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A few weeks ago it was announced that Kyle Chandler was in talks to star as Hal Jordan aka The Green Lantern, in HBO’s upcoming DC series, Lanterns. Now, that cast seems to be growing as another rising star is set to join the fan favorite superhero group.
According to Variety, DC is rounding out their Green Lantern Corps. for the Lantern series as up-and- coming actor Aaron Pierre (Rebel Ridge) has been cast to star as another famous Green Lantern, John Stewart. While we know female comic book fans will be swooning at the news that the green eye’d bandit will be putting on some superhero tights and flexing his muscles, others are just happy to see that the series seems to be pushing forward as Lanterns has been said to be in the works for quite some time.
Though there is word that Lanterns may not be part of James Gunn’s main cinematic DCU and end up being an DC Elseworlds project (such as Joker and The Batman), it should still be a fun show to watch once it hits HBO sometime in the future.
Variety reports:
The show was picked up for eight episodes at HBO in June. Originally intended as a Max original, the show shifted to HBO as part of a new content delineation plan.
Per the official logline, the series follows “new recruit John Stewart and Lantern legend Hal Jordan, two intergalactic cops drawn into a dark, earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland.”
Lanterns is expected to begin filming in January of 2025 and is said to be akin to True Detective in its overall plot as Hal Jordan and John Stewart investigate a 187 here on Earth. It’ll be interesting to see which villain the two face off with in the series and if they’ll eventually make their way to James Gunn’s DCU.
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