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Stan's full quote from the newspaper interview article briefly talking about The Batman: Part II when originally asked a question regarding Avengers: Doomsday:

>"We didn't have a script. We were just shooting scattered scenes. It's a different way of working, continuous, constantly evolving. The producers didn't want us to read it in its entirety, to avoid journalists asking us questions. I've been following this rule for fifteen years, I'm used to it. I also can't say anything about The Batman: Part II, by Matt Reeves, where I play Harvey Dent [in theaters February 16, 2028, editor's note]. The beauty of this profession also lies in participating in projects of this scale, which I love as a viewer. Right now, I'm really looking forward to seeing The Odyssey, by Christopher Nolan; it looks amazing."

Jeff Sneider in response to Stan's comment:

>"If you guys buy that 'confirmation', I have a bridge I’d like to sell you. Use your brains. Do some critical thinking…"

>"Oh, hello random French outlet. I can’t tell you anything, but let me confirm my role in this top-secret movie. It’s not a misdirect at all. I’m working with the makeup team even though I haven’t been spotted in makeup yet. I even shaved my head like a good District Attorney…"

>"Sure thing, buddy. We definitely won’t look back on this and roll our eyes…"

>"If you’ve been following this account long enough, you know my #1 rule of reporting. I’m not even going to repeat it. I will simply invoke that rule here and leave it at that. See you in 2028, when this will be me…"

>"Can’t wait for the planted leak of Stan in Dent makeup. That’s gotta be coming soon. I wonder which role BTH will pretend to be playing… so weird how we still don’t know, right?"

>"I'd love to reveal my sources so all my haters would STFU, but I don't do that, so I'll suffer the internet's slings & arrows for the next 18 months. But I'm going to keep a list of doubters, and you'll all be mentioned in a future column called THE DUMBEST PEOPLE ON TWITTER."

>"FULL MELTDOWN. Ha! Please. This is a Tuesday. It's not even Noon yet. This place got so soft. It's sad. WHOA... look at this guy NOT BEHAVING EXACTLY AS YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BEHAVE ON SOCIAL MEDIA. A bunch of lemmings, doing as you're told. My lord! Live a little, folks. SUBSCRIBE!"

Sneider's full response when asked by a superchat question regarding The Batman: Part II [1:26:17]:

>"I did hear some things about Batman...We didn't talk about the Poison Ivy of it all...That was part of the report that [DC & HBO] were pitched a Poison Ivy show...and passed on it. Interesting. I'm not saying they didn't pass on it, but like okay, when did they do that? And, are they like, I don't know. I'm starting to hear rumors that like maybe Scarlett Johansson is Poison Ivy, right. Those rumors have been out there. I think that would follow the same for you know, Colin [Farrell] was the Penguin and then he gets the spinoff [show] and I think that was the idea and I don't think that HBO Max is really in a position of turning or passing on a series starring Scarlett Johannson. I don't know if the 'passing on Poison Ivy' thing is like a cover because they don't want us to know that maybe she is Poison Ivy. I mean, is she really just be playing like nobody and again, my own sources said she was playing an amalgamation with a name that maybe wouldn't be familiar to fans of the comics, but I've also heard, you know, yeah, maybe she is playing Poison Ivy. So, I don't know."

His response when asked again by another superchat question regarding the film [1:55:03]:

>"I heard both my things were true. [Sebastian Stan as Victor Zsasz and Brian Tyree Henry as Harvey Dent]. I heard about the maybe Poison Ivy thing that's up in the air. The other thing I definitely heard was Court of Owls is in the movie."

Few additional bits of Jeff Sneider Marvel scoop round-up from the latest 'The Hot Mic' podcast episode:

• He posted the MCU Storm casting rumor on social media.

• He says the source that told him of the Storm rumor was the same one that first told him about Kit Connor as MCU Cyclops, however he stressed that his source have incorrectly denied that Sadie Sink is MCU Jean Grey, so take this with a grain of salt.

• He's heard only 4 MCU X-Men cast members (including Sadie Sink) are showing up at D23.

