence to the Black Racer, back @ STF #4177. But, one has to wonder if the crime he'd been framed for was to keep him out of this particular competition? And, if so, why? Just what are the stakes? Only by turning this apparent two-parter into a trilogy will we get any answers. :-)

As for GL on HBO? I wouldn't worry about Hal Jordan being killed off. If Marvel could violate their own protocols by restoring Bucky Barnes to life (in both the comics and the movies), would Warner Discovery be willing to do any less for Hal? I mean, even if your hunch proves right, the writers could always bring him back as the Spectre!

Carycomic said...

Atlas Comics was founded in the early 1970's by Martin Goodman (co-founder of Marvel when it was originally called Timely) as a sort of economic retaliation for the ousting of his son from the board of directors or whatever. Anyway, it attracted a lot of talented writers and artists (like Neal Adams and Steve Ditko) who were tired of their brain-children automatically becoming intellectual property of the Big Two (especially Marvel). Unfortunately, artistic differences and unpredictable distribution schedules caused it to go under before 1976.* Fear not, though: Martin Goodman's grandson has revived that cult-classic comics line with his "Atlas Unified" universe.

*Holy Image Comics, Batman!

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