Fresh off the tiny Green Lantern appearances in
Zack Snyder’s Justice League wherein a couple of Lanterns get summarily murdered HBO Max has announced the first bit of casting for their upcoming
Green Lantern series. Finn Wittrock (
American Horror Story: Freak Show) will play Guy Gardner, a Lantern Deadline describes as “a hulking mass of masculinity, and, as rendered in the comics, an embodiment of 1980s hyper-patriotism. And yet, Guy is somehow likable.”
Didn’t we
just have a hyper-patriotic and masculine comic book character on a series? Not that he was even remotely likable.
This iteration of the magic-ring wielding superhero has been in the works since 2019, when it was announced that comic-adaptation mastermind Greg Berlanti was developing the series. Last year, HBO Max greenlit (it’s a term, okay, not a play on words!) a ten-episode series, with Seth Grahame-Smith (
Television has found its latest superhero with the help of American Horror Story star Finn Wittrock.
The 36-year-old actor has been cast as the lead in a new series based on comic book legend Green Lantern for streaming platform HBO Max.
He is the first name attached to the DC Comics adaptation, according to Deadline, as Guy Gardner, one of the many Green Lantern characters that will be featured in the big-budget drama.
American Superhero Story: Finn Wittrock, 36, has been cast on a new series based on comic book legend Green Lantern for streaming platform HBO Max. He is starring as Guy Gardner, one of the many Green Lantern characters that will be featured in the big-budget drama
Green Lantern
Finn Wittrock (American Horror Story) has been tapped to star as Guy Gardner/Green Lantern in HBO Max’s upcoming series based on the DC characters, from Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.
Written by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Seth Grahame-Smith, 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.
Green Lantern : Finn Wittrock to play Guy Gardner in HBO Max series
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Finn Wittrock will play a version of the DC Comics character Green Lantern in a new HBO Max series. File Photo by Christine Chew/UPI | License Photo
Finn Wittrock (L) and Sarah Roberts attend the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2018. File Photo by Christine Chew/UPI | License Photo
Finn Wittrock attends the Academy Awards in 2016. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Finn Wittrock attends the Palm Springs International Film Festival awards gala in 2016. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Finn Wittrock attends the New York premiere of The Big Short in 2015. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
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Their story also came with additional plot details, noting that the series “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.” Deadline also adds that Gardner is “a hulking mass of masculinity, and, as rendered in the comics, an embodiment of 1980s hyper-patriotism. And yet, Guy is somehow likable.” If you say so!