By 
After reports earlier in the week that Josh Brolin was in the running for a co-lead role in Lanterns, The Hollywood Reporter now says he has passed on the role.
There were also rumors that Matthew McConaughey and Ewan McGregor were also potentially lined up. The report says that McConaughey is definitely not up for a role.
The offer made to Brolin was for the role of Hal Jordan for the TV series from DC Studios and Warner Bros. Television. Jordan is the same role played by Ryan Reynolds in the now infamous 2011 adaption (which I really must revisit, just to see if it remains as bad as we all thought).
Now that we have more details, it seems that Brolin received the offer for Lanterns in late August and finally made the decision over the weekend. The plan is for a mid-50s Hal Jordan to appear alongside a younger Jon Stewart as they investigate an Earth-bound murder with larger implications for the whole DCU. People in the know have talked about a gritty tone and frequently raise True Detective.
Chris Mundy (Ozark) is set as showrunner and the show will run for eight episodes. Filming is penciled in to start in Atlanta in January.
The first Green Lantern character, Alan Scott, was created in 1940 by Martin Nodell with scripting or co-scripting of the first stories by Bill Finger during the Golden Age of Comic Books.
The first iteration usually fought common criminals in Capitol City or Gotham City with a magic ring. It was only in the Silver Age of Comic Books that John Broome and Gil Kane reinvented the character as Hal Jordan in 1959, introduced the Green Lantern Corps, and shifted the whole story into the galaxy-spanning sci-fi we all associate with the character today.
The post Brolin Passes On LANTERNS appeared first on Last Movie Outpost.
