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Lanterns
Genre
Created by
Based onCharacters from DC
ShowrunnerChris Mundy
Starring
Music byStephanie Economou
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes6
Production
Executive producers
ProducerKiegan Downs
Production locationLos Angeles
Cinematography
Editors
  • Vikash Patel
  • Robert Abilez
  • Emily E. Greene
  • Matthew V. Colonna
Running time52–57 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkHBO
ReleaseAugust 16, 2026 (2026-08-16) –
present
Related
DCU TV series

Lanterns is an American superhero television series created by Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof, and Tom King for HBO, based on the DC Comics Green Lantern characters Hal Jordan and John Stewart. It is the third television series in the DC Universe (DCU). It features experienced Lantern Jordan and new recruit Stewart as they investigate a murder on Earth that leads to a wider mystery. The series was produced by DC Studios and Warner Bros. Television with Mundy serving as showrunner.

Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre respectively star as the Lanterns Hal Jordan and John Stewart, alongside Kelly Macdonald, Garret Dillahunt, Poorna Jagannathan and Ulrich Thomsen. Greg Berlanti began developing a Green Lantern television series by October 2019. After James Gunn and Peter Safran became co-CEOs of DC Studios in October 2022, the series was redeveloped. It was announced in January 2023, along with its detective story style, which was inspired by the series True Detective (2014–present) and Slow Horses (2022–present). The involvement of Mundy, Lindelof, and King was confirmed in mid-2024 when HBO ordered the series. Slow Horses's James Hawes was hired to direct the first two episodes in October, when Chandler and Pierre were cast. Filming took place in Los Angeles from February to July 2025, with Stephen Williams, Geeta Vasant Patel, and Alik Sakharov also directing.

Lanterns premiered on August 16, 2026, and will run for eight episodes through October 4. It is part of the DCU's Chapter One: Gods and Monsters.

Premise

Green Lanterns are interstellar peacekeepers who wear rings that give them extraordinary powers. The series follows experienced Lantern Hal Jordan and new recruit John Stewart as they investigate a murder in Rushville, Nebraska, which Hal believes is an extraterrestrial incident and leads them to darker mysteries and reckonings.[1][2]

Cast and characters

Picture of the Lanterns panel featuring Chris Mundy, Aaron Pierre, Kyle Chandler, Damon Lindelof, Poorna Jagannathan, Garret Dillahunt, Tom King, and Nathan Fillion at San Diego Comic Con 2026
Showrunner Chris Mundy, stars Aaron Pierre and Kyle Chandler, co-creator Damon Lindelof, co-stars Poorna Jagannathan and Garret Dillahunt, co-creator Tom King, and guest star Nathan Fillion promoting Lanterns at the 2026 San Diego Comic-Con

Main

  • Kyle Chandler as Hal Jordan / Green Lantern:
    A USAF veteran, former test pilot and legendary member of the Green Lantern Corps,[1][3] who is responsible for protecting Sector 2814.[4] In the series, Hal is approaching retirement,[1][3] and is filling in to train John Stewart.[5] The Guardians of the Universe, who founded and lead the Corps, are concerned about what Hal may or may not have inherited from his former mentor Thaal Sinestro.[6] The writers took inspiration for the character from Sam Shepard's portrayal of Chuck Yeager in the film The Right Stuff (1983). Showrunner Chris Mundy felt Chandler had the same qualities as well as a "dry wit" that they felt was important for Hal.[1]
  • Aaron Pierre as John Stewart:
    A new Green Lantern recruit whom Hal is training to replace himself.[1][7] John is considered an anomaly because he is the first Green Lantern in the Corps' history to have been recruited by the Guardians of the Universe instead of being chosen by a power ring, as is customary.[2] Mundy said the character was both a Marine and an artistic architect,[8][9] and felt Pierre could portray both of these aspects. He said Pierre was a "serious theater actor, yet he also looks like he was built in a lab to be an action star".[1] Director James Hawes said Pierre had "a magnificent presence. He feels so forceful, so cool, so understated."[9] Jayce Eiland and Cairo Cash Lee portray John as a child and a teenager, respectively, in flashback scenes.[10][11]
  • Kelly Macdonald as Kerry Kane:
    A sheriff deeply devoted to her family and close-knit town of Rushville, Nebraska,[12][2] who gets territorial upon the arrival of the "big-shot" Green Lanterns.[13] Originally from Gotham City,[14] Kerry is a love interest for Hal in the series.[15]
  • Garret Dillahunt as William "Will" Macon: Kerry's father-in-law, described as a modern cowboy who hides his "self-righteous, conspiracy-minded" personality behind a charming façade[16]
  • Poorna Jagannathan as Zoe Macon: A Manhunter posing as William's human wife.[17] Zoe was described as someone who is "as composed and cunning [as] the influential men around her",[18] and is a potential love interest for John.[13]
  • Ulrich Thomsen as Thaal Sinestro:
    A "ruthless yet undeniably charming" former Green Lantern, and Hal's mentor and father figure,[19][20] who went rogue after the corrupting yellow energy of fear consumed him.[2] Sinestro was expelled from the Green Lantern Corps after a failed coup,[6] during which he killed one of the twelve Guardians of the Universe,[21] and is imprisoned in space as of 2016,[22] though he had escaped by 2026.[23]

