Cartoon Network Planning Green Lantern Series

by SuperHeroHype

May 27th, 2010

The Hollywood Reporter says that Cartoon Network is planning a "Green Lantern" animated series.

At the same event where Warner Bros. talked about their upcoming DC Entertainment slate, Time Warner's Turner chairman and CEO Phil Kent showed a slide with some of Cartoon Network's original programming on Thursday.

It included the title "Green Lantern: The Animated Series."

According to the trade, "Warner Bros. chairman and CEO Barry Meyer later in the day mentioned this as an example of increasing collaboration and coordination between his unit and Turner. He said the Cartoon Network show is based on the DC Comics character and Warner's 'Green Lantern' movie, scheduled for a June 17, 2011 release."

The series is expected to debut in November of 2011.

Green Lantern: The Animated Series Teaser Poster

by SuperHeroHype

Oct 7th, 2010

The 2011 series will have a preview at the New York Comic Con

A brand-new teaser poster has premiered online for "Green Lantern: The Animated Series," courtesy of TV Guide.

The poster, as seen below, will be available for signing at this weekend's New York Comic Con where the show's Executive Producer, Bruce Timm, will host a panel previewing the series for the first time.

The series is expected to debut in November of 2011, and will likely tie directly into the Green Lantern feature film, set to hit theaters on June 17th, 2011.

I could definitely see myself getting into that.

Oh, me too! This definitely could be interesting. I have a feeling it'll be really good.

I wish it wasn't CGI though. I'd love to see this in the Timm Verse....you could follow Hal, Kyle, Guy and the others, knowing that Stewart is with the JLU.

They also announced plans for an Animated Green Lantern action figure line. However, while the show will feature Hal Jordan as Green Lantern, the action figures will have every OTHER character included. But no Hal Jordan as a Green Lantern.

Hal WILL be available though in civilian clothes, business suit, pajamas, as a yellow lantern and pink bunny suit variants. They will be available only on Matty.com, and will require a 21 digit code found only by buying 21 other figures.

Even being CGI, that character design sure bears more than a passing resemblence to Timm-verse designs... Something tells me that the whole Holiday Hal thing could really blow up again next year...

Hopefully the toys will be in JLU scale. The style seems to fit.

All kidding aside, I am actually very excited about this. And I completely agree Jim - just going by that poster, even in CGI the style certainly seems very JLU-ish. Can't wait to see more images...

Could be very good. They certainly have enough cool plots from the past 5 years, that's for sure!

I wouldn't mind one bit if they did a season of this, starting with Hals training, introducing villains and allies, the fall of Sinestro, ect...and then came back with the SC War story at some point. That would be pretty cool to see in animation and would be better than the GL movie where they just made things up.

Well I was wrong. Won't be any Sinestro but we'll see the Red Lanterns so we'll at least be getting into those GL stories a little bit.

I hope so too! Young Justice and GL both.

Here's the info from the GL Cartoon Panel at NYCC:

http://www.newsarama.com/tv/nycc2010-gr ... 01009.html

The part where Johns said Mattel is doing the action figure line, is that something that was already confirmed? Or is it the first we're hearing of it?

I'm actually glad there won't be any ties to the DCU. The GL canon is vast enough, that it really doesn't need anyone or anything else muddying it up.