LANTERNS Showrunner Chris Mundy Talks About Why Early Plans For John Stewart's Suit Were Scrapped

The first season of Lanterns has come to an end, and some fans were bummed about the fact that despite seeing Aaron Pierre’s John Stewart don the ring and take flight after a heartfelt goodbye with Kyle Chandler’s Hal Jordan, we didn’t see John Stewart in his Green Lantern suit.

While this was part of the original plan for the series finale, Lanterns showrunner Chris Mundy explained to CBR in a recent interview why that plot point was changed.

"In the early days, we did designs on Aaron's suit at the same time that we did designs on Hal's, on Kyle's. In the end, it was really a story point. If the season would have continued on another day, you probably would have seen it.

“But emotionally in that moment, once Hal and John have their goodbye scene – the Halogram and John – the season had ended, emotionally. I know there's the montage, and I know he flies.

“But to get to a place where he then had the suit would have taken us out of the moment between those guys. Once we knew that was the ending point, then we were like, 'The suit's not going to be in this season.'"

It has been rumored that Pierre’s John Stewart will get his Lantern suit in next summer’s Superman sequel, Man of Tomorrow. And now that it officially didn’t happen in the HBO series Lanterns, that rumor seems all the more valid.

As always, we will have to wait and see, but you can watch the beginning of John Stewart’s journey in the full first season of Lanterns, streaming on HBO Max now.