When HBO’s Lanterns premieres on the 2026 TV schedule, it will give the Green Lantern mythology another shot at impressing in live action following the failure of the 2011 Green Lantern movie. However, before this upcoming DC TV show came along, there was a much different kind of Green Lantern series that was in the works. Jeremy Irvine was one of just two actors who’d been announced for this series, and after reading about how he learned it was scrapped, I hope that he can still be included in the DC Universe franchise somehow.
With this earlier Green Lantern show taking place across decades, Irvine had been tapped to play Alan Scott, known in the comics as the Golden Age Green Lantern, in the early 1940s-set storyline, while Finn Wittrock would have portrayed Guy Gardner in the 1980s storyline. When The Direct inquired with the War Horse actor about this project never came to be, he answered:
