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Damon Lindelof apologized after Grant Morrison's critique reignited backlash over a 2024 joke on Green Lantern's 'green,' coinciding with HBO's Lanterns trailer release.
- On Monday, TV writer-producer Damon Lindelof apologized on Instagram for a year-old joke about Green Lantern, acknowledging the remark was regrettable.
- The year-old joke began on the Lovett or Leave It podcast and resurfaced when the Lanterns series trailer dropped on March 4, then reappeared after Grant Morrison's March 15 Substack response.
- Lindelof said 'I made a dumb joke on a comedy podcast' and posted a 20-year-old photo of himself in a Green Lantern shirt after reading Grant Morrison's Substack.
- Lanterns premieres on HBO in August, and fans flagged a lack of green after the trailer while Morrison wrote 'the 'Green' in 'Green Lantern' green is not 'stupid'.
- Some critics accept the change, with Morrison noting green as part of the Emotional Electromagnetic Spectrum and Lindelof saying green is not stupid and remains his favorite, despite split reactions.
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Damon Lindelof Apologizes for His Green Lantern Joke | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip
Damon Lindelof is clearing up a joke he made about Green Lantern. Lindelof is the co-creator of HBO’s upcoming series Lanterns and previously on a podcast, he joked that they named the show Lanterns “because we all agreed that the green was stupid. When the clip recently resurfaced online, Green Lantern comic book writer Grant Morrison called the joke a “jockish dismissal of superhero conventions” in a Substack post. Keep reading to find out mor…
Damon Lindelof Walks Back Green Lantern Joke That Made Everyone Mad
When the Lanterns teaser dropped earlier this month, nerds were quick to jump all over the first footage's notable lack of green. In fairness, the HBO series is about the famous DC Comics character Green Lantern, yet there was nary... Read more...
Damon Lindelof Apologizes for 'Lanterns' Controversy: 'The Joke Was Dumb, The Fandom Is Not'
Damon Lindelof has apologized for jokes made about “Lanterns” on a podcast in 2024 that resurfaced amid discussion about the upcoming HBO show’s lack of green powers. The “Lanterns” co-creator took to Instagram Monday night and apologized for cracking wise against the lack of green in the DC Comics series. “I made a dumb joke on a comedy podcast,” Lindelof said. “I’m not going to bob and weave about context, the joke was dumb, the fandom is not.…
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