Recurring

  • Jason Ritter as Billy Macon: Kerry's lawyer husband and William's son who does his father's bidding.[24][25] Several years following the events of 2016, Billy and Kerry had a divorce.[26]
  • J. Alphonse Nicholson as John Stewart Sr.: John's father who is in the military[27]
  • Paul Ben-Victor as Antaan: An extraterrestrial leader who is "devoted to exposing the truth and exacting vengeance against those who wronged his people" and delivers his own brand of justice[28]
  • Jasmine Cephas Jones as Bernadette Stewart: John's mother[29]
  • Laura Linney as Lianna: A member of the Guardians of the Universe who selects John as a potential Lantern recruit[30]
  • Cary Christopher and Shea Pritchard as Noah Macon: Kerry and Billy's son and William's grandson who is a charming, polite, and gifted small-town child. Christopher portrays Noah as a child in 2016, while Pritchard portrays Noah as a teenager in 2026.[31][26]
  • Jared Grimes as Marcus Stewart: John's younger brother. Noah Gibson-Slates and Richard Whitney Gardenhire Jr. portray Marcus respectively as a child and teenager.[26]
  • Romeo Brown as Aaron Stewart: John's older brother. Lumi Oniyide and Jaylen Lyndon Hunter portray Aaron respectively as a child and teenager.[32]

Guest

  • Chris Coy as "Waylon Sanders": An alien who disguises himself as a nervous truck driver[33][34]
  • Sergio Lanza as a Green Lantern recruiter[35]
  • Jason Manuel Olazabal as Hector Gutiérrez: An engineer forced by William to pose as Hector Hammond, owner of Atlas Inc., who operates various high-tech slaughterhouses[36]
  • Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner / Green Lantern: An abrasive Green Lantern and member of the Justice Gang.[37][6] Fillion described the character as the "last [Green Lantern] you want" in an emergency. Fillion said Guy is a "little bit higher strung" in Lanterns compared to his introduction in the DC Universe (DCU) film Superman (2025), and that he enjoyed exploring the character in a new environment.[38]
  • Hannah Christine Shetler as Maggie: A waitress who works at a café in Rushville[26]
  • Amie MacKenzie as Carol Ferris: Hal's former love interest[26]
  • Michael Ocampo as Lopez: A deputy at Rushville[32]

Additionally, Paula Patton has been cast in an undisclosed role.[39]