• His source says that the Marvel presentation on Doomsday, VisionQuest and X-Men is going to be kinda bleak.

From the article:

>As DC prepares for the launch of its latest TV show this Sunday with HBO's Lanterns, two other planned projects hit the back burner.

>Waller, the Peacemaker spinoff focused on Viola Davis' Amanda Waller, is no longer in active development at HBO. While the show was originally meant to be one of the first TV projects for the new era of DC, it's no longer a priority but remains in development at DC Studios, Entertainment Weekly has learned.

>Paradise Lost, the Wonder Woman-adjacent show about the Amazons of Themyscira, is now similarly taking a backseat at HBO, though we're told it could still see the light of day in the future.

>The Ankler was the first to report the news. EW reached out to representatives for HBO and DC Studios.

>DC Studios co-head James Gunn announced both shows all the way back in January 2023 when he revealed the planned entertainment slate. Waller, written by Christal Henry (Watchmen) and Jeremy Carver (Supernatural), was said to feature Team Peacemaker. Paradise Lost was then described as in the vein of Game of Thrones with "the genesis and political intrigue of an island of all women."

>Other shows revealed alongside Waller and Paradise Lost were Creature Commandos (released in 2024), Peacemaker season 2 (premiered last year), Lanterns (premiering this Sunday), and Booster Gold (still in development and on the hunt for a new writer).

>Though we haven't had a firm update on Waller in a while, as of late April, Gunn wrote on Threads that Paradise Lost was "in extreme development." Meanwhile, a proper Wonder Woman movie is still in the works with Supergirl scribe Ana Nogueira attached.

>Lanterns is the latest TV offering from DC, headed by both Gunn and Peter Safran. From showrunner Chris Mundy (Ozark) and executive producers Damon Lindelof (Watchmen) and Tom King (DC Comics), the drama stars Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre as Hal Jordan and John Stewart. Hal, a veteran of the Green Lantern Corps, begrudgingly mentors his new replacement while unraveling an alien mystery in rural Nebraska.

>A series focusing on Jimmy Olsen (Skyler Gisondo), comics character Gorilla Grodd (Jimmy Tatro), and the Daily Planet newsroom from Superman is currently filming. Meanwhile, the adult animated show Mister Miracle, showrun by King and featuring Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner, is coming down the pipeline.

From the article:

>For many months, people eager for information about the new HBO series Lanterns had a single production still they could inspect. Many obsessed over the green ring peeking out from the actor Kyle Chandler’s middle finger. What hints might it hold?

>“Somebody did a 20-minute YouTube video zooming in on this ring,” Jeffrey Johnson, the show’s property master, recalled last year on a Warner Bros. soundstage in Burbank, Calif. He slid the ring into the show’s meticulously crafted lantern. “The level of scrutiny,” he added, “is fascinating.”

>Johnson knew the ring would be a “big thing.” And the people involved with this ambitious Green Lantern drama are hoping it will be, too. It is the next major undertaking from DC Studios, coming on the heels of James Gunn’s Superman movie, which won wide acclaim last summer, and Craig Gillespie’s Supergirl, which flopped this summer. Now the pressure is on the creators of Lanterns, which premieres on Sunday, to turn things back around.

>“I think of Sunday Night HBO,” said the showrunner, Chris Mundy (Ozark, True Detective: Night Country), who created Lanterns with Damon Lindelof (Lost, The Leftovers) and the comic book writer Tom King. “Even just hearing that whole thing when the HBO sign comes on — it’s kind of a terrifying challenge because it needs to live up to that little crackle.”

>What the art department tried to do with the ring — wrap a thing that “can unleash all this power” inside a relatively “pedestrian” package, as the production designer John Paino described it — is a reasonably good encapsulation of what the creators want to do with the show. That vision became clearer during two days on set in June 2025, when I spoke with about a dozen people involved with the production, and in conversations with cast and crew members since.

