Warner Bros. Television and DC Studios’ Green Lantern present, Lanterns, lastly has the go-ahead to maneuver ahead at HBO.
The straight-to-series order was introduced as we speak, giving its workforce the inexperienced mild it must ship eight episodes based mostly on DC will-powered heroes. It already has confirmed HBO expertise behind it, too, together with Chris Mundy (True Detective: Night Country, Ozark), who will function showrunner and government producer. Watchmen, The Leftovers, and Lost chief Damon Lindelof, and comedian e book legend Tom King, will function government producers whereas additionally co-writing the collection with Mundy.
HBO has launched an official logline for Lanterns: “The collection follows new recruit John Stewart and Lantern legend Hal Jordan, two intergalactic cops drawn right into a darkish, earth-based thriller as they examine a homicide within the American heartland.”
Lanterns will introduce fan-favorite DC heroes into James Gunn and Peter Safran’s new DC Universe (DCU) when it will definitely premieres. Further particulars on its story are nonetheless being saved beneath wraps.
“We’re thrilled to carry this seminal DC title to HBO with Chris, Damon and Tom on the helm,” co-CEOs Gunn and Safran mentioned in a joint assertion. “John Stewart and Hal Jordan are two of DC’s most compelling characters, and LANTERNS brings them to life in an unique detective story that may be a foundational a part of the unified DCU we’re launching subsequent summer time with ‘Superman.’”
Gunn first teased Lanterns when plotting out the highway forward for the DCU’s first chapter, Gods and Monsters. At the time, he described the Green Lantern present as a “True Detective-type thriller” that includes an historical horror on Earth.
Lanterns is simply lighting its torch, so there’s no phrase on a launch date but. We do at the least know that the DCU will correctly take off when Superman flies into the theaters on July 11, 2025. The movie will see the introduction of extra than simply David Corenswet’s model of the Man of Steel, although, as different main DC characters like Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult), Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan), and Mister Terrific (Edi Gathegi) are additionally set to make appearances. Gunn’s superhero film will even introduce audiences to a live-action Green Lantern within the type of Nathan Fillion’s Guy Gardner.
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