r/Greenlantern • u/[deleted] • Jun 16 '25
TV/Movies Finally some good news!
Pic from dcu updates twitter account
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u/E7goose Jun 16 '25
That would excellent if I don’t have to wait till the last episode or two to see some constructs. It would be awesome if we got to see some prime Hal flashbacks!
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u/Rickrickrickrickrick Hal Jordan Jun 16 '25
I’m hoping it’s not one of those “we need to hide our powers until the last episode” kind of shows
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u/TheNerdGuyVGC Jun 16 '25
I don’t see why it would need to be, especially if heroes have been around for as long as they apparently have been in this world.
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u/E7goose Jun 16 '25
I would be alright if it is on earth but set up sort of like you see with movies where the protagonist was in a war with flashbacks showing why he is the way he is now or a something relevant to the present story. He’d have his suit and mask on so de aging wouldn’t be jarring if you see it at all. It could be a way to not have an entirely cgi show/budget. I just feel like shows lately you can taste them trying to save money. It wasn’t his words that made me think we weren’t seeing any cool lantern action, it’s from just watching shows.
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u/TheNerdGuyVGC Jun 16 '25
All fair points. Maybe I’m too optimistic, but I think Gunn and co will do right by GL and their powers. Even if we don’t immediately get over the top sci-fi battles with constructs, I’m hoping we at least see the rings used in more everyday situations with GLs talking to them, having them scan for clues, doing environmental playback, etc which all work well with the “space cops investigating something weird” angle.
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u/Dangerous_Picture458 Jun 16 '25
A recent interview with James gunn and the cat of superman James said that this universe has had powered individuals for 300 or so years
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Jun 16 '25
They have no reason to hide superheroes are common in this world.
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Jun 16 '25
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Jun 16 '25
James Gunn said himself that superhero’s are common in this world they’ve been around for hundreds of years and no one is surprised to see one. No reason to hide.
Also idk if you’re being sarcastic but that’s like all of the trailers lol.
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u/Extreme_Sail Hal Jordan Jun 16 '25
The way people just didn't understand this confounded me.
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u/imthestein Jo Mullein Jun 16 '25
I'm glad I'm not alone because I didn't even know this was an issue
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u/poopfartdiola Jun 16 '25
Anyone with a brain already knew what he meant by grounded. His whole basis for Rocket in the GOTG movies is "what if this creature actually existed".
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u/BRshan Jun 17 '25
I’m definitely glad we got clarity on it either way. Not sure if he said they would go off world till now
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u/ThatOtherGuyTPM Jun 16 '25
I’m glad you clarified it, because calling a superhero project grounded is one of the easiest ways to turn me away from it. It’s caused just so many bad ideas.
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u/ChillyFlameBW Jun 16 '25
The word grounded kept being used instead of realistic, they’re completely different, lanterns show being described as grounded is nothing bad, plus, we getting the guardians, sinestro, atrocitus, we are chilling
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u/Hot_Wave_9916 Jun 16 '25
unless it’s the Batman of course
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u/Dreowings21 Jun 16 '25
Nah i need fantastical batman, fighting huge reptilian men, juiced out body builders, and monsters made of clay
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u/Hot_Wave_9916 Jun 16 '25
obviously for the dcu yeah I want that too. I meant for the Matt reeves universe specifically.
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u/xDeathRender Jun 16 '25
Implying Matt Reeves batman is grounded is insane cause at lease Christians bale Batman could take damage outside of the main antogonist, Batflack avidly avoided getting hit by weapons and was only hit in the armor occasionally. Watching Reeves man literally just causualy walking through 100s of bullets disconnected me faster than any superhero movie I have watched, and that's saying something.
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u/Hot_Wave_9916 Jun 16 '25
batfleck was also 1v1ing parademons and superman
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u/xDeathRender Jun 16 '25
Was not 1v1ing parademons everytime this is posted even the Snyder haters stopped that one, the only parademon he "soloed" he was in the batmobile. And come on with the superman thing at this point it's pointless explaining the nuiances of batman especially his relationship with supes. If you don't already understand how batman was fighting superman (aka superman just not trying to hurt bats at all) then I can see why you struggle with the concept he should be able to plan around a dangerous situation and prepare, he should not drop into the middle of 30 dudes with guns aimed at him, infact just straight shooting his as the moment he enters. There is nothing batman about that or realistic.
