The many incarnations of the DC Comics superhero Green Lantern have appeared in numerous media over the years.
Dedicated media featuring Green Lantern include the 2011 live action film Green Lantern and its tie-in video game Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters, the 2012-2013 animated television series Green Lantern: The Animated Series, and the animated films Green Lantern: First Flight in 2009, Green Lantern: Emerald Knights in 2011, and Green Lantern: Beware My Power in 2022. A live-action television series Lanterns, as well as the animated series My Adventures with Green Lantern, are currently in development.
Novels/audios Green Lantern: Sleepers is a trilogy created by Christopher J. Priest and written by Mike Baron, Michael Ahn, and Priest. Each book focuses on a different Green Lantern—Kyle Rayner, Alan Scott, and Hal Jordan, respectively.
Pocket has published a series of Justice League of America novels. Of these, Exterminators by Christopher Golden includes Jordan as part of the team, and Hero's Quest by Dennis O'Neil is a solo Green Lantern story.
All of these stories have been made into full-cast dramatizations released by GraphicAudio.
Television Animation The Hal Jordan incarnation of Green Lantern appears in The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure, voiced by Gerald Mohr. The Hal Jordan incarnation of Green Lantern appears in the Super Friends franchise, voiced by Michael Rye. The Green Lantern Corps appear in series set in the DC Animated Universe (DCAU), consisting of John Stewart (voiced by Phil LaMarr), Kyle Rayner (voiced by Michael P. Greco in Superman: The Animated Series and Will Friedle in Justice League), Kai-Ro (voiced by Lauren Tom), and various minor Lanterns. Additionally, an alternate universe variant of Hal Jordan appears in the Justice League Unlimited episode "The Once and Future Thing, Part 2: Time, Warped", voiced by Adam Baldwin, while Scott Mason / Green Guardsman, an original character based on Alan Scott, appears in the Justice League episode "Legends", voiced by William Katt. The Green Lantern Corps appear in the Duck Dodgers episode "The Green Loontern", consisting of Hal Jordan (voiced by Kevin Smith), Kilowog (voiced by John DiMaggio), Katma Tui (voiced by Tara Strong), Boodikka (voiced by Grey DeLisle), Ch'p (voiced by Frank Welker), and Sinestro (voiced by John de Lancie). Additionally, John Stewart, Arisia Rrab, G'nort, and Guy Gardner make non-speaking cameo appearances. The Hal Jordan incarnation of Green Lantern appears in The Batman, voiced by Dermot Mulroney. The Green Lantern Corps appear in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, consisting of Hal Jordan (voiced by Loren Lester), Guy Gardner (voiced by James Arnold Taylor), G'nort (voiced by Alexander Polinsky), Kilowog (voiced by Diedrich Bader), and various minor Lanterns. Additionally, Alan Scott appears in the episode "Crisis: 22,300 Miles Above Earth!", voiced by Corey Burton. The Green Lantern Corps appear in Young Justice, consisting of Hal Jordan, John Stewart (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson), Guy Gardner (voiced by Troy Baker), Kilowog (voiced by Richardson), Soranik Natu (voiced by Vanessa Marshall), Tomar-Re, and Tomar-Tu (both voiced by Dee Bradley Baker). Additionally, Alan Scott appears in a flashback in the episode "Humanity". The Green Lantern Corps appear in Green Lantern: The Animated Series, consisting of Hal Jordan (voiced by Josh Keaton), Guy Gardner (voiced by Diedrich Bader), Kilowog (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson), Salaak (voiced by Tom Kenny), Iolande (voiced by Tara Strong), Mogo (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson), Tomar-Re (voiced by Jeff Bennett), and several minor Lanterns. The Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner incarnations of Green Lantern appear in the Mad segment "That's What Super Friends Are For". The Hal Jordan and Jessica Cruz incarnations of Green Lantern appear in DC Super Hero Girls (2015), respectively voiced by Josh Keaton and Cristina Milizia. The Hal Jordan and Jessica Cruz incarnations of Green Lantern appear in DC Super Hero Girls (2019), respectively voiced by Jason Spisak and Myrna Velasco. The Hal Jordan incarnation of Green Lantern appears in Justice League Action, voiced again by Josh Keaton. The John Stewart incarnation of Green Lantern makes non-speaking cameo appearances in Harley Quinn. Jessica Cruz appears in the My Adventures with Superman episode "Mobile Suit Toyman", voiced by Auliʻi Cravalho. The Jessica Cruz and Kyle Rayner incarnations of Green Lantern will appear in My Adventures with Green Lantern, voiced again by Auliʻi Cravalho.
Live-action
The Hal Jordan incarnation of Green Lantern appears in Legends of the Superheroes, portrayed by Howard Murphy. The Guy Gardner incarnation of Green Lantern appears in Justice League of America, portrayed by Matthew Settle. The Alan Scott incarnation of Green Lantern appears in the Smallville episode "Absolute Justice", portrayed by Doug Pinton. The Green Lantern Corps are referenced in the Arrowverse.#Arrow easter egg preview… The Alan Scott incarnation of Green Lantern is mentioned and pictured in Stargirl as a member of the Justice Society. His daughter Jade also appears, portrayed by Ysa Penarejo. The Hal Jordan, John Stewart and Guy Gardner incarnations of Green Lantern appear in the HBO series Lanterns, portrayed by Kyle Chandler, Aaron Pierre, and Nathan Fillion respectively.
