Jason Ritter talks ‘Lanterns,' working up the nerve to ask to wear the power ring
Jason Ritter may not be playing a member of the fabled Green Lantern Corps in Lanterns, the upcoming Max series adaptation of DC Comics' Green Lantern mythos, but he wants you to know he's eager to don the power ring if called to duty.
'I have to say, personally for me, being a fan of Green Lantern growing up, getting to see the ring in person was cool to me,' Ritter told Gold Derby about admiring the intergalactic peacekeepers' iconic emerald ring on set. 'I haven't quite gotten to the point where I am like, 'Can I try that on?' I'm hoping to at some point to just try it on, say the oath really quick, see what happens.'
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Ritter plays Billy Macon, a character who may or may not have roots in the comic book canon. Macon is married to a dutiful small-town sheriff (Kelly Macdonald) and is the son of an outwardly charming but conspiracy-minded cowboy (Garret Dillahunt). The family becomes embroiled in a murder investigation conducted by Green Lanterns Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) and John Stewart (Aaron Pierre).
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Lanterns, Ritter said, has one foot in an adventurous, science-fiction-fueled superhero world, and the other firmly planted in more earthbound reality.
'It's both,' the Matlock star explained. 'It's very grounded. The performances all feel very real. Batman has always been sort of 'no magic,' in a city, a rich guy with a lot of cool, wonderful toys, as the Joker said, so there's that level of reality that suits The Penguin. Whereas Green Lantern can fly, can manifest things, and the universe is involved. So it's a much bigger world, but it does feel kind of rooted in reality.'
Ritter said that not only was he eager to sign on to a Green Lantern-driven project, but he's also excited to join Warner Bros.' new DC Universe roster of films and TV series, overseen by James Gunn and Peter Safran. This new slate formally launches throughout 2025 with Creature Commandos, Peacemaker's second season, and the big-screen Superman. The actor loves imagining how the tapestry will all come together.
He's also enjoyed diving into some of the fan theories percolating about his character online. 'I looked a lot when I first got cast, and I was very honored by some of the ideas before they announced who my character was,' he said, noting one particularly intriguing bit of speculation: that Ritter would be voicing a longtime fan-favorite member of the Green Lantern Corps.
'I don't actually know how you pronounce it because I've only read it, but Ch'p, the little squirrel,' Ritter laughs. 'I was like, 'Oh my gosh, that's so nice that you were saying that – That would be awesome!' [But] I can totally dispel that one. No, I'm a human man.'
'But the truth is, as we've seen before in these shows, a character who's one thing in one season can go through a change, evolve,' Ritter, who's halfway through shooting the eight-episode season, added. 'So I have no sense, aside from what's going on in this season, my character can have secrets that I don't yet know, not even having gotten a final episode yet.'
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