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“In brightest day, in blackest night, No evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil’s might Beware my power–Green Lantern’s light!”
So wrote Golden Age Green Lantern scribe Alfred Bester, after being tasked with his bosses at DC (known in the early part of the 1940’s as ‘National’) to create a new oath for their caped and masked mystery-man known as The Green Lantern, A.K.A. part-time radio announcer Alan Scott, a character created by Martin Nodell and Bill Finger. This change in oath was but one of many which the concept of the Green Lantern character would undergo as the decades marched on. Succeeding Alan Scott as the Lantern of the 1950s through the early 1990s was hot-shot fighter pilot Hal Jordan, quickly followed by other GL’s such as John Stewart, Guy Gardner, Kyle Rayner, etc. Though the key person wearing the green domino mask changed frequently through the years, the one constant was that of a superhero protecting innocents with their ‘power ring’ which ran from a battery and which needed to be recharged every 24 hours, lest its crime-busting prowess dwindled in potency. From such magical and childlike origins do huge legacies spring forth, both in comics and in other forms of media such as television, film and video games.
It’s the former that we’re going to concern ourselves with today, as the news has just broken from our Comic Cavalcade pals over at The Hollywood Reporter that Damon Lindelof, writer and co-creator of the seminal television series Lost, has been tasked with helping to bring the four-colored adventures of comic book character Green Lantern to a boob tube near you.
Lanterns will be a new live-action series from DC Studios and will see those monthly twenty-two page comics which feature the Green Lantern translated to television. Joining Lindelof on this high-flying adventure are fellow creative gremlins and wordsmiths Tom King and Chris Mundy. The news was officially announced by one of the Grand Poobahs of the revamped DCCU, James Gunn.
In his Instagram announcement of the new Lantern series, Gunn promised a “wonderful” premiere script and show bible and proclaimed that the in-development series is currently “putting together a crack team of writers.”
Lanterns is meant to be a big endeavor for the new DCCU. “This plays a really big role in leading into the main story we are telling across film and TV,” Gunn cohort Peter Safran promised of the series back in January.
As for what the series is exactly about, it’s intended to be a down-to-earth approach to a franchise which, at least in the comics of the last couple of decades, has been decidedly cosmos/outer-space heavy. Sources indicate a True Detective-like approach to the material in Lanterns.
The addition of Lindelof to the writing room for Lanterns is a good sign: His work on Lost and his adaptation of Watchmen for HBO are both high-water marks in the annals of television, and we’re sure that some of that same magic will filter down to his work in the new series.
No official release date for Lanterns has been announced as of yet.
Stay tuned to Vents Magazine for any and all updates on the upcoming Lanterns television series!
