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Changes are coming to the development of HBO Max's Green Lantern. The project which has been in the works since late 2019, will now focus on John Stewart, one of DC’s first Black superheroes instead of Guy Gardner and Alan Scott. Finn Wittrock and Jeremy Irvine had already been cast as Green Lanterns, but have since been released from the project. Berlanti Productions is eager to work with both actors when and if the project, which currently has a script-to-series commitment, moves forward. Initially, producers had originally John Stewart out of the mix and wanted to focus on the first Green Lantern, the openly gay Alan Scott, Guy Gardner, and a “multitude of other Lanterns — from comic book favorites to never-before-seen heroes.” Original writer and showrunner Seth Grahame-Smith has departed the project after completing scripts for a full season of eight episodes. Grahame-Smith decided to leave the project after a number of regime changes at HBO Max, its parent company, producers Warner Bros. Television, and now DC Comics. This leaves Greg Berlanti and his Warner Bros. TV-based Berlanti Productions to remain attached to the project. The cost for the project was also a major concern as David Zaslav’s combined Warner Bros. Discovery will be significantly less than the cost which was estimated in the $120 million range. Source: The Hollywood Reporter

It's Wednesday and you know what that means: ToyFarce review! Today, we're having a look at the Blackest Night wave from the DC Multiverse line from McFarlane Toys, the Atrocitus "collect-to-build" figure, along with the Mega-Figure of the main villain from that storyline, Nekron. It's October, it's time to get spooky, and what better wave could we have a look at than a wave that has zombie superheroes? The Blackest Night was a great crossover event by DC Comics from 2009/2010, written by Geoff Johns and penciled by Ivan Reis, which introduced the Black Lantern Corps, whose rings reanimate the dead... Well, it is Halloween month, isn't it? Green Lantern Kyle Rayner comes with his lantern, a sword construct and Atrocitus' torso part. His suit design is a bit weird, as it is not at all the basic costume that comes to mind when thinking about Kyle Rayner, and even the green color on it seems a bit off. It's a solid figure, but I wish he came with more constructs as well. The living dead Batman comes with Atrocitus' arms. I used to love the DC Direct version of that figure, and it is a nice upgrade for it, with better articulations. The sculpt and details look awesome, and if I wanted to nitpick, I'd say the color of the skin around his mouth could have been 'greyer' to show a bit more that he's dead. A nice gnarly-looking zombie batman! Black Lantern Superman looks pretty disfigured as well. He comes with Atrocitus' legs. The details are amazing, with his flesh looking all rotten, and the cape being torn up. He could have come with a flight stand, but I used one I got from previous figures (a Superman too, even!). Aaaargh! Deathstorm, the dead version of Firestorm is the one with the best sculpt and details, which reminds me of the old Curse of the Spawn figures from many moons ago. He comes with Atrocitus' shoulder piece and head. The fire effect on his head is made of transparent grey plastic and looks amazing with different lights. Atrocitus, the leader and founder of the Red Lantern Corps (emotion: RAAAGE!) is a very descent build-a-figure (or 'Collect-to-build' figure). The legs are a bit long (a running gag in the DC Multiverse line), but the sculpt looks great and the bright red paint really catches the eye. I added a blood piece from SuperActionStuff for that nice (and worrying) blood cough that they do (They should still see a doctor for that, though...). Nekron is a deluxe, or "MEGA ACTION FIGURE", and comes with a huge box that is filled with air. Seriously, this box could have been half the size and the figure would have fit just fine. He comes with his scythe that has the black lantern embedded in it. Spooky! Great details, sculpt and paint. McFarlane Toys usually does well with big, monster looking figures and this is no exception. This would have looked just fine as a figure in a Spawn line as well. More news at 11:00... In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night,...

Continuing my McFarlane Super Powers collection (Because, I'm impatient and can't wait for Todd.) is Green Lantern Hal Jordan. Just a quick repaint of the John Stewart GL, with a repainted Superman head that was modified with apoxie sculpt. Hope you enjoy this, and leave feedback. More to come.

Writer and director Kevin Smith revealed on his Hollywood Babble-On podcast that the HBO Max project, DC's Strange Adventures had been axed following the Warner Bros. Discovery merger. Both Strange Adventures and a Green-Lantern-inspired series were given the green light for development in 2019. Green Lantern is still on track for development. Smith, who was going to direct and co-write an episode for the series said the episode was to have revolved around Bizarro and Jimmy Olsen. Strange Adventures shares its name with a classic DC Comics series that premiered in 1950 and broke new ground as the first science-fiction anthology title from the venerable publisher of Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman. The easy days of the series were dominated by vivid but outlandish fare with B-movie concepts (Challenge of the Gorilla Genius, The Man with the Comet Head, The Skyscraper That Came to Life). Still, the series eventually introduced a gallery of sci-fi adventure heroes (Space Ranger, Star Hawkins, and the Atomic Knights). The publishing history of Strange Adventures took a sharp turn after 200 monthly issues when it became more of a supernatural mystery-based franchise. Those 1960 issues included one of the most compelling DC characters of that era with the forlorn Deadman, the Neal Adams-created spectral hero who cannot be seen or heard but can possess the bodies of the living. Source: Deadline

