I saw a very rough cut of the first 2 episodes of lanterns and here’s what I know:

It’s very dark and gritty, feels like True detective at home. They deal with domestic disputes, etc. tension is real.

John stewart’s origin isn’t shown in the 2 episodes, but he’s still a rookie.

Hal has been at it for a while, and gives off that grizzled vet energy. He’s also a fucking asshole.

Mystery is about who killed a local politician. Alot of evidence starts to point to synestro but they don’t wanna believe it. John stewart keeps digging into the conspiracy, but Hal doesn’t wanna believe it.

Kilowog is also there, but the cgi isn’t done so IDK if he’ll look good. He’s a genius level scientist.

There’s a sex scene, with full nudity.


Really excited to see how this goes.

>>149026201 (OP)
Does it make any indication why these aliens are drawn to earth or are there scenes or flashbacks set in space?

>>149026201 (OP)
Sounds like pure garbage. I hope it's true because DC continuing to fail is more enjoyable than if they made anything good.

>>149026287
You're a sad person

OP is full of shit

>>149026201 (OP)
Yep, sounds like something Tom King would make.

>>149026287
id like to disagree but youre right, after seeing some of the shit theyve pushed out ive lost any ounce of faith i had left.

> I know! We'll turn Bowser into an 1980's business man that way we'll save money on special effects!

>>149026201 (OP)
Do they make giant boxing gloves?

>>149026262
No. It gives subtle nods to the lore, they talk about larfleeze and dex star, the guardians etc. hal tells John mafia style “you took an oath”. I also won’t answer any more questions.

>>149026340
>I also won’t answer any more questions.
Because you suck at improv

>>149026201 (OP)
>lets make a story of multicolored space cops with the power of imagination into a gritty edgy drama where characters are unlikable and mean to each other
This is probably gonna air close to the “my adventures with green lantern” show and the stark difference is gonna be like my adventures with superman and snyderverse. This is not gonna bode well for Gunn.

>>149026339
no, john stewart carries a gun though

>>149026379
Do they ever use their rings to make constructs? If so, what type of constructs?

I am not answering anymore questions.

>>149026201 (OP)
>Sinestro
>giving a shit about Earth politicians
Fake.

>>149026445
thats the thing anon, the only construct is his 9mm berreta

>dark and gritty
The main characters literally glow this is gonna be worse than the Reynolds movie im calling it

>>149026201 (OP)
Were there any power-ring cgi?

>>149026201 (OP)
What the fuck is True Detective? Sounds like one of those reality TV shows where they spend 30 minutes talking about a crime that could have been summed up in 3.

>>149028111
Have you been living under a fucking rock?

>>149028111
its about a police detective who can sense crime with his deductive/detection skills, and then he starts shooting at god.

>>149026201 (OP)
I thought the Green Lanterns were supposed to be space cops that fought aliens and monsters and shit.

>>149028226
oh it was, but now its about gay romance and being a depressed girl and a black cop just tryna do right in a wyte man world.

>>149028241
Who is the target audience for this? Who is this supposed to appeal to?

>>149028334
anyone but you, someone who probably enjoys green lantern.

>>149028226
it was in the past

>>149028334
People who ars ashamed of comic books and would rather watch a bad ripoff True Detective or Ozark

>green lanterns?

even in the 70s that shit would have been the least faithful adaptation around

>earthbound cosmic characters

>>149026371
So you object to it actually being something general audiences would enjoy instead of generic color wank in space

>>149028680
if it was guy being a cop and fucking around on earth shortly after he gets his wring or something i could forgive it, but youre definitely correct. why make a fucking alien show ON EARTH

>>149026842
>The main characters literally glow
so does the writer

This sounds like classic Tom king. Not surprised

>>149028737
will is my power to get up at the first alarm. thats what will is, and i dont fucking work.
its also a name.

