A new image shows us how Henry Cavill’s Superman and Ricky Whittle as Green Lantern John Stewart might be featured in a live action film.
After watching Ricky Whittle star in the Starz adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, it’s pretty clear that he has the chops to be featured on the silver screen soon enough. Ricky Whittle is on a long list of names fan-casted as John Stewart for the upcoming DC and Warner Bros. film Green Lantern Corps. Although the film doesn’t have a release date yet, and Geoff Johns is still writing it, fan artists sure like to imagine their favorite picks for the John Stewart role.
Salman Artworks give us a pretty good look at how the interaction between Henry Cavill’s Superman and Ricky Whittle’s John Stewart may appear in the DCEU. And it’s very accurate, to say the least. Check it out:
Aside from the fact that we still don’t know if Ricky Whittle will be selected to portray John Stewart, Henry Cavill’s future is also still unknown in the DCEU. There have been rumors coming back and forth of Henry Cavill’s involvement in the DCEU as Superman, but his social media posts indicate that he’s still very much involved with Superman. Nevertheless, there’s been no announcements regarding a Man Of Steel sequel featuring Henry Cavill mainly due to the fact the DC, Warner Bros. and himself are engaged in other several projects at the moment.
The long-in-development Green Lantern Corps is rumored to be a buddy-cop movie with an older, experienced Hal Jordan training the young recruit John Stewart in the ways of the Green Lantern Corps. Ricky Whittle is just one of many actors to have thrown his hat in the ring to play the character which also includes Common, Trevante Rhodes, Sterling K. Brown and of course Tyrese Gibson.
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Following Aquaman, which is now playing, the DCEU continues with Shazam! on April 5, 2019, which will be followed by Birds of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) on February 7, 2020, and Wonder Woman 1984 on June 5, 2020. A standalone Joker film set outside of the DC Films universe starring Joaquin Phoenix as the Clown Prince of Crime is also set to hit theaters October 4, 2019.
It seems we’ll be getting a Henry Cavill cameo as Superman in Shazam!. But until we find out, here is the synopsis for it:
We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson’s (Angel) case, by shouting out one word—SHAZAM!—this streetwise 14-year-old foster kid can turn into the adult Super Hero Shazam (Levi), courtesy of an ancient wizard. Still a kid at heart—inside a ripped, godlike body—Shazam revels in this adult version of himself by doing what any teen would do with superpowers: have fun with them! Can he fly? Does he have X-ray vision? Can he shoot lightning out of his hands? Can he skip his social studies test? Shazam sets out to test the limits of his abilities with the joyful recklessness of a child. But he’ll need to master these powers quickly in order to fight the deadly forces of evil controlled by Dr. Thaddeus Sivana (Strong).
Directed by David F. Sandberg, DC Shazam! stars Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Mark Strong, Jack Dylan Grazer, Grace Fulton, Faithe Herman, Ian Chen, Jovan Armand, Cooper Andrews, Marta Milans, and Ron Cephas.
Shazam! will be released in theaters on April 5, 2019.
Stay tuned to Heroic Hollywood for the latest news on the future of the current DC cinematic universe, the next Henry Cavill appearance in the DCEU and who will finally portray John Stewart in the Green Lantern Corps as we learn it.
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