![]() “He needed to be a big, strapping, handsome man that everyone would instinctively follow and love. “With Alan, the brief was very clear,” she says. Scott says her instructions from Robinson were to make this version of the Green Lantern as heroic as possible. And that’s a healthy depiction of a team and how it should be.” He’s such a leader, he’s such a good man, that the Justice League don’t care. I imagine he’s such a Type A character that when he realized he was gay, he was like, ‘Okay, I’m gay, now I’m just gonna go on with my life.’ He’s so accepting of it himself and he’s such a compelling person that the world knows Alan Scott’s gay. “Alan Scott is super-heroic, he’s super gallant, he’ll die for the earth, he’ll die for its people, he’s everything you want in a hero. “He doesn’t come out in issue two he is already a gay man,” Robinson says. Though Marvel Comics’ gay hero Northstar is set to face some intolerance from his peers following his marriage to his long term boyfriend in the pages of Astonishing X-Men, Robinson and Scott are planning on portraying an idealized world in which Alan Scott is judged only by the quality of his character. Dan DiDio was like ‘Oh, that’s a great idea, let’s do it!'” “To DC’s credit, there wasn’t any hesitation. “The logical leap that I made was, oh, why don’t we make Alan Scott gay?,” he says. Robinson says he was inspired to write Scott himself as a gay character to make up for that loss. The new versions of these characters in Earth Two have all been aged down considerably, to the point that Scott’s gay superhero son Obsidian had to be sacrificed. Up until recently, a middle aged version of Alan Scott was one of the stars of Justice Society of America, a comic series featuring the 1940s versions of DC’s heroes set in the present day. In the second issue of the comic, in stores June 6th, Robinson and Scott prove just how different this world is by revealing that their version of Alan Scott, the first Green Lantern introduced back in 1940, is an openly gay man. Earth Two, a new series by writer James Robinson and artist Nicola Scott, reintroduces the concept by putting a new spin on the original versions of characters like the Green Lantern, the Flash and Superman that diverges notably from the past several decades of DC lore. Irvine is repped by UTA and Independent Talent Group.When DC Comics relaunched its fictional world from scratch last fall, some aspects of the DC mythos temporarily fell by the wayside, such as the notion of parallel worlds featuring different versions of the company’s iconic heroes. Abrams is developing multiple series in the DC realm, including Justice League Dark and Constantine. The WarnerMedia-backed streamer is in production on James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad spinoff Peacemaker, while a Gotham Police Department drama spinning out of Matt Reeves’ upcoming The Batman film is also in the works. Green Lantern is one of a number of DC properties in the works at HBO Max. Berlanti, Seth Grahame-Smith and Marc Guggenheim are writing the series, with the Grahame-Smith set as showrunner. The HBO Max series also stars Finn Wittrock as Guy Gardner, one of the many Green Lanterns expected to appear in the big-budget series from executive producer Greg Berlanti and Warner Bros. Most recently, Irvine starred in the Jason Bourne-inspired spy series, Treadstone. The English actor played a young Pierce Brosnan in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again and appeared in dramas The Professor and the Madman and The Last Full Measure. Irvine made his feature debut in 2011 starring in Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of War Horse. HBO Max's 'Green Lantern' Series Finds Its Director ![]()
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