>>149026201 (OP)
>>149026262
>>149026371
>>149028111
>>149028226
>>149028334
>>149028680
>>149028726
Fron what I understand from interviews, the premise of the Lanterns show is that the Lantern Corps investigating a murder out in the boonies that's loosely connected to the organization, only to uncover a "terrifying mystery" that continually escalates until it culminates in Hal and Jon uncovering an "eldritch threat" that will affect the larger DCU and reveal the main villain of Phase 1.

So it's basically "True Detective but the Lovecraft stuff was actually real and not just Matthew McConaughey tripping balls". Interesting premise but very curious choice for a Green Lantern storyline, feels more like Constantine's thing.

>>149028824
>So it's basically "True Detective
yeah you can keep fucking say that over and over. it doesnt mean shit when true detective is fucking god awful aside from s1 and collin farrel

You guys are not actually buying OP are you?
>>149028824
Watch they're building up to Blackest Night and Nekron. Maybe that's what Gunn meant by the "when you're dead, you're dead" comment

>>149026201 (OP)
>He’s also a fucking asshole.
Forced Reddit swearing

>>149028872
fuck off you fucking fuckety fuck fucker.

>>149026201 (OP)
Holy FUCK this sounds garbage, Gunn played it too safe and even IF this isn’t the plot we still know for sure it’s gonna be grounded and earth based, they probably will be in human clothes most of the time

>>149028848
When people offhandedly say True Detective in a positive way, they universally mean the first season

>>149028905
why not a green lantern movie in gunn's style, and a Martian Manhunter detective movie instead?
weird

>>149028858
I dunno, it definitely sounds like the type of shit would make and everyone but actual fans would praise.

>>149028947
*detective show

>>149028858
I dunno, it definitely sounds like the type of shit Tom King would make, and everyone but actual GL fans would praise.

>>149028824
It's going to be so funny when Superman doesn't perform well enough to justify having a cinematic universe with dozens of interconnected stories. Most of these "Phase 1" projects are going to get scrapped or are going to change to standalone stories.

>>149028972
i bet the excuse is some shit about alt right trolls not liking superman being cock eyed or the engineer being barely a fucking character or version of the actual engineer.

>>149028737
This is the same guy writing this show btw

>>149028989
Right, because the general audiences care about the Engineer so much

>>149028972
Cope and seethe. Superman is gonna assfuck fantastic four and make 1.5 billion easily.

>>149029007
>another super smart hacker with no powers whos also a bisexual mexican.black woman
dont act dumb anon, it doesnt suit you.

Oh WOW! Hopefully this starts a trend of production friendly superhero shows! How about a Spider-Man drama where he has to solve a murder in his apartment complex? 2 minutes of Peter in his costume( just enough for tailer footage), 1 hour devoted to the A plot, and 7 hours of flashback filler about the lives of the possible killers (boring normies created for the show and not from the comics)!

>>149029075
Take your pills and call your mother, anon

>>149029104
>How about a Spider-Man drama where he has to solve a murder in his apartment complex?
they ARE making Spider-Noir

>>149029132
think you messaged the wrong person buddy

>>149028947
>a green lantern movie in gunn's style
That would honestly fit way better than letting King do his bullshit, Hal in particular seems like the type of character that Gunn could sell to audiences.

It's kind of amusing how all the Gunn vs Snyder discourse is concentrated around Superman when Lanterns keeps sounding like it actually was made by Zack Snyder.

>>149029189
>Lanterns keeps sounding like it actually was made by Zack Snyder
No it sounds like it's made by Zaslav to save cash. If it was Snyder it would be in space and Hal would go to a science cell at the end for killing Sinestro.

>>149029026
It might outperform F4 but there is no way it will make 1.5 billion...not even half of that.

Making a show in space wouldn't even be that costly. You don't even need CGI, make miniatures and film scenes at a quarry say it's a Star Trek homage. Better than whatever the fuck this is going for

>>149029445
>You don't even need CGI, make miniatures and film scenes at a quarry say it's a Star Trek homage
Then it would look like shit to modern audiences

>>149029464
Having a Green Lantern show with a made-in-post green glock as the only construct will look like shit to every audience

>>149029477
>made-in-post green glock
what?

