A Green Lantern series for HBO Max is on the way that will feature Alan Scott (played by Jeremy Irvine), Guy Gardner (played by Finn Wittrock), Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz, among others. While a sequel to 2011’s Green Lantern has not been in the cards for a long time, especially since Ryan Reynolds has been leaving his stamp on the superhero movie genre in recent years as Deadpool, the Green Lantern property is getting a second shot at live-action redemption on two fronts. ![]() Oh, and in case it wasn’t already clear that Martin Campbell had a bad experience working on Green Lantern, he shared this blunt response to someone inquiring about if Green Lantern 2 will happen: Ryan Reynolds also said back in 2016 that the reason Green Lantern didn’t succeed was it fell victim to the Hollywood process of “poster first, release date second, script last.” We’ve seen before with the theatrical cuts of Suicide Squad and Justice League of how studio interference can drastically change and ultimately hinder DC movies, and Green Lantern was dealing with this same kind of problem years earlier. Yikes! Apparently during the course of making Green Lantern, Martin Campbell butted heads with Warner Bros executives at least once, if not several times, about what the final product should look like. With the Warner executives, over Green Lantern. ![]() Perhaps inevitably, Green Lantern eventually came up, with Campbell writing the following when asked what was the worst fight he’d ever been in: As part of the promotional campaign for his new movie The Protégé, Martin Campbell (whose credits also include GoldenEye, The Mask of Zorro and Casino Royale), held a Reddit AMA to answer all sorts of questions.
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