Chris Mundy, the creator and showrunner for the upcoming DC Universe show Lanterns, which stars Aaron Pierre as John Stewart and Kyle Chandler as Hal Jordan, revealed the show is about Stewart replacing Jordan.This Substack is reader-supported.
Jon Stewart is a GREAT DC character. He's a minority done right. Instead of race swapping Hal Jordan, DC created a new lantern, Jon Stewart, and from everything I've seen with Jon Stewart in it, the character is done very well so I hope they don't screw that up in this show. That said I am disappointed that David Ramsey, who played John Diggle in the ARROW series, wasn't the actor cast to play Jon Stewart. Towards the end of the series run when he found something that was glowing green (in the episode we only see the glow and not what it is) I was soo excited that maybe they were hinting that Ramsey would be Jon Stewart in the then rumored LANTERNS series.
Except this story is gonna be the white guy get replaced by a black guy cause white people bad. This show already sounds like crap. Why can’t they just both be awesome. lol these people are morons. Pure evil.
Normally I too would be concerned but since the GL is a corp of many and b/c Jon Stewart is not a race/gender swapped character but just another member like Kyle Reiner and Guy Gardner I'm not that concerned. That said you may very well be correct and only time will tell. I however hope this is not how it plays out b/c i for one really would like to see a successful GL IP that isn't animation.
Jon Stewart is a GREAT DC character. He's a minority done right. Instead of race swapping Hal Jordan, DC created a new lantern, Jon Stewart, and from everything I've seen with Jon Stewart in it, the character is done very well so I hope they don't screw that up in this show. That said I am disappointed that David Ramsey, who played John Diggle in the ARROW series, wasn't the actor cast to play Jon Stewart. Towards the end of the series run when he found something that was glowing green (in the episode we only see the glow and not what it is) I was soo excited that maybe they were hinting that Ramsey would be Jon Stewart in the then rumored LANTERNS series.
Except this story is gonna be the white guy get replaced by a black guy cause white people bad. This show already sounds like crap. Why can’t they just both be awesome. lol these people are morons. Pure evil.
Normally I too would be concerned but since the GL is a corp of many and b/c Jon Stewart is not a race/gender swapped character but just another member like Kyle Reiner and Guy Gardner I'm not that concerned. That said you may very well be correct and only time will tell. I however hope this is not how it plays out b/c i for one really would like to see a successful GL IP that isn't animation.