>>149029486
>>149026811

>>149029500
i too believe everything i read on the internet.

>>149029500
Hokey space cops and magic rings are no match for a good blaster at your side

>>149029026
>Superman will make 1.5 billion
>releasing between Jurassic World and F4
>is already the lowest of all the july presalers
Nah

nigga what

>>149026201 (OP)
I
HATE
Tom
King

>>149028848
anon nobody ever talks about True Detective after S1

>>149028972
wasnt it already specified most of these would be standalone stories?

>>149026201 (OP)
Why does this image look like its from an episode of Supernatural

>>149029714
they do, and its usually just making vaughns qoutes
"a clock is right twice a day but the hands are itching my ass" and everyone liked collins performance

>>149029445
Then you would bitch that it looks like shit and they barely use their rings for anything and it’s just all filler

>>149026201 (OP)
Is it actually Green Lantern or is it just Capeshit Supernatural?

>>149028724
>generic color wank in space
This so something general audiences would actually enjoy though

>>149026201 (OP)
Any f-bombs?

>>149029530
>is already the lowest of all the july presalers
repeating another bullshitter's BS doesn't make it true, anon.
JW isn't on pre-sale, and Superman (especially if you include the Prime members only sales) is easily beating FFs current presales, and First Steps went on presales FIRST
You can easily find this out with a fifteen second browser search, why do you like like a stupid tiktoker?

>>149026201 (OP)
Do they actually use the fucking rings? I'm seriously hating the fact that they're setting this on earth and not in space.

Unless idk Polaris or M. Disaster gets involved

>>149028724
If they wanted Tru detective but with real supernatutal shit they shoulda gone for someonr like Jason Blood, not fucking Green Lantern, he at least needs a scifi villain during round 1

>>149026201 (OP)
does hal coach a high school football team called the panthers as well?

>>149026201 (OP)
>John Stewart
Dropped.

>>149026201 (OP)
>Sex scene, full nudity
100 percent going to be a white woman with John Stewart. Surest bet I've ever made in my life. Even better, maybe it's Gunn's wife because he has to put her mediocre ass in everything he makes like the good little childless cuckold he is.

>>149029026
> Superman is gonna assfuck fantastic four and make 1.5 billion easily.
Keep dreaming Gunnjeet. Both Superman and Fantastic Four will flop at the box office. They will both make les than 500 million. You can count on it.

>>149031875
I don't care about F4 but Gunnman has to bomb for the good of DC.

Gunn's DC Universe is so jarring. On the one hand you have Kaijus and parallel universes in Superman to grounded, gritty detective stories in Lanterns. Its crazy how they couldn't make a Green Lantern movie this year instead and are only releasing Superman. It shows a lack of faith in Gunn.

>>149031914
This whole "DCU" is just one big desperate out-of-touch Hail Mary from Zazlav. In his delusional mind, he thinks Marvel is failing because of other reasons other than everyone being tired of the universe gimmick and he thinks he can fill in that gap and who better than this dumb idiot from Marvel to do it? Reeks of desperation, incompetence and plain stupidity. Worst of all, Zazlav can just brush it off and then greenlight something the fans have wanted for a long time (like Constantine II) and get back on their good graces.

>>149026314
They turned green lantern into a gritty olive procedural.
It's Titans level of missing the charm of the material.

>>149028724
Ah yes "The General Audience". They've been so helpful to comics and their continuity in reach years just look at the MCU.

>>149028824
WB feels like they can't do a traditional Green Lantern movie because the Ryan Reynolds movie flopped so bad

And also MCU slop keeps flopping. You can't just throw out baseline capeshit slop and know you'll get a certain size level of audience.

Capeshit now has to go through its "its capeshit but remixed as a [genre]"

I mean, I'm fine with that. I've had generic floppies all my life and I tend to gravitate toward the Elseworlds and Vertigo-style riffs on characters.

