After what seemed like decades, Green Lantern is finally a go at HBO. The cable outlet has given a straight-to-series order for Lanterns, based on long-running Green Lantern characters. More specifically, the show will focus on Hal Jordan and John Stewart from DC Comics. Chris Mundy will serve as showrunner on the eight-episode drama and co-write the series with Damon Lindelof and Tom King. King is known for his work on several high-profile DC titles like Batman, Mister Miracle, and Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.
Lanterns started off at HBO Max with a show from industry veteran Greg Berlanti, the mastermind behind the Arrowverse on The CW. That series was supposed to follow Lanterns Guy Gardner and Alan Scott. Seth Grahame-Smith was set to write and showrun with Finn Wittrock and Jeremy Irvine to star. After several leadership changes at DC, that have ended up with James Gunn and Peter Safran running DC Studios, the show is finally back on.
John Stewart was the first Black superhero to appear in DC Comics and has a generation of fans from the early-2000s Justice League cartoon series. Here’s what Safran had to say about the show at the big press event they held in 2023.
“Greg’s vision was more of a space opera that he wanted to do. Our vision is more True Detective, more of a terrestrial-based investigation story. We all agreed to part ways.”
Mundy is coming off the massively successful season of True Detective, Night Country. He was an executive producer and wrote two of the episodes. Here’s what Gunn and Safran had to say in a statement.
“We’re thrilled to bring this seminal DC title to HBO with Chris, Damon and Tom at the helm. John Stewart and Hal Jordan are two of DC’s most compelling characters, and Lanterns brings them to life in an original detective story that is a foundational part of the unified DCU we’re launching next summer with Superman.”
We’ll have to see when we get more details about the series, but DC is heating up as we get closer to the release of the first story in their new plan, Superman.
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