Even though John Stewart will be in Man of Tomorrow, Lanterns showrunner says he didn’t have “any specific landing point”
The showrunner of DC's "Lanterns" series, Chris Mundy, has confirmed that John Stewart's appearance in the upcoming James Gunn film "Man of Tomorrow" was not planned with a specific outcome for the character in mind when the TV show was written. This clarifies how the two DC Studios projects, which both feature the Green Lantern character, relate to one another creatively, easing concerns about whether the show's storyline would be dictated by or need to tie into the film's plot.
Mundy explained that he approached "Lanterns" without designing the story around any predetermined destination for Stewart, suggesting the series was crafted as its own self-contained narrative rather than a direct lead-in to the film. "Man of Tomorrow" is part of the new DC Universe under James Gunn and Peter Safran, and "Lanterns" is one of the television projects being developed alongside it as the studio builds out its interconnected slate of Green Lantern-related content.
- Lanterns showrunner had no fixed endpoint for John Stewart's arc
- John Stewart also appears in DC film Man of Tomorrow
- Suggests the show wasn't written purely to set up the film
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John Stewart is a Green Lantern character in DC Comics, one of several people who have carried that name and taken on the role. He is central to two forthcoming DC Studios projects: Lanterns, a television series, and Man of Tomorrow, a feature film directed by James Gunn. Both are part of a new shared DC Universe being built under Gunn and his fellow studio head, Peter Safran.
Chris Mundy is the showrunner of Lanterns, meaning he oversees the creative direction of the television series. Because the same character appears in both the show and the film, there has been interest in how closely the two stories are linked, and whether one is being written to set up or serve the other.
This matters because DC Studios is trying to build an interconnected slate of films and television shows that share characters and continuity, similar to approaches used by other major studios. How tightly individual projects are tied together affects how audiences are expected to follow the wider story across different formats.