TV producer Greg Berlanti is set to direct the live-action big-screen adaptation of GREEN LANTERN for Warner Bros., report the trades. Berlanti, along with Marc Guggenheim and Michael Green, will also pen the script. Donald De Line is the produce with Andrew Haas exec producing.
Launched in 1940, the GREEN LANTERN comic series followed test pilot Hal Jordan as he is given superpowers and the mission to protect a sector of the universe.
Berlanti has been a writer and exec producer on such TV series as DIRTY SEXY MONEY, BROTHERS & SISTERS, EVERWOOD, JACK & BOBBY and DAWSON'S CREEK. He made his feature-film directing debut on THE BROKEN HEARTS CLUB.
Guggenheim, who is a writer on BROTHERS & SISTERS, wrote issues of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, WOLVERINE and BLADE. Green, who is the co-exec producer of HEROES and was a writer/producer on SMALLVILLE, wrote for the SUPERMAN/BATMAN comic title.
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