“I’ve sometimes come close.
“This one did kind of fall from the sky,” he says.
“It’s really exciting for me.
Finn Wittrock will play DC’s Guy Gardner in the ‘Green Lantern’ HBO Max series.VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images; DC Comics
I’m considering myself a student of the comic book universe right now.”
He feels “people will be really, really pleasantly surprised” by the upcoming show.
“It is really cool how sprawling a storyline it is,” Wittrock says.
“It’s pretty epic.
It spans time and space and has something for everyone.
It’s not your average superhero story.”
Other Lanterns we know will appear on the 10-episode first season so far includeAlan Scott(Mamma Mia!
Here We Go Again’sJeremy Irvine), a closeted gay F.B.I.
Sinestro and Kilowog, two other characters from the Lantern comics, will also feature.
Out of all of these characters, Wittrock admits that Guy is quite the “polarizing figure.”
“He takes on a lot of this show.
He’s a pretty big part of it,” Wittrock says.
“I think it’s an interesting way in [to the story].
“In some ways, it’s almost better.
I think it offers a chance to reinvent the whole thing and you’re not going to have…
I mean, no offense to the movie.
[The show] can be its own new interpretation.”
The fact that this new project is a series also works to their benefit, he adds.
“There’s a lot of story there.
I think maybe it was just too much to fit into a movie.
I think it’s going to be a different animal, to be honest.”