It was Christmas in July as Warner Bros. Home Entertainment gave a gift, then tossed in a few surprises at 2022 Comic-Con International this past weekend. The initial gift -- the World Premiere of "Green Lantern: Beware My Power" -- came on Friday night as the enthusiastic Ballroom 20 audience was treated to the first public screening of the latest entry in the 15-year history of the DC Universe Movies. The screening was followed by an exciting, informative, and oftentimes funny panel discussion amongst actors Aldis Hodge (John Stewart/Green Lantern), Jimmi Simpson (Green Arrow), Jamie Gray Hyder (Hawkgirl), and Brian Bloom (Adam Strange) alongside the filmmaking quartet of executive producer Butch Lukic, director Jeff Wamester, and co-screenwriters John Semper Jr. & Ernie Altbacker. Publicist Gary Miereanu served as moderator. Among the many panel highlights was Aldis Hodge, the voice of John Stewart/Green Lantern in his first animated feature film starring role, surprising the crowd with an impromptu reciting of the Green Lantern Oath, delivered with impressive intensity and joy. During the later part of the panel discussion, WBHE reminded the crowd of the final DC Animated Movie coming this Fall -- "Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons" (10/18/22) -- and then rekindled its Comic-Con tradition of announcing its initial slate of DC Universe Movies and DC Animated Movies for the following year. With only names announced thus far, these film titles are coming in 2023: • Legion of Super-Heroes • Batman: The Doom That Came To Gotham • Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen, Part One • Justice League: Warworld The panelists in the "GLBMP - Panel - SDCC 2022" image: Front Row (left to right) - Gary Miereanu (moderator), Brian Bloom, Jamie Gray Hyder, John Semper Jr. & Aldis Hodge Back Row (left to right) - Ernie Altbacker, Jimmi Simpson, Jeff Wamester, Butch Lukic (Gary Miereanu photographed the three stills.)

Here's a quickie. Spinmaster 3.25" Hal Jordan. Just an easy repaint of the John Stewart figure. The lines are already in the mold for Hal's costume. ( I assume they are planning on making him at some point.) then added a repainted Superman head.

Director Lee Toland Krieger of The CW's 'Superman & Lois' and 'Riverdale' episodes will be directing the first two episodes of Green Lantern, HBO Max’s upcoming series based on the DC characters., from Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. Green Lantern reinvents the classic DC property through a story spanning decades and galaxies, beginning on Earth in 1941 with the very first Green Lantern, secretly gay FBI agent Alan Scott (Irvine), and 1984, with cocky alpha male Guy Gardner (Wittrock) and half-alien Bree Jarta. They’ll be joined by a multitude of other Lanterns — from comic book favorites to never-before-seen heroes. The series is being written by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Seth Grahame-Smith. Berlanti, Guggenheim and Grahame-Smith executive produce with Geoff Johns, Sarah Schechter, David Madden and David Katzenberg; Elizabeth Hunter and Sara Saedi co-executive produce.

According to Deadline, Jeremy Irvine is in talks to join Finn Wittrock in HBO Max’s upcoming Green Lantern series based on the DC characters. Irvine would play Alan Scott/Green Lantern opposite Wittrock’s Guy Gardner/Green Lantern. Green Lantern reinvents the classic DC property through a story spanning decades and galaxies, beginning on Earth in 1941 with the very first Green Lantern, secretly gay FBI agent Alan Scott (Irvine), and 1984, with cocky alpha male Guy Gardner (Wittrock) and half-alien Bree Jarta. They’ll be joined by a multitude of other Lanterns — from comic book favorites to never-before-seen heroes. The series is being written by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Seth Grahame-Smith. Berlanti, Guggenheim and Grahame-Smith executive produce with Geoff Johns, Sarah Schechter, David Madden and David Katzenberg; Elizabeth Hunter and Sara Saedi co-executive produce.

Deadline is reporting that Finn Wittrock has been tapped to star as Guy Gardner/Green Lantern in HBO Max’s upcoming series based on the DC characters. The series is being written by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Seth Grahame-Smith from Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. Green Lantern reinvents the classic DC property through 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 (Wittrock) and half-alien Bree Jarta. They’ll be joined by a multitude of other Lanterns — from comic book favorites to never-before-seen heroes. Wittrock’s Guy Gardner/Green Lantern is a hulking mass of masculinity, and, as rendered in the comics, an embodiment of 1980s hyper-patriotism. And yet, Guy is somehow likable. Berlanti, Guggenheim and Grahame-Smith will executive produce with Geoff Johns, Sarah Schechter, David Madden and David Katzenberg; Elizabeth Hunter and Sara Saedi will co-executive produce. Wittrock is credited with two Emmy nominations, for American Horror Story: Freak Show and for Versace: American Crime Story.