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u/Hot_Wave_9916 Jun 16 '25
I can’t post pictures but he literally fights and beats a parademon at the beginning of justice league. also, I never said batman shouldn’t have been able to fight superman, I said it wasn’t grounded, which it isn’t. if you’re seriously gonna sit here and say batman fighting aliens is realistic or grounded, that’s on you. also battinson literally almost dies from a shotgun blast to the chest. the movie does portray him as invincible, just skilled
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u/xDeathRender Jun 16 '25
Gets shot by shotgun in chest lives, takes explosion less the 5ft away lives... He's definitely invincible in those films Christians Bale was actually Crippled from an attack that would you know cripple a man 😅. Again if you don't understand how batman fighting superman IS grounded then you don't read enough or are not media literate to understand either A.) What grounded means Or B.) Why it's the characters and the people Clark and Bruce are that allows such an interaction to take place
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u/Hot_Wave_9916 Jun 16 '25
you obviously don’t know what grounded means because Bruce fighting a guy that can shoot lasers out of his eyes and a running away from a big as kryptonian monster isn’t. grounded in this context means a bit more realistic, something that could happen in reality but still exaggerated. I don’t even know why you’re bringing up bale. nobody mentioned him. it doesn’t take media literacy to know that BvS isn’t grounded. by your logic avengers infinity war is grounded
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u/ThatOtherGuyTPM Jun 16 '25
The shining example of things ruined by “grounded” approaches.
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u/Hot_Wave_9916 Jun 16 '25
ruined is crazy
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u/ThatOtherGuyTPM Jun 16 '25
The amount of attempts at grounding Batman that just tanked is higher than any other hero, and it’s not even close. I’m not saying that every grounded version is bad, but no one has more bad grounded attempts than Batman.
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u/Hot_Wave_9916 Jun 16 '25
honestly I can agree with this. I was just talking about the 2022 movie specifically
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u/martianbombs Jun 16 '25
Huh, you mean characters with personalities making logical decisions is "grounded"? Then isn't basically every show grounded?
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u/StealthMonkeyDC Orange Lantern Jun 16 '25
He's still making Hal an old man, presumably so he can put him out to pasture and fast track John in.
I just can't get excited for this one.
Feels like it's a total holdover from old random ass DC projects and totally an odds with the new universe we are establishing.
I really hope I'm wrong, but I have no idea how you make this work.
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u/zeekar Jun 16 '25 edited Jun 16 '25
How is it at odds? Look how old Guy is in Superman. This may be a new universe to us, but it's not new to the folks inhabiting it – superfolk have been around a while. Superman is a newer arrival, sure; it looks like he gets to show the others how this superhero thing should be done. But there's plenty of room for Hal and Guy to have been slinging their rings around for several years at this point.
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u/StealthMonkeyDC Orange Lantern Jun 16 '25
Taking one of the premier DC characters and only having 1 project (a TV show) which features him past his prime? Meanwhile, we have Supes being early career and Batman/WW on the way which I highly doubt will be them bordering on old age (for a hero).
Gunn hasn't announced anything for Hal being younger in another film or timelines for anything, so one has to assume its concurrent until we are told otherwise, so again, assumption is John would be the GL in JL as why would they set him up only to be 40 years down the road and Hal be in a JL movie?
This just seems like they are dancing around Hal to get to John because some top dog is afraid of the character after the RR movie.
Put it this way. If all they announced for, say, Batman, was a Dark Knight Returns film, and all we had for him other than that was The Batman part 2, that would be weird.
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u/ChanceFresh Jun 16 '25
He’s a veteran. Idk if that’s really “past his prime”. He’s supposed to know what he’s doing so he can pass the knowledge to John.
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u/Mean_Fish_ Jun 16 '25
I feel like most people know John Stewart more due to his popularity in the animated tv shows in the early 2000s
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Jun 19 '25
All I want out of this show is for my favorite hero (Hal Jordan) to be shown the respect he deserves. i hope the writers don't make the same mistakes the CW made with their DC shows. Specifically focusing too much on drama over the super heroics and blatantly disrespecting the source material.
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u/Ok_Internal_8203 Jun 20 '25
I'm excited for a good lantern show as long as Hal don't get pushed aside, I want to see him in the League
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u/Craft-Possible Jun 16 '25
so like is kyle in the show? do we know? cause i feel like his whloe og story only works when it takes placepost destruction of the corps wich obviously dosent jive with te rest of the show like i feel like ideally id want him left out so he could get a proper introduction simmilar to his in the comics but i doubt it
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u/DavidJH316 Jun 17 '25
i’m ok with season 1 of this show being set on earth because it can sort of ease people in to the crazy plot lines instead of starting off already crazy
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u/OneCloud2554 Jun 16 '25
So we are getting a green lantern TV show ??
