The aforementioned Justice League cartoon helped define John Stewart into the character he is today, specifically the introduction of John Stewart’s military background. At the end he goes through the fiery crucible and he’s washed clean.” But he is going into another battlefield. That’s what John does except he’s not going back into the jungle or the desert, he’s going into space. He has PTSD and just like Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now who has to go back into the jungle and finish his unfinished business. It actually works out really well with John Stewart because we lean into his military backward but we can see that this is a man who is struggling coming come from the war. As Altbacker explained “Jim Krieg sold Butch on that idea and then told it to us when he brought us on that it was going to be like Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. The film’s narrative takes inspiration from Apocalypse Now which may surprise some at first but makes complete sense in hindsight. We switched around and rewrote each other. If I remember he took the first half and I took the last half. After we beat out the plot with Jim, Ernie and I split the screenplay into two. It was just the easiest screenwriting experience I ever had. The whole experience went by like a hot knife through butter. We have all continued to be good friends. There was no awkwardness or discomfort because we all had kept up with each other over the years. When Jim mentioned that he thought he had something that I would be good for and that he wanted me to do, I was more than happy to do it. I’m very proud of the fact that I obviously taught them well enough that they have gone on to do really amazing things. “They had a good growing and learning experience. Having written John Stewart in an episode of Static Shock, Semper jumped at the chance to work with his former protégés. How about Ernie?’ And we were like, ‘That’s fantastic! We’d love to do that.’ The collaboration went really well between the two of us writing it and the three of us figuring it out.” Jim said, ‘Hey John! I’d like for you to do one of these but it’d have to be a team-up with someone who has done some before. “Jim is in charge of these animated movies and I had done several of them but John hadn’t done any. “It’s kind of like the circle of life,” observed Altbacker. Moreover, with this Green Lantern animated film Krieg and Altbacker get to return the favor to Semper who gave both their first Hollywood writings jobs for the ‘90s Spider-Man cartoon. Krieg and Altbacker have been frequent writing partners and friends since film school. To co-write the script, they enlisted superhero animation veterans John Semper Jr. However, they tried to retain some of the spirit of “Hard Traveling Heroes” in the film and the inclusion of Green Arrow as a supporting character. The filmmakers ended up scrapping this idea with John Stewart as a “more of a street level vigilante rallying against the wrongs of landlords in the ghetto,” believing that Green Lantern thrives better in an outer space setting. An early concept of the project took cues from the “Hard-Traveling Heroes” storyline as part of the acclaimed Green Lantern/Green Arrow comic run from writer Dennis O’Neil and artist Neal Adams which saw Hal Jordan traveling the country with Green Arrow to face various social and political issues. While things inevitability changed from the initial pitch, John Stewart was always intended to be the focus as opposed to Hal Jordan. & Aldis Hodge Back Row (left to right) – Ernie Altbacker, Jimmi Simpson, Jeff Wamester, Butch LukicĪccording to producer Butch Lukic, he and producer Jim Krieg pitched the project approximately 4-5 years ago. Front Row (left to right) – Gary Miereanu (moderator), Brian Bloom, Jamie Gray Hyder, John Semper Jr. Last weekend during SDCC, The Beat had the opportunity to talk with the Beware My Power cast and crew about shining the limelight on John Stewart who incidentally debuted in the pages of DC Comics 50 years ago. Though all of the Green Lanterns from Earth have their dedicated fans, John Stewart has a special place in the hearts of many particularly those who grew up watching the Justice League animated series.
So when it turned out to be an origin story for GL John Stewart, it came as an unexpected but a most welcome surprise. announced the Green Lantern: Beware My Power animated film, I think most assumed it would be another Hal Jordan-centric piece.
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