Since the Tangent days DC has tried to experiment with GL as an "occult" style book. The Golden Age Alan Scott has its roots in mysticism. There's a GL Dark Elseworlds out *right now*

idk.. do you really think a cinematic Sinestro Corps War movie that feels like how Raimi's Spider-Man made you felt is even possible?

>>149032136
Yes, Martian Manhunter is a better natural fit. But he's too obscure.

WB-Zaslav are actually being incredibly conservative about the DCU:
one movie this year. one movie next year.
one tv show next year.

They're literally starting over with Superman and have said Superman - Batman - WW - Supergirl are their pillars. Compare that with Disney trying to tell us Thunderbolts and Red Hulk and Tony Stark Doom are important. Fuck off.

Gunn is a comic nerd. But he doesn't really care about traditional capeshit. He likes quirky capeshit. He likes Grant Morrison. He liked DnA's GOTG before he got the director gig. He like the JLI.
That's why he's interested in using Swamp Thing and Lobo and Metamorpho. He's never shown any passion for Barry Allen.

He probably has no fan connection to GL because it's always been such traditional capeshit.

And unfortunately, Tom King is his blindspot. Like a lot of people, I think Gunn is duped by the artists carrying his work.

And his mom was veteran exec at WB for years. That's how he got his "in" at DC.

>>149031784
But why? That guy's a riot

>>149026201 (OP)
Bump for interest.

>>149032193
>Yes, Martian Manhunter is a better natural fit. But he's too obscure.
a natural fit for a television show
a much bigger IP is being relegated to cheap television instead

>>149031206
>JW isn't on pre-sale,
Yes it is, look it up on Fandango.

>and Superman (especially if you include the Prime members only sales)
Why would you include the single showing Prime screenings when that's only indicative of fan rush instead of general interest? The Flash had the same sold out IMAX screenings years ago and guess what, it still flopped.

>>149026201 (OP)
Damn, this John Stewart lookin zesty

>>149026201 (OP)
Is there any real reason why the character on the left couldn’t be played by a White Man? Maybe that’s not who he is in the comics but it’s not like you people have a problem with raceswapping White characters.

>>149035638
John Stewart is defined as "black Green Lantern" so no you can't raceswap him, he's only used because he's diverse.
Now could this series easily be about Hal Jordan and a roomie Kyle Rayner, both white? Yes. But it's a bad look, that's all there is.

>>149035808
*rookie

>>149035638
Fuck off, you're either a casual trying to piss us off with a racebait while not knowing who Hal and John are or a faggot that knows and want to piss us off with a racebait, in both cases fuck off.

Do you guys like anything? This is the perfect show to get people into the green lanterns. Critics are gonna suck it’s cock.

>>149035910
>This is the perfect show to get people into the green lanterns.
Lmao, if 2 decades of CBMs didn't prove that movies and tv shows don't increase numbers of comic readers.
This will just create another generation of Johnfags that act like the comics needs to appeal to them with their DEIlantern that they will never read as shown by current John Stewart solo book failing compared to Hal's.
This will just ruin what every Green Lantern chad wanted by 3 decades and it is seeing Hal in a live action media that respects the lore and adds the fucking multiple corps.
>Critics are gonna suck it’s cock.
Lmao, if Oscar didn't prove critics just suck whatever the higher ups tell to suck without watching it.

>>149028858
>Watch they're building up to Blackest Night and Nekron
that'd be a bit weird to do for the first phase. all the characters that'd get "brought back" are either characters that died off-screen before the events of the movie or characters from TSS/Peacemaker - neither of which really have a plethora of characters for audiences to care about. maybe for phase 3 or phase 4 with some more characters under their belt, but certainly not for the first phase where we're still building everything up.
on that note though, the idea of Blackest Night encompassing the whole phase (with TV shows and movies focusing on characters being brought back and not just having it focused to one event movie) would be pretty cool to see. like a JLI show that has Ted Kord coming back at the same time that a Suicide Squad movie has a bunch of their former members coming back

>>149035808
You missed this controversy of John's actor not being black enough?

