Warner Bros. isn’t letting a not-so-successful weekend at the box office hold them back from promoting their next big Green Lantern project. Here’s our first promo trailer for the new animated series.
The official website is now up as well. The series is centered around, who else? Hal Jordan. But in the clip we get looks at Salaak, the Guardians, Kilowog and…I couldn’t make out who the last one was. Regardless I’m really wondering how the series is going to do now that the film didn’t hit as big as they would have liked. Although, this show is obviously aimed at a entirely different demographic so you never know.
I saw a preview of the series at New York Comic Con last year and it’s definitely different than any of the other Warner Bros. animated series. It’s 3-D computer generated animation which puts me off a bit because I’m such a fan of their classic techniques but I’ll watch it regardless because there’s going to be Red Lanterns. Bruce Timm also mentioned the inspiration for the animation on the series was from Pixar’s The Incredibles and that he wasn’t worried about the success or failure of the film affecting the television show. You can read more details from the panel here.
The series will premiere on Cartoon Network later this year and stars Josh Keaton as Hal, Michael Clark Duncan as Kilowog (same as in the live-action film), Richard Green as Sinestro and Robert Englund as Hector Hammond.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:45 pm
Part of me thinks this probably can’t be any worse than the live action movie apparently is (I haven’t seen it yet… I’ll likely wait for Netflix since I didn’t think the trailers looked good, and the reviews reinforced that notion). But… This looks lousy too.
I love The Incredibles, but I’m not sure that animation style works here. Also, that cheesy, Disney-like narration (with giant floating ring) just made this seem all wrong. No dialogue/voices from the cast were heard… I have a feeling this is going to be lousy too.
I will give it a chance, but it’s telling that I haven’t cared for any of the animated DC stuff since Justice League/JL Unlimited ended. Everything since has been geared more towards the kiddies, and I think it’s great that there’s stuff for them too, but I do miss the more sophisticated stuff from Justice League, not to mention all the way back to Batman: TAS and Superman: TAS. Alas, the new Green Lantern doesn’t appear to be in that mold.