Talk about confidence. Cartoon Network is already developing an animated series to launch right after the forthcoming Green Lantern film, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Thank god they didn't make a MacGruber one. The network is looking for a fall 2011 launch for the series.
It's a sign of an increasing collaboration between Turner networks and Time Warner, parent company of DC Comics, which owns Green Lantern. Now, considering how well these Iron Man movies keep doing, I have a hard time imagining a well made GL movie flopping at the box office. If, however, they make a crappy movie then its anyone's game.
Regardless, though, there is so much potential in the Green Lantern concept, even a bad movie could make for a great television series. I hope they take it in a more serious direction than Batman: The Brave and the Bold. As fun as it is, we don't need to see two DC series like this.
They should take inspiration from another series spun out of a film, Star Wars: The Clone Wars. That series manages to be all-ages fun, while tackling more complex political and social issues and offering a deeper storyline that more sophisticated fans can latch onto.
Either way, as long as Mogo is there -- it's a planet that's also a Green Lantern -- then I am totally there, too!
