HBO Max’s upcoming Green Lantern series appears to have found its Alan Scott/Green Lantern. According to Deadline, Treadstone star Jeremy Irvine is considered a favorite for the role and is currently in talks to join the project.
Alan Scott is the original Green Lantern in DC Comics, first appearing in 1940 as a superhero who fights evil with the help of a ring that gives him magical powers. The character had multiple reincarnations since then, with the latest being from the early 2000s.
The most recent version of Alan Scott sees the character living on Earth-Two as a young, gay man and an owner of a big media company, GBC production. He gets his power from “the Green,” which is a mystical entity that “connects all plant life on Earth.” Scott is considered to be among the most important gay characters in the DC Universe.
Irvine’s most notable works include appearances in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, The Last Full Measure, and in upcoming Terence Davies’ biographical flick Benediction. He also starred as a lead in Bourne television spinoff Treadstone before the show was canceled after one season.
Green Lantern TV series already cast Finn Wittrock (American Horror Story) as Guy Gardner. Besides Gardner and Scott, the series is expected to feature several more Green Lanterns.