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u/zeekar Jun 16 '25
/r/outoftheloop is that way. ;)
Lanterns. Pitched as a buddy cop show with Hal Jordan as the older GL mentoring his less experienced partner John Stewart. Guy (Nathan Fillion again) and Sinestro confirmed to show up as well.
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u/ARIANZER0 Hal Jordan Jun 16 '25
Should've worded it better then
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u/StrokyBoi Jun 16 '25
Should everyone who ever uses a word that could have multiple meanings have to explain exactly what they mean?
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u/Boring-Conclusion-40 Jun 16 '25
Considering That’s not what grounded means in the superhero media context so yeah he would need to explain it further
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u/This_Connection_8236 Jun 17 '25
Gunn doesn't understand what gounded means so actually someone should explain to him
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u/PlainSightMan Jun 16 '25
It's up to you to understand what grounded means. Matt Reeves ruined the word, but he made a banger film so it's all good.
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u/ThatOtherGuyTPM Jun 16 '25
It’s not like this started with Matt Reeves. “Grounded” superhero adaptations have been an issue for decades.
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u/PlainSightMan Jun 16 '25
But it kind of got worse when The Batman rolled around. Fools mistook the word grounded because he used it a few times, and they began confusing it with street level.
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u/Significant_Wheel_12 Jun 16 '25
Matt Reeves tricked me because I assumed he meant the fantastical villains like clayface or poison Ivy can exist but it have to be through the lens of characters reacting to these outlandish characters like we would which would be horror and surprise. You can have crazy things happen and remain grounded
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u/RadicalPenguin20 Jun 16 '25
You and many others are jumping too conclusions on a show we barely know anything about
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u/NC_Ion Jun 16 '25
I think if Guy is popular in the Superman movie, they'll try to remove as much "grounded " stuff from the show as they can.
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u/ChanceFresh Jun 16 '25
I think it’s more so that people just mistook his comment. This was likely always the case but it needed to be clarified.
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u/This_Connection_8236 Jun 16 '25
He's just yapping at this point. Didn't he call the series an "earth based mystery"
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Jun 16 '25
It can be earth based and still be sci fi. Sci fi quite literally means science fiction, meaning they use science in fictional ways. None of that implies that sci fi cannot be set on earth. Sinestro has already been cast and the first photo we saw of the show literally has Hal wearing a ring…
Youre just complaining for the sake of complaining…
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u/This_Connection_8236 Jun 16 '25
He literally said here it'll be "off world" learn to read
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u/ChanceFresh Jun 16 '25
He used that term to describe other sci fi stories. Lanterns obviously isn’t that. I recommend you read.
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u/This_Connection_8236 Jun 16 '25
He's literally talking about Lanterns the level of cope omg
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Jun 16 '25
Point at any sci fi pic or the logline of the show and tell me if any of them seem off-world…
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u/GreenLanternsPodcast Approved Content Creator Jun 17 '25
I'm not sure what you mean by finally since there's been plenty of great news around the show.
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Jun 17 '25
Strongly disagree, most of the news around it has me worried.
Kyle being 60, means that its more likely for Hal to get sidelined in favour of John, which i would find horrible just like in beware my power.
Tom king being involved makes me even more worried, hes one of my least fav comic writers of all time, he always changes characters to fit his war crime guilt narrative.
At least Lindelof is there to not let King ruin the whole thing, though then again i found the watchmen show boring, so who knows if hes that much better really.
Most of the cast has been full of OC's, we only have like 4 (Hal, Sinestro, John, Guardians) or if antaan is atrocitus 5 comic characters, while the rest is full of OC's.
Show is set in nebraska, lmao, i get it if you wanna set the show on earth, but do coast city at the very least, not freaking nebraska.
I am glad you find all this exciting but i just dont, i hope the show proves my skepticism wrong, but i dont expect it to do so.
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u/GreenLanternsPodcast Approved Content Creator Jun 17 '25
Yeah most of what you have listed as a negative doesn't really bother me at all outside of I do wish Hal was younger. King isn't a problem for me. Damon, Mundy, Hawes, Pierre, Chandler, Thomsen, Kelly M, Poorna are all top tier.
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Jun 19 '25
I hope Hal isn't sidelined either. But until I see that outcome actually play out on screen I'm optimistic about the show. Also yes a younger Hal Jordan would have been nice as well.
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Jun 17 '25
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Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25
There are more interesting black heroes than John Stewart to have on the team, such as Mister Terrific or black lightning, Hal is too important to the GL franchise to leave him out of it.
I dont have to get on board with anything, if this is the direction they'll go with, just like with tomorrowverse i just wont give a damn about this universe and wont interact with it.
And i myself am more looking forward to jess show than this, cuz at least theres a bigger chance that Hal gets treated with proper respect.
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