>As the writers put it: Sure, it’s a series about intergalactic superheroes. But they wanted Lanterns to be firmly grounded on Earth — more “tactile” and “True Detective,” Mundy said, than the usual comic-book adaptation, more “sweaty and grimy” than “glowing and green screen.”

>It’s an approach that HBO has used to great success in adapting DC properties before — recently with the gritty, noir-inflected drama The Penguin, which won nine Emmys last year, many in creative arts categories like hair, prosthetics and costumes. Lindelof’s 2019 HBO adaptation of Watchmen was similarly rooted in DC Comics lore while taking place in a world that felt all too real. It, too, collected several Emmys, winning 11.

>“Our central objective going into this was to take this canon that has all these sorts of spectacular things, and keeping the spectacular,” Mundy said later on a video call, “but also making sure that it’s relatable.”

>THE HISTORIC WARNER BROS. LOT was the hub of Lanterns. On the afternoon I visited, more than 80 people were hard at work on the production. Between takes, crew members raced to thread cables through doorways, adjust lights in the kitchen and push cameras on massive dollies. The pleasant smell of freshly planted jasmine wafted through the air.

>For all its superhero underpinnings, “Lanterns” is at base a buddy cop show — the buddies (or in this case, co-worker frenemies) just happen to be space cops, known as Green Lanterns (there are a bunch of them), with supernatural powers derived from the ring. (Yes, there is also an actual green lantern — effectively a fancy charging station for the ring.)

>Set mostly along two timelines — one in 2016 and the other in 2026 — the series follows an older Lantern, Hal Jordan (played by Kyle Chandler), and a new Lantern recruit, John Stewart (Aaron Pierre), one of DC’s first Black superheroes when he was introduced in the early ’70s.

>Each timeline turns on a central mystery, though Mundy argued that the relationship between Hal and John is what drives the show.

>Hal is brash, arrogant and impulsive. “He knows everything, and he’s never wrong,” Chandler said during an interview inside one of the Burbank production offices. “And he has no problem telling people that he’s never wrong and that they’re always wrong. So it’s a fun character, because he gets to evolve from there.”

>John is to some degree Hal’s opposite: dutiful, driven and poised. A former Marine sniper and an architect, John embodies two “seemingly juxtaposed things coexisting in one individual,” Pierre said.

>When the series opens, Hal and John are investigating a murder in Rushville, Neb. The two men are supposed to work together. But they are very much in each other’s way.

>King, the comic book writer and a co-creator of the series, credited Chandler and Pierre for embodying the “epitome” of who Hal and John are in the comics. (In a costuming trailer, a mood board for Hal included a picture of Anthony Bourdain. One for John included Mahershala Ali in True Detective.) Yet the writers also sought to stretch those characters to their limits, King said.

>So many details seemed geared toward keeping Lanterns, a show in which characters fight aliens and can fly, as earthbound as possible. Hal’s suit, for instance, stood in the corner of the costuming trailer looking more battle tested than high-tech. “Sci-fi futuristic was something that we were trying to definitely dial back,” said Cynthia Ann Summers, the costume designer.

>It took 20 tries before everyone settled on a design for the lantern, Johnson, the prop master, said. It lights up in four directions but is also weathered and worn.

>“It’s been around for generations,” Johnson said. “It’s traveled.”

>That lived-in quality infused the set designs as well. On Stage 19, designers had built the Stewart family home, whose patio ceiling was flecked with dirt and grime. A big carton of goldfish crackers sat atop the refrigerator. On the wall hung family pictures and on the windows floral curtains that had seen much better days.

>The house was tidy — Mrs. Stewart, John’s mother, is “house-proud,” said the set director Amy Wells — but not too tidy. Mrs. Stewart has three boys.

>“Would she have a white sofa?” Wells said of Mrs. Stewart. “Absolutely not.”

>“The hardest thing to do for my job,” Wells added, “is to get it to be real.”

>A FEW DAYS AFTER visiting Burbank, I drove 40 miles northwest to a flat, unincorporated town called Piru, where the production was filming scenes set in Rushville. When Piru was selected as a Nebraska stand-in, everyone knew the imposing mountains abutting the town would need to be removed in postproduction. Otherwise, the place felt perfect.

