Green Lantern

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While the world awaits the premier of James Gunn’s highly anticipated Superman: Legacy, the man has a few other DC projects in the works to help round out his rebooted DC Universe. Yesterday (Feb. 27), he gave fans their first look at this upcoming HBO series, Lanterns.

Starring Aaron Pierre as John Stewart aka The Green Lantern, and Kyle Chandler as Hal Jordan aka The Green Lantern (they’re both Green Lanterns), the series will center around the superheroes coming down to Earth to investigate a murder that took place in rural Nebraska where Jordan shows the rookie, Stewart, the Lantern ropes. While we can only imagine the murders have some kind of ties to their world (Lanterns ain’t coming to Earth to investigate a simple homicide charge), the eight-episode series promises “darker mysteries” and “reckonings” being discovered as the show goes along.

While we don’t know if this will have any ties to Superman: Legacy (which is set to premier this Summer), the show is definitely sparking interest in comic book fans who’ve long awaited to see a proper iteration of The Green Lantern on film (Ryan Reynold’s 2011 Green Lantern flick was utter trash).
HBO’s Lanterns is set to debut sometime in 2026 and with a little luck, maybe the DCU will be in a better place than it is today for fans to really enjoy what James Gunn and his team got cooking by then.
Check out the first image for the series below and let us know if you’ll be checking for it in the comments section.
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