'Lanterns' Co-Creator Damon Lindelof Apologizes For Green Shade
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'Lanterns' Co-Creator Damon Lindelof Apologizes For Green Shade
Lanterns star Nathan Fillion is swooping to the rescue of the HBO series’ co-creator Damon Lindelof, who cracked a seemingly harmless joke about the Green Lantern a year ago and is now getting some flack from fans and even a longtime writer of the comic book character. On a podcast last year, Lindelof made an apparently sacrilegious snipe about the superhero’s favorite color. Asked why his upcoming adaptation was called simply Lanterns, sans t…
‘Lanterns’ Co-Creator Damon Lindelof Says ‘I Was Sloppy and Careless’ for Claiming ‘Green’ Was Taken Out of Title Because It’s ‘Stupid’: ‘I Made a Dumb Joke’
“Lanterns” co-creator Damon Lindelof has published a statement on Instagram after finding himself in hot water with DC Comics fans due to a joke he made on podcast last year when asked why his show wasn’t just called “Green Lanterns.” The creator wisecracked at the time: “It’s called ‘Lanterns’ because we all agreed that the ‘Green’ was stupid, so now it’s just ‘Lanterns.'” Lindelof’s words came back to bite him following the release of the fi…
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