{"id":10421,"date":"2021-04-30T15:23:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T19:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/?p=10421"},"modified":"2021-04-30T16:59:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T20:59:07","slug":"finn-wittrock-to-headline-green-lantern-hbo-max-series-as-guy-gardner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/finn-wittrock-to-headline-green-lantern-hbo-max-series-as-guy-gardner\/","title":{"rendered":"Finn Wittrock To Headline \u2018Green Lantern\u2019 HBO Max Series As Guy Gardner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"726\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/assets\/image-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10424\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/assets\/image-1.jpg 726w, http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/assets\/image-1-300x248.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Finn Wittrock\u00a0(<em>American Horror Story<\/em>) has been tapped to star as Guy Gardner\/Green Lantern\u00a0in\u00a0HBO Max\u2019s upcoming series based on the DC characters, from Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Written by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Seth Grahame-Smith,\u00a0<em>Green Lantern\u00a0<\/em>reinvents the classic DC property through a story spanning decades and galaxies, beginning on Earth in 1941 with the very first Green Lantern, secretly gay FBI agent Alan Scott, and 1984, with cocky alpha male Guy Gardner (Wittrock) and half-alien Bree Jarta. They\u2019ll be joined by a multitude of other Lanterns \u2014 from comic book favorites to never-before-seen heroes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wittrock has earned two Emmy nominations, for&nbsp;<em>American Horror Story: Freak Show<\/em>&nbsp;and for<em>&nbsp;Versace: American Crime Story.<\/em>&nbsp;He is joining the Berlanti TV universe after working exclusively in series for the past seven years with another mega TV producer, Ryan Murphy. Wittrock has done multiple installments of&nbsp;<em>AHS,<\/em>&nbsp;including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2021\/03\/ryan-murphy-reveal-american-horror-story-season-10-title-1234718490\/\">the upcoming 10th season<\/a>, which he recently wrapped, as well as&nbsp;<em>Versace<\/em>&nbsp;and<em>&nbsp;Ratched,&nbsp;<\/em>which has been renewed for a second season<em>.<\/em>&nbsp;In features, he will next be seen in&nbsp;<em>Deep Water<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>A Mouthful of Air<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wittrock\u2019s Guy Gardner\/Green Lantern is a hulking mass of masculinity, and, as rendered in the comics, an embodiment of 1980s hyper-patriotism. And yet, Guy is somehow likable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Berlanti, Guggenheim and Grahame-Smith executive produce with Geoff Johns, Sarah Schechter, David Madden and David Katzenberg; Elizabeth Hunter and Sara Saedi co-executive produce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finn Wittrock\u00a0(American Horror Story) has been tapped to star as Guy Gardner\/Green Lantern\u00a0in\u00a0HBO Max\u2019s upcoming series based on the DC characters, from Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}