Lanterns Star Aaron Pierre Has Already Seen the Pr...

Aaron Pierre will quickly be seen as a live-action version of DC hero John Stewart in HBO’s upcoming collection Lanterns. He lately admitted he’s by no means watched probably the most well-known (or notorious, relatively) live-action tackle the Inexperienced Lantern comics—the 2011 Ryan Reynolds movie—however as a substitute had a a lot, a lot higher page-to-screen introduction to the character: the ’00s Justice League cartoons.

Talking to Entertainment Weekly forward of his subsequent big-screen challenge—he voices the title character in upcoming Lion King prequel Mufasa—Pierre straight-up stated “I haven’t seen that” when requested concerning the 2011 function, a crucial miss that discovered later function due to Reynolds’ good-natured use of it as Deadpool-adjacent joke fodder. Nevertheless, he advised EW he does plan to look at it whereas doing his Lanterns prep work.

Nevertheless, he’s already completely schooled in one other depiction of the Inexperienced Lantern world. “Justice League Limitless might need been one in every of my first introductions to John Stewart,” he defined. Cartoon Community collection Justice League ran from 2001-2004 and featured legendary voice actor Kevin Conroy reprising his iconic Batman: The Animated Collection model of Batman—in addition to Phil LaMarr, one other voice-acting legend (Futurama, Samurai Jack), as John Stewart. Conroy and LaMarr additionally starred within the Justice League follow-up collection Justice League Limitless, which ran from 2004-2006… proper round when Pierre was 10 to 12 years outdated. Good timing.

Pierre’s Stewart will work with veteran Inexperienced Lantern Corps member Hal Jordan on Lanterns—that’s the model of the character Reynolds performed, with Kyle Chandler enjoying him on the HBO collection. Although Lanterns casting for each characters grabbed quite a lot of headlines (keep in mind when Josh Brolin turned down the Jordan role?), Pierre advised EW he wasn’t actually conscious of the media frenzy.

“I used to be simply locked into giving the perfect model that I may of this stunning character within the rigorous audition course of,” he defined. “I’m a agency believer that what’s meant for you received’t miss you. So, I gave my finest after which set it free. Now I’ve been gifted the chance to convey this stunning character to life and, hopefully, I serve John Stewart. Hopefully, I serve the Inexperienced Lantern Corps. We’re simply actually excited for the folks to see what we put collectively right here.”

Lanterns doesn’t but have a launch date, however search for it both later subsequent yr or someday in 2026.

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