LANTERNS Casts Kyle Chandler & Aaron Pierre as Green Lanterns Hal Jordan & John Stewart

 
In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape their sight.

Deadline has confirmed that the upcoming HBO TV series Lanterns, based on DC Comics' Green Lantern characters, has cast Kyle Chandler as Hal Jordan and Aaron Pierre as John Stewart.

According to the article, Lanterns "follows new recruit John Stewart (Pierre) and Lantern legend Hal Jordan (Chandler), two intergalactic cops drawn into a dark, Earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland."

The eight-episode series is from Ozark’s Chris Mundy, Watchmen‘s Damon Lindelof and comic book writer Tom King. Mundy will serve as showrunner, while Lindelof and King are co-writing and executive producing. James Hawes will direct the first two episodes and also service as executive producer.

Chandler, 59, is best known as Eric Taylor on the NBC series Friday Night Lights and has appeared in the films, King Kong (2005), The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), Super 8, Argo, Zero Dark Thirty, The Wolf of Wall Street, Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), and Godzilla vs. Kong.

Pierre, 30, is an English actor probably best known as Dev-Em on the DC Comics TV series Krypton. In addition, he'll be voicing Mufasa in the upcoming film Mufasa: The Lion King and appeared in the Amazon Prime Video miniseries The Underground Railroad.

Created in 1959 by John Broome and Gil Kane, Hal Jordan first appeared in Showcase #22 as Harold "Hal" Jordan, a test pilot for Ferris Aircraft who was selected by the dying Green Lantern Abin Sur to become his successor. Given a power ring and Green Lantern battery, which, in the hands of someone capable of overcoming great fear, he became able to channel his willpower into creating all manner of fantastic constructs. As Green Lantern, Hal fought crime on Earth, eventually joining the intergalactic police force called the Green Lantern Corps, and became a founding member of the Justice League.

Chandler will be the third actor to portray Hal Jordan in live action, after Howard Murphy in the 1978 TV special Legends of the Superheroes and Ryan Reynolds in the 2011 film Green Lantern.

Created in 1971 by Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams, John Stewart first appeared in Green Lantern (vol.2) #87 as an architect, later "retconned" into a veteran U.S. Marine from Detroit, Michigan, who was selected by the Guardians as a backup Green Lantern to then-current Green Lantern Hal Jordan after the previous backup, Guy Gardner, was seriously injured after getting hit by a car while trying to save a civilian. Although Jordan objected to the decision after seeing that Stewart had a belligerent attitude to authority figures, the Guardians stood by their decision and chided Jordan for his supposed bigoted outlook on the issue. After stopping a gunman from killing a police officer and observing that a politician had staged the attack for political advantage, Jordan concluded that Stewart was an excellent recruit and had proven his worth.

Pierre will be the first actor to portray John Stewart in live action, although the character has appeared in various animated projects such as Justice League Unlimited (voiced by Phil LaMarr) and Green Lantern: Beware My Power (voiced by Aldis Hodge).

Lanterns is expected to be released on HBO sometime in 2025.