Green Lantern’s HBO creator addresses backlash after trailer release

When the first trailer for HBO’s Lanterns arrived, most superhero fans had the same puzzled reaction. Sure, the new show from James Gunn’s DC Universe looked cool in a gritty, True Detective kind of way, but it didn’t really look like a Green Lantern show. After all, for a story ostensibly about two guys who use sci-fi alien rings to create any object they can imagine out of green light, the Lanterns didn’t feature a single instance of those iconic green light constructs.