Episodes

No.Title [40]Directed byWritten by [41]Original release date [40]U.S. viewers
(millions)
1"Pilot"James HawesChris Mundy & Damon Lindelof & Tom KingAugust 16, 2026 (2026-08-16)0.63[42]
Years ago, Hal Jordan is chosen as the successor of Green Lantern Abin Sur after he dies. In 2016, Hal and John Stewart have a mentor-mentee relationship and travel to Rushville, Nebraska after John receives a cryptic message from a holographic projection of Hal's younger consciousness within his power ring. John helps Sheriff Kerry Kane capture a suspect involved in a mass shooting, but Kerry forbids Hal from joining the investigation, believing the case has no extraterrestrial connection. Hal gets himself arrested for a bar fight and is bailed out by Billy Macon, a lawyer and Kerry's husband. In return, he agrees to meet Kerry's father-in-law William, who arranges for Hal to interrogate the suspect, Waylon Sanders. During the interrogation, Hal exposes Waylon as an alien; Waylon detonates his body but Hal uses the last of his ring's power to contain the damage. In 2026, John returns to Rushville, where Kerry shows him a dead Hal with his ring also missing.
2"Trust Fall"James HawesVanessa Baden Kelly & Chris MundyAugust 23, 2026 (2026-08-23)0.56[43]
In 2016, with his ring nearly depleted, Hal sends John back to Coast City to retrieve his lantern while he continues investigating the shooting. Learning that the stadium's metal detectors secretly contain alien-detecting technology, Hal convinces Kerry to let him question William. William refuses to cooperate and, when Hal refuses to leave, has him shot by a sniper. Hal later wakes up in the hospital, where he and Kerry reach an understanding. After retrieving Hal's power battery and Green Lantern suit, John is kidnapped by aliens associated with Waylon. Their leader Antaan reveals that they came to Rushville searching for a Manhunter, an artificial being that caused the genocide of their entire race. The aliens threaten to destroy Rushville and give John 48 hours to find the Manhunter. John informs Hal, who travels to a prison off-world to interrogate Thaal Sinestro, his former mentor and a rogue Green Lantern, about the Manhunters, but Sinestro shows interest in John.
3"OutKast"Stephen WilliamsVanessa Baden KellyAugust 30, 2026 (2026-08-30)0.69[44]
In the past, John's father, John Sr., fails a test to become a Green Lantern, leaving him traumatized. Later, Lianna, a member of the Guardians of the Universe, visits John's mother, Bernadette, and offers the family recompense by giving John a chance to join the Green Lantern Corps in the future. When John is five years old, his parents train him to be fearless. Years later, John joins the United States Marine Corps and is assigned an assassination mission, but Hal's intervention causes it to fail. John is dishonorably discharged, and Bernadette enrolls him in art school so he can pursue his passion. In 2016, a Guardians recruiter approaches John, who successfully passes his test. Lianna interviews him and accepts him as the new Green Lantern, but only under Hal's guidance as his apprentice. John returns home and finds Hal, who has told his parents the news, but privately tells John he does not need a sidekick or intend to hand over his ring.
4"The Weenie"Geeta Vasant PatelBreannah GibsonSeptember 6, 2026 (2026-09-06)0.39[45]
In 2016, Sinestro gives Hal information about the Manhunters and suggests delivering the Manhunter to the Guardians to prove John is unfit to replace him. John is visited by Lianna, who urges him to take Hal's ring and replace him. Suspecting William's benefactor is at his ranch, Hal and John infiltrate the property and discover an armory of high-tech weapons, but are captured after triggering an alarm. William reveals he is protecting the benefactor's identity in exchange for ensuring Rushville's safety. Later, William's wife Zoe secretly meets John but fails to convince him to leave town. Soon after her truck is destroyed by an orbital strike and she apparently dies. Hal traces the attack to Atlas, Inc. owner Hector Hammond, who claims to be a decoy and identifies William as the Manhunter. However, Hal later deduces that Zoe is the Manhunter and that John already knew it. After having John call Antaan to arrange a meeting, Hal jumps from their car and causes it to crash, leaving John inside.
5"Lights Out"Geeta Vasant PatelJustin Britt-GibsonSeptember 13, 2026 (2026-09-13)0.46[46]
John gets trapped in the car and Hal leaves him for dead; John suffers severe burns in an explosion, but Zoe later saves and heals him in the hospital with alien technology. Hal confronts Kerry, who begs him to leave town before Zoe destroys Rushville, but he refuses. He later meets Antaan and convinces him to pursue William. Antaan and his men attack William's ranch, where Antaan kills William after realizing he is not the Manhunter. Hal tries to stop Zoe after she orders orbital strikes that destroy Rushville, and also stops Antaan when he detonates himself. Hal returns to the motel to recharge his ring, but John ambushes him in an attempt to take it. Zoe calls in a strike that destroys the motel, trapping Hal in the debris. She arrives to kill him, but John fatally shoots her from a distance. He takes Zoe's heart and Hal's ring, leaving Hal behind. John then meets Lianna in a bar, where he hands her the heart and the ring, and declines her offer to become the Green Lantern.
6"Bad Optics"Stephen WilliamsJustin Britt-Gibson & Damon LindelofSeptember 20, 2026 (2026-09-20)TBD
In 2026, John has become an architect and works with his brother Marcus. His mother tells him that Hal, who has been living in Rushville to make amends for the 2016 incident, wants to apologize. John meets Hal at a café, but they fail to reconcile, and John breaks his nose. After returning home, John learns from Kerry, who began a relationship with Hal, that Hal has died. John uses a beacon set up by Guy Gardner to summon him to Rushville, where he is met with hostility from Billy and the townspeople. A fight breaks out, forcing Kerry to arrest John. The next day, Guy visits John, who asks him to retrieve Hal's suit and ring for his funeral. Guy also reveals that Sinestro has escaped from prison. After leaving the station, John encounters Maggie, a waitress from the café, who demands compensation for the damage he caused her family in 2016 or she will tell Kerry that he was the one who broke Hal's nose. After Hal's funeral, John digs up his grave, takes his ring, and summons the hologram.
7"The Jordan Boys Legacy"[47]TBADamon Lindelof & Tom KingSeptember 27, 2026 (2026-09-27)TBD
8TBATBAChris Mundy & Damon Lindelof & Tom KingOctober 4, 2026 (2026-10-04)TBD

Alik Sakharov also directed episodes.[1]

