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This includes DC legend Grant Morrison, a man who has several controversial storylines in his past, but also wrote one of Batman’s most acclaimed DC Comics runs. However, Morrison’s comments come more in reaction to something Lindelof said while promoting the series and saying they called it Lanterns because Green Lanterns was “stupid.” Morrison took issue with this on his Substack newsletter, Xanaduum. “The ‘Green’ in ‘Green Lantern(s)’ green is not ‘stupid’. Why does a writer attach himself to this kind of narrative if he thinks it’s fundamentally ‘stupid’?” Morrison wrote. “The only people who give a f**k about the Lanterns TV series are Green Lantern fans. Why alienate them at the start? That feels more like ‘stupid’.”
Grant Morrison Is Right About the Lanterns Title
Grant Morrison admitted that Damon Lindelof is a creative man and someone who has proven he can create great things on his own (he was the co-creator of Lost). However, this also made Morrison question why someone who was “ashamed” of the title Green Lantern(s) would want to be involved at all. Morrison immediately said that Green Lanterns is a much more “evocative” title than Lanterns, and it would have sold it better to the fans who actually care about the comic book characters.
Morrison believes that Hollywood would rather give the projects to people “embarrassed” by the source material, which will only water them down and kill the projects. At the moment, there is still a lot of excitement about the Lanterns series, and with names like Tom King involved, it adds to the excitement level. Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow was a fantastic series that reinvented Kara, and the movie adaptation looks to be almost like a Western in space, which is exactly what it needs to be. If Lanterns is a John Stewart origin story, and it starts off with a smaller adventure, that could work perfectly as well.
