James Gunn is revealing an unexpected update about Lanterns, and the recent casting of Aaron Pierre as John Stewart.
The DC Studios head made the revelation during 2024 Comic-Con over the weekend while discussing the forthcoming project.
“Aaron Pierre is somebody who I’ve wanted to work together with for a long time,” he began.
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“People don’t know, but he was almost cast as Adam Warlock. He’s an amazing actor, and I just really admired him from the beginning of his career,” he then revealed.
Adam Warlock is a character in Marvel‘s Fantastic Four, originally named Him. He starred in the titles Marvel Premiere and Strange Tales as well. He was portrayed by Will Poulter in his live-action debut in the MCU film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
“Seeing him read with Kyle [Chandler] was one of those miraculous moments. I don’t care what they’re saying, I just love what they’re saying together,” he went on.
“When we first started the DCU, the first couple of weeks of heading this out, we got together with a group of writers, and Tom King was one of those writers, and we were in this room, and we came up with sort of this concept for Lanterns. It’s a much more it’s a very grounded series, a very real series, which is a strange thing to say about a Green Lanterns show. But it’s going to be something like nobody’s ever seen before.”
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