So still the Center as the villain for phase 1 of DC or whatever. Introducing characters in a streaming show is still a mistake. And not having enough space shit is still a mistake.

>>149026287
oof, i never cared for cape live action but what a faggy personality

>>149026201 (OP)
>whole appeal of lanterns is cosmic action, with cool ring powers
>make it a true detective rip off, and they wear normal clothes
These people are fucking retarded, christ almighty.

>>149026201 (OP)
>another white men are weak and stupid episode so that blacks and women can look smart and strong
man all media is just shitting on white men 24/7 at this point. i stick with the old stuff

>>149028858
>>149028824
The villain is this:
>>149036392

Been a while since I read New Frontier but the villain does control people psychically.

>>149036392
>>149036757
The Center was born in the core of the Earth. It had been observing the activity of the surface for millions of years via telepathy. Upon viewing the growth of humanity and their potential to replicate the destructive force that killed all the dinosaurs, the Centre decides to wipe them out.

The Centre first possesses a children's illustrator, compelling him to produce a picture book detailing its history and intentions. Upon realizing his fate, the illustrator kills himself. The Centre also possesses various supervillains and forms cults in its honor, attracting the attention of the superheroes. It decides to counter their might by spawning dinosaur-like monsters and having them act as minions.

>>149035808
Provided they cast handsome actors, a GL show about a 30-40 year old Hal mentoring a 20-25 year old Kyle would be like crack to women.

>>149036790
So they're just making a shittier version of Parallax with Secret Invasion tier bad writing

>>149036856
>Parallax
Not really? It comes from Justice League The New Frontier (they also made an animated movie).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGoU6KOA9ZI

The New Frontier was like a "Justice League origin story" but Silver Age. So it is prime first Jutice League forming type bait. You've got the infilatration shit and then the army of mooks stuff for the big end battle already down.

>>149036906
Forgot pic.

>>149036906
>>149036919
Yeah I mean they're using that story and re-adapt it in a way that would fit Parallax better but will be done worse

>>149037212
I mean I've not seen a parallax story be done in the same way and I am unsure why you keep acting like Parallax is a better fit?

>>149035910
if you don't like GL for space adventures shit then you don't like GL.
>critics
they're only a tier above casuals in "who gives a fuck" category

All these ocs and no Carol

>>149036518
Worse - they're disingenuous.
They take a writing job knowing full well it not what they like (mainly because it's A job but still) and write it in a way that they want it.
The big wigs didn't chose to make GL deceive show. They chose green lantern, Hire some guys, and those guys said "I want to make a dective show" not caring because nothing is really gonna stop them

>>149034569
he does have beautiful eyes, i dont think that alone makes him zesty though anon. Not all pretty boys are gay.

>>149026201 (OP)
>There’s a sex scene, with full nudity.
Of Kilowag?

>>149039500
nah, sinestro is gay in this and loves hal, and theres a sex scene of sinestro and his husband

Here are some shows that capture the Green Lantern spirit better than whatever King and Lindelof shit out.

>>149026201 (OP)
every james gunn movie and show are flops.

>>149039693
Not the Guardians and Peacemaker and Creature Commandos

>>149026201 (OP)
If this all took place on an ALIEN planet maybe it'd sound cool.

>>149039549
I just pretend this is happening in space.

>>149039840
Peacemaker and Creature Commandos didn't make a profit or drive viewers to purchase subscriptions to streaming sites. GotG only did as well as it did because it was part of an already extremely successful cinematic universe. His Suicide Squad film was a total bomb.

>>149040082
i think peacemaker did okay, i have no idea how creature commandos did because ive only just remembered it existed.

>>149026201 (OP)
>Green lantern
>No mention of Guy Gardner
I sleep

>>149026201 (OP)
This sounds terrible

>>149040136
the only reason hes not in the series is because he is in the peacemaker show