Films
Live action Green Lantern
A live-action film titled Green Lantern starring Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan and directed by Martin Campbell was released on June 17, 2011. The film, being the character's first theatrical appearance, featured an origin story. The movie was neither well-received nor financially successful. Some of the film's most criticized aspects were the CGI elements that featured heavily.
DC Extended Universe
Justice League (2017) Green Lantern Yalan Gur appears in a flashback in Justice League (2017), during the sequence which depicts humans, Amazonians, Atlanteans, the Olympians and the Lantern fighting Steppenwolf and his army of Parademons. He conjures a giant hammer with his power ring to fight the armies of Apokolips, but is overpowered and killed by Steppenwolf. The power ring then leaves his finger and flies away to find a new worthy individual to inherit it.
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
Director Zack Snyder confirmed on Christmas 2020, that in Zack Snyder's Justice League, Green Lantern is part of his Justice League and has confirmed Hal Jordan is "at another location" in response to a fan asking if Hal is at S.T.A.R. Labs or somewhere else, confirming Jordan's existence in his universe and possibly in the film. Kevin Smith confirmed in January 2019 that a scene was filmed in Principal Photography featuring a Green Lantern and Alfred at Bruce Wayne's lake house but was later reshot by Snyder with Superman. The latter version was included in the home release of Justice League as part of a deleted scene segment titled The Return of Superman. He also confirmed Green Lanterns and the Green Lantern Corps played a significant part in Snyder's planned Justice League trilogy and presumably the then planned Green Lantern Corps film, (see below), as before September 2017, it was planned to take place in Snyder's universe and meant to tie in to Snyder's planned Justice League trilogy. However, the failure of Justice League (2017) and success of Wonder Woman caused Warner Bros. to shift away from Snyder's vision. A scrapped credits scene featuring Kilowog and Tomar-Re visiting Bruce Wayne at his lake house in night was cut in post production in 2017. All of this was to set up Justice League sequels and the then planned Green Lantern Corps movie. Snyder revealed he had planned for John Stewart to appear at the end of the film along with another Green Lantern, likely Kilowog and Tomar-Re. He said he filmed half of it back in 2016 during principal photography in London, with green lights shining on Alfred/Bruce. He intended to complete it as part of pick-ups shooting later in post-production but left the movie. When his movie got green lit, he finished shooting it with a theater actor Wayne T. Carr at Snyder's house on the driveway. The scene was later repurposed then to have both Stewart and Martian Manhunter talking to Bruce. However, Warner Bros. did not like the idea of Snyder introducing John Stewart as they have their own ideas for him elsewhere not connected to Snyder's universe. Thus, a compromise was made and Snyder repurposed the scene to feature Martian Manhunter, revealed earlier in the film to be General Calvin Swanwick, first introduced in Man of Steel, played by Harry Lennix. He visits Bruce Wayne at his lake house which was shot in late October 2020 during additional photography for the film. Snyder also revealed he had an early idea for an additional Lantern in that scene to be played by Ryan Reynolds, but scrapped it early on and never spoke to him about it.
Green Lantern Corps A rebooted adaptation of the Green Lantern titled Green Lantern Corps was first announced as part of the DC Extended Universe in 2016. It was intended to be the tenth installment of the universe. The movie would have reportedly featured numerous Green Lanterns, with Hal Jordan or John Stewart from earth as central characters. It was later stated that both of those characters, along with the Green Lantern Corps may appear in Justice League sequels. In January 2017, Deadline reported that David S. Goyer and Justin Rhodes were hired as co-screenwriters, with the story written by Goyer and Geoff Johns. Goyer will also produce the film with Johns and Jon Berg. In June 2018, Geoff Johns was hired to re-write the script, in addition to producing, with Johns stating that the script will draw inspiration from his New 52 run of the character. In July 2019, Christopher McQuarrie said that he had sent a proposal to Warner Bros. a year prior, which had ties to the Man of Steel sequel, but he moved onto other projects due to what he perceived as no progress on developing the film. By November 2019, Johns was expected to deliver his script by the end of that year. As of 2021, it seems the movie was reworked into the recently announced Green Lantern HBO Max series. On April 1, 2021, The Hollywood Reporter revealed the film is in development again at Warner Bros. John Stewart will be featured in it as confirmed by Zack Snyder who said he was forced by Warner Bros. to remove his own in-universe version of the character from his movie.
DC Universe Guy Gardner appears in the DC Universe (DCU) film Superman, portrayed by Nathan Fillion. Guy Gardner and John Stewart are set to appear in the DCU film Man of Tomorrow (2027), with Nathan Fillion and Aaron Pierre reprising their respective roles.
Animation Green Lantern animated films Hal Jordan is the main protagonist in Green Lantern: First Flight, voiced by Christopher Meloni. There were plans to make a sequel to this film, but nothing came of it due to poor DVD sales. Hal Jordan appears in Green Lantern: Emerald Knights, voiced by Nathan Fillion. John Stewart is the main protagonist in Green Lantern: Beware My Power, voiced by Aldis Hodge. Hal Jordan also appears, with Nolan North reprising his role.
Character in ensemble Hal Jordan is one of the main characters in Justice League: The New Frontier, voiced by David Boreanaz. Hal Jordan appears in Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, voiced by Nolan North. Hal Jordan appears as a member of the Justice League in Justice League: Doom, with Nathan Fillion reprising his role. Nathan Fillion reprises his role as Hal Jordan in Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox. Hal Jordan appears in Lego Batman: The Movie – DC Super Heroes Unite, an adaptation of the video game of the same name, with Cam Clarke reprising his role. Hal Jordan appears in Justice League: War, voiced by Justin Kirk.