HBO is in the end signing up with the Lantern Corps.
The premium cable outlet has given a straight-to-series order for Lanterns, based mostly on the long-running Inexperienced Lantern characters — particularly John Stewart and Hal Jordan — from DC Comics. Chris Mundy (Ozark) will function showrunner on the eight-episode drama and co-write the sequence with Damon Lindelof (Watchmen, Misplaced) and Eisner Award winner Tom King, identified for his work on a number of Batman titles, Mister Miracle and Supergirl: Lady of Tomorrow for DC Comics.
The (ahem) inexperienced gentle for Lanterns comes virtually 5 years after what was then HBO Max started creating a Inexperienced Lantern sequence with producer Greg Berlanti — the mastermind of the DC Arrow-verse on The CW and one of many writers of the 2011 Inexperienced Lantern characteristic movie that starred Ryan Reynolds. The primary swing on the sequence was set to concentrate on Inexperienced Lanterns Man Gardner and Alan Scott. Seth Grahame-Smith got here aboard as author and showrunner, and the present solid Finn Wittrock and Jeremy Irvine as Gardner and Scott.
A inventive overhaul of the present in 2022, nonetheless, noticed Grahame-Smith depart (regardless of having written a full season’s value of scripts) and the present refocus round John Stewart, one other member of the Lantern Corps and the primary Black superhero to seem in DC Comics. The transforming of the present coincided with — however wasn’t attributable to — Warner Bros. Discovery’s set up of James Gunn and Peter Safran because the heads of DC Studios, charged with launching and managing a brand new DC Universe in movie and tv.
In early 2023, DC Studios scrapped the Berlanti-led Inexperienced Lantern present altogether in favor of Lanterns. “Greg’s imaginative and prescient was extra of an area opera that he needed to do,” Safran mentioned at a press occasion unveiling the brand new DC slate. “Our imaginative and prescient is extra True Detective, extra of a terrestrial-based investigation story. All of us agreed to half methods.”
Maybe not coincidentally, Mundy is coming off of HBO’s True Detective: Evening Nation, the place he was an government producer and wrote two episodes. He additionally earned 5 Emmy nominations for writing and producing Netflix’s vastly profitable drama Ozark.
“We’re thrilled to convey this seminal DC title to HBO with Chris, Damon and Tom on the helm,” Gunn and Safran mentioned in an announcement. “John Stewart and Hal Jordan are two of DC’s most compelling characters, and Lanterns brings them to life in an authentic detective story that could be a foundational a part of the unified DCU we’re launching subsequent summer season with Superman.”
Added Casey Bloys, chairman and CEO of HBO and Max Content material, “We’re elated to be reuniting with each Chris Mundy and Damon Lindelof as they associate with Tom for this contemporary tackle DC’s Inexperienced Lantern. As a part of James and Peter’s imaginative and prescient for the DC Universe, this primary new live-action sequence will mark an thrilling new period.”
Warner Bros. Tv and DC Studios will produce Lanterns. Mundy, Lindelof and King are government producing and writing the sequence.