>Rushville — in real life, a city of fewer than 1,000 people — is the domain in Lanterns of Sheriff Kerry (Kelly Macdonald). As Macdonald had said while stopping by a production office on the Warner Bros. lot, that means a total of three cops are all patrolling the very small town, and “they’re all sort of butting heads at various points.”

>Sheriff Kerry “just wants them gone,” she said of Hal and John. “And the more she wants them gone, the more Hal Jordan knows that there’s something to stay for.”

>For some months, Piru’s main street became downtown Rushville. (King’s father is from Rushville, and Mundy, the showrunner, is from Nebraska.) Knock on the brick facade of Sheriff Kerry’s Sheridan County Sheriff’s Office and you would have discovered it was hollow. But knock on the wall of Rush Valley Coffee a few steps away, and you would have hurt your hand. It is an actual business called Corazon de Piru that was being used to house the wardrobe department.

>On the day I visited, cast and crew were filming a scene inside a diner they built, which hosts several important meetings during the series. The roadside place advertised itself with orange block letters spelling “CAFE.” As crew members prepared lights inside, food stylists out back put the finishing touches on half-eaten-blueberry pancakes.

>Although it is part of the broader DC Universe, Lanterns is a free-standing story, Mundy said. It was also conceived as a multi-season show — Green Lanterns, after all, can get pulled into all kinds of jobs in all kinds of places.

>“We’re trying to really put John Stewart on his feet inside our own show, but then, once he’s on his feet, he can walk around in the rest of the DC-verse,” Mundy said.

>As the 2026 mystery unfolds, another Green Lantern, Guy Gardner, will make a cameo, offering a bit of connective tissue to the Superman movie. But “we had no directives,” Mundy added, to make it fit with some other show or movie.

>That gave the creators a lot of freedom compared with some other franchises, where writers can be hemmed in by maddeningly byzantine lore. But with that freedom comes pressure, as with the outsize fan attention to that early image of the ring.

>King hinted at a major plot twist and a break with canon, both of which could prove controversial. Lindelof acknowledged “a real fear of screwing it up,” emphasizing that “the thing that matters to me the most” was that fans could “feel how much we cared about Hal and John.”

>But as Lindelof also noted, Lanterns is a show with two protagonists who are fixated on the idea that one can abolish fear. No one is going to want to watch a “scaredy cat” version of the show, he said; this story — their version of it at least — has to have risk embedded in it.

>“If it doesn’t,” Lindelof added, “it’s going to fall on its face.”

Wyatt's full comments regarding MAWS:

>"My Adventures With Superman has not yet been renewed for a fourth season. Views have been great! Our best ever. Our stakeholders—DC Studios, Adult Swim, HBOmax—have been great to the show. But each has to chart its own future in an uncertain, unstable climate. That takes time."

>"However it turns out, getting to make our third season was a gift from everyone involved, especially our team and our viewers. I learned more on S3 than on any other project, and I’d love to bring those lessons back to Superman—but I’m grateful just to have taken the ride."

>"One last thing: Peter Safran and James Gunn saved our show from the chopping block, renewed us for a third season, and gave us a spinoff [show, My Adventures with Green Lantern]. It’s a weird time in entertainment, but if My Adventures With Superman doesn’t get a fourth season, it won’t be because they didn’t support it."

Rocha's full quote regarding Melton:

>Listen, these deals might still be made because I reached out to my source earlier today about it and this I said, "What's the deal with [Charles] Melton and Beast?" and they responded "Melton is still in talks from what I understand. Just not a lock anymore. I think he wants more money." So, this could also be...an agent or a manager who is putting this out there on social media to see the reaction and be like, "Hey, look at the reaction. People are upset that we haven't locked on Melton for Beast. Pay my client his money so he can be there on Friday night and you can roll him out as part of the cast." So, there could be something even more like business-oriented once we look past the whole like 'I'd love to play an X-Men-type' thing, if there's any business to all of this...