Credit: Variety
Warner Bros. has set Greg Berlanti to direct Green Lantern, a live-action take on the DC Comics superhero.
Berlanti will write the script with Marc Guggenheim and Michael Green. Donald De Line will produce; Andrew Haas is exec producer.
Green Lantern was hatched in 1940. Hal Jordan, a second-generation test pilot, is an ordinary man who has been charged with defending a sector of the universe.
Warner Bros. and DC Comics assigned the project to De Line, who is currently in Morocco shooting Body of Lies, the Ridley Scott-directed WB drama that stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe.
Guggenheim, who works with Berlanti as a writer-producer on Brothers & Sisters, wrote the Marvel comic books “Amazing Spider-Man,” “Wolverine,” and “Blade.” Green, the Heroes co-exec producer who worked with Berlanti on Everwood and Jack & Bobby, wrote the Marvel Comics title “Superman/Batman” and was a writer-producer on Smallville.