Shown below via plastik_poser we have new in-hand images for the DC Multiverse 7" John Stewart Green Lantern figure from McFarlane Toys. Even though the wave with this figure hasn't yet gone up for pre-order anyplace nor have we even gotten much in the way of official images for them, they are starting to hit Target stores out in CA. The other two figures in the wave which are also hitting shelves include Death Of The Family Nightwing and Bizarro Superman. You can see the UPC for the John Stewart figure in one of the images below.

Etailer Toy Wiz has leaked out a new wave of 7" DC Multiverse figures from McFarlane Toys which looks to include Death Of The Family Nightwing, Jon Stewart Green Lantern, Bizarro Superman and the unmasked Flashpoint Batman we had previously seen. These are being listed with an April 2021 release date.

Last October, we reported that Greg Berlanti (Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Titans, Doom Patrol) announced that a Green Lantern inspired series was in the works for HBO Max. It has taken almost a whole year but the series has finally found its writers and showrunner. The ten-part series based off the DC Comics book by the WarnerMedia streaming service will be written by Seth Grahame-Smith, writer of The Lego Batman Movie, and Marc Guggenheim, co-creator of Arrow and a writer on the 2011 Green Lantern movie. Grahame-Smith will showrun the series with Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros producing. The drama will depict the adventures of a multitude of Lanterns, including Guy Gardner, Jessica Cruz, Simon Baz and Alan Scott — Earth’s first Green Lantern, who, true to the comics, is a gay man — and many more. The series will also include fan favorites such as Sinestro and Kilowog, and will also introduce new heroes to the ranks of the Green Lantern Corps.

Finally he's out in stores!

These things are cool looking but have brittle inner groin connections.

From Mezco Toys. Intergalactic guardian of Sector 2814, Harold 'Hal' Jordan, is presented in his Green Lantern Corps uniform. Intricately detailed and featuring a 3D chest insignia, his fitted suit features wrist gauntlets, combat gloves, and mid-calf boots. Included is a real light-up Power Battery lantern as used by the Green Lantern Corps to recharge their power rings. Activate the light-up feature by placing the right fisted hand in the recess of the lantern. The One:12 Collective Hal Jordan features a One:12 Collective body that features 32 points of articulation and stands about 6.5" tall! He comes with eleven interchangeable hands that include smoke, star, shield blast and energy ball effects, plus two interchangeable heads and Power Battery with ring activated light-up function! Hal comes with a One:12 Collective display base with logo and adjustable display post for easy posing! Each One:12 Collective Hal Jordan figure is packaged in a collector friendly box, designed with fans in mind! You can pre-order this now at Megalopolis.Toys.

Intergalactic guardian of Sector 2814, John Stewart, is presented in his Green Lantern Corps uniform - intricately detailed and featuring a 3D chest insignia. Included is a real light-up Power Battery lantern as used by the Green Lantern Corps to recharge their power rings. Activate the light-up feature by placing the right fisted hand in the recess of the lantern. John Stewart - architect, U.S. Marine veteran, intergalactic guardian, and hero. After his service in the Marines, John Stewart was selected by the Guardians to be inducted into the Green Lantern Corps, bear the power ring, and protect Sector 2814 where his home planet, Earth, is located. An active member of the Justice League, Stewart stands along side the other great heroes of the DC Universe to uphold justice and protect his planet, sector, and fellow man against the powers of evil. Order Now at Big Bad Toy Store THE ONE:12 COLLECTIVE GREEN LANTERN FIGURE FEATURES: - One:12 Collective body with over 32 points of articulation - Two (2) head portraits - Hand painted authentic detailing - Approximately 17cm tall - Eleven (11) interchangeable hands - One (1) pair of fists (L&R) - One (1) pair of posing hands (L&R) - One (1) pair of flying hands (L&R) - One (1) lantern holding hand (L) - One (1) smoking ring effect hand (R) - One (1) star ring effect hand (R) - One (1) blast ring effect hand (R) - One (1) shield ring effect hand (R) COSTUME: - Fitted suit with 3D chest insignia - Wrist gauntlets - Combat gloves - Mid-calf boots ACCESSORIES: - Power Battery with ring activated light-up function - Energy Ball FX - One (1) One:12 Collective display base with logo - One (1) One:12 Collective adjustable display post Each One:12 Collective John Stewart – The Green Lantern figure is packaged in a collector friendly box, designed with collectors in mind.

A Diamond Select Toys release! In brightest day, in blackest night, no goodness shall escape his sight! The next member of the Dark Knights to join the DC Gallery line is the Bruce Wayne of Earth -32, the Dawnbreaker! Possessing a power ring and an all-consuming darkness, the Dawnbreaker floats above a cloud of green energy bats in this highly detailed PVC diorama. Sculpted in a 9-inch scale, the sculpture is in scale to all Gallery and Femme Fatales figures and comes packaged in a full-color window box. Designed by Caesar and sculpted by Alterton. You can pre-order this now at BigBadToyStore.com.