Nathan Fillion Teases Man Gardner’s Path From ‘Superman’ to ‘Lanterns’

With the discharge of the James Gunn-helmed Superman, the beginning of this period of DC Studios is ready to make a summer season blockbuster debut. And in it, we’ll meet a new slew of superhero characters, together with the primary Inexperienced Lantern inside this DCU, Man Gardner, as performed by Nathan Fillion.

Fillion is not any stranger to the Inexperienced Lantern Corps., because the actor has a historical past of portraying the extra iconically acknowledged hero Hal Jordan in Warner Bros. Animation’s straight-to-video animated DC movies. Now, he’s set to look as a tonally extra devious and loudmouth Lantern in Superman, on an Earth the place different Lanterns are additionally lively.

It’s raised the query of how Man will come to intersect with the deliberate Lanterns sequence starring Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre as Hal Jordan and John Stewart, respectively. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Fillion mentioned how he thinks Man Gardner’s selfish hero will sq. as much as the opposite Lanterns.

“Aaron, he’s received a voice like butter. And he’s statuesque, like he’s carved out of marble,” Fillion advised the journal. “He’s very, very particular about his character and what his character’s going by. His character’s clearly going by one thing. After which alongside comes this gregarious, smug son of a bitch in Man Gardner. And in that present… boy, Man Gardner. I’ve dropped extra F-bombs in that challenge than I’ve in, I believe, my complete profession put collectively.”

The present is presently taking pictures, and Fillion has been confirmed to look in it after one other deliberate stint as Gardner on Peacemaker. He continued to explain how there will probably be some form of change coming for Gardner’s within the type of bonding with the opposite Lanterns. “By the tip of it, you may inform there’s a shift,” Fillion stated. “Man Gardner is now not comfy. He’s now not feeling smug. Then you may see the place John’s energy actually lies. That could be a robust particular person. I don’t actually have any scenes straight with Hal Jordan, however assembly Kyle, he’s all the pieces you’d hope he could be. Very enjoyable, very good man, very lighthearted, and enjoyable to be round.”

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