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A scrapped Green Lantern series, from Arrowverse creator Greg Berlanti, was in the works at DC and Max before James Gunn and Peter Safran emerged as DC Studios’ co-CEOs. The show followed numerous Green Lanterns, including as Guy Gardner, Jessica Cruz, Simon Baz, and Alan Scott across different time periods.
On the latest episode of The Showrunner Whisperer (a Multiverse of Color original,) host Andy Behbakht continued his chat with Arrow co-creator, as well as Green Lantern writer/producer for the series, Marc Guggenheim, on its recent episode.
The Showrunner Whisperer: Is there anything you can share about your time on the show?
Marc Guggenheim: It was gonna be awesome. It was gonna be great. We had James Mangold’s go-to production designer; we had the woman who designs the costumes for The Boys [Laura Jean Shannon] and a million other superhero shows.
Guggenheim went more in-depth on how the series was shaping up during its pre-production, mentioning the costumes were being done without CG.
Marc Guggenheim: Oh, and you should see those costumes, by the way, not a single bit of CG in any of them! I have the designs on my phone! Oh, God, they looked amazing. The production art, it would blow you away, honestly, stuff that looked incredible, but look[ed] like a movie. We had an amazing writing staff, we’d written all eight scripts of the first season, so I know what the show would have been and it was going to be emotional and exciting with two different time periods, some, I think, incredibly strong character work that was very, very, very true to the franchise of Green Lantern. Yeah, bums me out.
But unfortunately, that’s the reality of doing TV in the 2020s; you can write an entire season of television and not shoot a frame. It didn’t always used to be that way. But it is that way now and it takes a lot of self control some days to avoid going on Instagram or Twitter and be like, ‘This is what you could have had!’
Max (formerly known as HBO Max) had confirmed Simon Baz was one of the many characters who would have appeared in Green Lantern, as Guggenheim spoke about looking forward to his character in the series.
The Showrunner Whisperer: Because I was so ready for Simon Baz, because as a Middle Eastern myself, I know how important that story is, especially in today’s political climate.
Marc Guggenheim: Our plans for Simon were really cool, the costume that Laura had designed for him was amazing. We had some really, really cool plans. It’s a bummer, that’s all I will say.
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