A Green Lantern TV show is in the works for HBO Max, along with an adaptation of DC Comics title Strange Adventures, both from Greg Berlanti, while Elizabeth Banks is producing new series DC Super Hero High. The DC Comics superhero Green Lantern was previously adapted to live-action in the 2011 movie starring Ryan Reynolds. However, the film was poorly received by critics and fans alike, stopping any potential franchise before it could even really get started.
A Green Lantern reboot was planned to be part of the unofficially titled DC Extended Universe, with Green Lantern Corps announced in 2014. However, that film is no longer part of Warner Bros. and DC Films' current movie slate, which includes the likes of Wonder Woman 1984, The Suicide Squad and Aquaman 2. On the TV side of things, the Arrowverse has dropped Green Lantern hints for years in regards to John Diggle, causing fans to speculate about a possible connection between him and the Green Lanterns. Now it appears the Green Lantern Corps movie project is taking a back seat while a new TV show is developed instead.
During the WarnerMedia Day presentation of upcoming streaming service HBO Max, HBO Max head of original content Sarah Aubrey and executive vice president of content acquisitions and strategy Michael Quigley introduced Berlanti to officially announce he is developing Green Lantern and Strange Adventures TV shows. Strange Adventures will be a DC anthology series, telling close-ended stories with characters in the DC canon. Details on the Green Lantern TV show are being kept under wraps. Further, Aubrey confirmed Banks is producing DC Super Hero High, about a group of students who will one day become superheroes attending a boarding school for gifted kids. Berlanti said of his projects:
Both of these original DC properties we’ll be creating for HBO Max will be unlike anything seen on television. An anthology series of cautionary tales set in a world where superpowers exist, and, in what promises to be our biggest DC show ever made, we will be going to space with a Green Lantern television series, but I can’t reveal any more about that just yet.
Although the Green Lantern series and Strange Adventures are being developed by Berlanti, it's unclear whether either will have any connection to the Arrowverse on The CW. The network has built up a whole universe of series that include Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Batwoman and Black Lightning - all of which will unite this year for the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover. Since Green Lantern and Strange Adventures will be on HBO Max, it's likely there won't be any cross-platform crossovers because they're much more difficult to pull off than crossovers between shows on the same network. It's not impossible, and fans may not want to rule it out just yet, it's just less likely.
It also remains to be seen what these HBO Max DC TV shows mean for the DC Universe streaming service, whose entire premise is bringing specifically DC Comics content to users. With Doom Patrol season 2 airing on HBO Max and DC Universe concurrently, it seems WarnerMedia is sharing some new DC content across platforms. There's been a great deal of speculation about whether DC Universe will be folded into HBO Max, but nothing has been confirmed as of yet. With the announcement of a Green Lantern series, Strange Adventures and DC Super Hero High, it seems HBO Max is breaking into the streaming game with the help of its own DC TV shows - shows that join a lineup of Max Originals spanning more genres and with a wider variety of audiences in mind than DC Universe.
Source: WarnerMedia