Green Lantern: Beware My Power is coming to 4k Blu-Ray on July 26, 2022. That’s right – DC’s cosmic hero is blasting his way back onto our screens in the form of his own animated movie.
“In Green Lantern: Beware My Power, recently discharged Marine sniper John Stewart is at a crossroads in his life, one which is only complicated by receiving an extra-terrestrial ring which grants him the powers of the Green Lantern of Earth,” reads the official synopsis.
Previously announced back in 2021, the animated Green Lantern movie introduces John Stewart in animated form.
But it looks as though his transition to Green Lantern is far from simple.
“Unfortunately, the ring doesn’t come with instructions – but it does come with baggage, like a horde of interplanetary killers bent on eliminating every Green Lantern in the universe. Now, with the aid of the light-hearted Green Arrow, Adam Strange, and Hawkgirl, this reluctant soldier must journey into the heart of a galactic Rann/Thanagar war and somehow succeed where all other Green Lanterns have failed.”
A new trailer gives us our first glimpse at John’s plight… and it looks pretty cool, too. Green Lantern last appeared on the big screen in 2011 in the critically-panned Green Lantern movie... but has yet to make his Justice League debut in the current Warner Bros. pantheon.
Still, this upcoming animated feature sets the stage for an interesting addition to DC’s animated works, with a focus on John Stewart over the traditional Green Lantern, Hal Jordan.
The 4K Blu-Ray includes the new featurette, John Stewart: The Power and the Glory – a new documentary that explores John Stewart’s legacy including new interviews with those who helped shape his story.
Green Lantern: Beware My Power stars Aldis Hodge as John Stewart alongside Jimmi Simpson as Green Arrow, Ike Amadi as Martian Manhunter, Brian Bloom as Adam Strange, Jamie Gray Hyder as Hawkgirl, and Rick D. Wasserman as Sinestro with additional voices by Nolan North.
Jeff Wamester directed the movie based on a script by John Semper and Ernie Altbacker. Jim Kreig is on board as producer alongside Butch Lukic with Sam Register as executive producer.
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