DCEU has been to the bottom of the oceans, to ancient Greek mythology, to the past and the future but now the DCEU is headed to space. Green Lantern Corps is coming to join the live-action DC universe. According to insider sources, Green Lantern Corps started shooting in L.A. sometime in April 2021. Green Lantern Corps is being produced by Greg Berlanti while writer Marc Guggenheim, known for CW’s Arrow, will team up with fellow writer Seth Graham-Smith, known for The Lego Batman Movie (2017), who will also serve as the showrunner.
So, who are main players in this 10 episode space-cop drama?
ALAN SCOTT
In the 1940s, Alan Scott is an FBI agent who becomes Earth’s first Green Lantern. He is the perfect Green Lantern who has spent his life trying to personify truth, justice, and the American way. But when he is not being a Green Lantern, he struggles with the pressure of being a public figure while hiding his homosexuality as he is secretly dating his coworker Michael.
GUY GARDNER, BREE JARTA & DOMINATORS
In the 1980s, a human-alien hybrid Bree Jarta, who grew up on her mother’s utopic home-world, is partnered with a rebellious Green Lantern Guy Gardner to investigate Dominator activity on Earth. The Dominators are a race of highly technologically advanced aliens with a society based around a rigid caste-based hierarchy. Being the master geneticists, they can enhance the meta-gene, a dormant gene that can induce superpowers in a human when activated through extraordinary physical and emotional stress.
Due to the color of her skin, Bree Jarta is subjected to racism at a restaurant in the south where she is refused service. Bree Jarta is deeply committed to her mission and fought hard to forget her human side. Despite her dedication, she is still undervalued by her superiors, hence her assignment to work with Guy Gardner on planet Earth. Guy Gardner is the personification of masculinity coupled with 1980’s hyper patriotism but underneath somewhere he hides deep pain. He has a wife and a daughter that he loves more than his life.
JESSICA CRUZ, SIMON BAZ & MANHUNTERS
In the 2020s, jaded veteran Jessica Cruz is assigned to train an optimistic recruit to Green Lantern Corps, Simon Baz. They help each other overcome their personal issues as they face off against the Manhunters, a race of extraterrestrial robots who were created by the Guardians of the Universe as a first attempt to create an interstellar police force that would combat evil all over the universe.
Jessica Cruz has been a Green Lantern for years and struggles with social anxiety from witnessing her friend’s deaths in a hiking trip gone wrong. She has a younger sister that she cares for. Simon Baz struggles with prejudice towards Muslims while working as a street vendor to support his family, and sees his recruitment into the Corps as an opportunity to turn his life around.
SINESTRO
Sinestro is the greatest of all Green Lanterns, a “warrior monk” who serves as the strategic commander of the Green Lantern Corps. Although, he is revered for his unmatched will and wisdom, “a darker destiny belies his otherwise Zen demeanor.” Comic book reader will know that Sinestro eventually abandons the Green Lantern Corps and forms his own Lantern Squad based on fear called the Yellow Lanterns.
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