Rumor: Reynolds To Return To Green Lantern Role After WB-Discovery Merger

According to an article on the website Dealline, Ryan Reynolds will once again play the Green Lantern Hal Jordan in a number of properties under the newly formed Warner Bros. Discovery. Once the deal closes to merge WarnerMedia with Discovery, according to unnamed sources cited in the article, Reynolds will receive a development package worth north of $100 million to make movies and series focused primarily on the DC comics character he played in the 2011 film Green Lantern.

The article cites the sources saying the first project will be a streaming series on the combined HBO Max – Discovery Plus platform, featuring Reynolds as Green Lantern travelling to various points in Earth’s ancient past to assist non-human members of the Green Lantern Corps. (DC’s intergalactic space defense force, all using the title Green Lantern) as they attempt to boost human development by teaching those ancient people technologies and techniques for things like megalithic construction.

The source says the story involves the Oa (the incredibly ancient aliens that created the Green Lantern Corps. billions of years ago) discovering that some force is trying to tamper with those times when the Corps. assisted humanity, such as in ancient Egypt, ancient Peru and ancient Britain. The Oa reveal a long-secret time travel power and give it to Reynolds’ Hal Jordan so he can stop the force from changing history.

Nobody from Warner Bros., Discovery or Reynolds’ team responded to requests for comment, according to the article.

(Edit: After initial publication of the article, Reynolds did take to Twitter to say, “I look forward to portraying how the Ancient Alien Green Lantern Corps. aided in the creation of many historical moments in human history, including the development of April Fool’s Day.”)