Production

Background

Greg Berlanti, the producer of multiple DC Comics–based television series, announced that he was developing a series based on the Green Lantern characters for the streaming service HBO Max in October 2019. Berlanti had previously co-written the film Green Lantern (2011).[48] In January 2020, he said the series would span several decades and tell two stories about Green Lanterns on Earth, as well as a story about the villainous character Sinestro in space.[49] The series was officially picked up for a 10-episode season by HBO Max that October. Marc Guggenheim, who also co-wrote the Green Lantern film, and Seth Grahame-Smith were revealed to be writing the series, with Grahame-Smith serving as showrunner.[50] The series could not make use of the main Green Lanterns from the comic books, Hal Jordan and John Stewart, because they were being reserved for DC Extended Universe (DCEU) films.[51] Instead, the series was set to explore other Green Lanterns from the comics, including Guy Gardner, Jessica Cruz, Simon Baz, Alan Scott, Kilowog, and new Green Lanterns created for the series.[50]

In April 2021, the series was revealed to primarily focus on Scott, a secretly gay FBI agent in 1941 who becomes Earth's first Green Lantern, and Gardner, an "embodiment of 1980s hyper-patriotism", alongside the half-alien Bree Jarta in 1984. Finn Wittrock was cast as Gardner after Berlanti received permission from producer Ryan Murphy for the actor to prioritize Green Lantern over the planned second season of Murphy's Netflix series Ratched (2020). An actor was in negotiations to portray Scott. The series was said to be the most expensive in Berlanti's career and was expected to begin filming later in 2021. Berlanti had been writing with Grahame-Smith and Guggenheim, who were all serving as executive producers alongside Geoff Johns, Sarah Schechter, David Madden, and David Katzenberg.[52] Pornsak Pichetshote, who previously served as an editor for DC's Vertigo Comics imprint and was an executive at DC Entertainment overseeing its television content, was later revealed to be part of the writers' room as well.[53] Jeremy Irvine was revealed to be in talks to portray Scott in May,[54] and was officially cast soon after.[55] Lee Toland Krieger was hired to direct the first two episodes at the end of the month.[56] In August 2021, Wittrock said filming would begin at the end of the year or in early 2022.[57]

In April 2022, Discovery, Inc. and Warner Bros.' parent company WarnerMedia merged to become Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), led by president and CEO David Zaslav. The new company was expected to restructure DC Entertainment while Zaslav began searching for an equivalent to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige to lead the new subsidiary.[58] In June, Irvine said there was no scheduled start date for filming the series and the production was working on "getting all the stars to align".[59] A month later, the series was reaffirmed to be in development despite the cancellation of other HBO Max and DC projects by WBD.[60] In October 2022, Grahame-Smith was revealed to have left the series, which was being redeveloped to focus on Stewart.[61] James Gunn and Peter Safran were announced as the co-chairs and co-CEOs of the newly formed DC Studios at the end of that month.[62] A week after starting their new roles, the pair had begun developing an eight-to-ten-year plan for a new DC Universe (DCU) that would be a "soft reboot" of the DCEU.[63][64][65]

Development

Picture of Chris Mundy at the 2026 San Diego Comic-Con
Picture of Damon Lindelof speaking at the 2026 San Diego Comic-Con
Picture of Tom King at the 2026 San Diego Comic-Con
Showrunner Chris Mundy co-created Lanterns with Damon Lindelof and Tom King, who pitched the series' concept. The trio wrote its series bible and drew inspiration for the grounded buddy cop detective approach and tone from the crime drama True Detective and the spy thriller Slow Horses. Mundy and Lindelof were hired in part for their work within the crime and mystery genres.

Gunn said in December 2022 that Green Lantern characters would be an important part of the new DCU.[66] On January 31, 2023, he and Safran unveiled the first projects from their DCU slate, which begins with Chapter One: Gods and Monsters. The third television series in the slate was Lanterns, a new iteration of the long-in-development Green Lantern series. This version features the two best-known Green Lanterns, Hal Jordan and John Stewart, and Safran said it would be an Earth-based detective story rather than the space opera that Berlanti had envisioned. He said the series would be an "HBO-quality event" in the style of crime drama series True Detective (2014–present),[67] and spy thriller series Slow Horses (2022–present).[1] The mystery that Jordan and Stewart investigate leads into the main storyline for the DCU, so the series was an important project for Gunn and Safran.[67]

Damon Lindelof was consulting on the series as a producer by January 2024, when it was said to be a priority project for the streaming service Max, the successor to HBO Max.[68][69] The following month, Chris Mundy was reported to be serving as showrunner while Tom King, a member of the DC Studios writers' room, was also attached as a producer.[69] Gunn confirmed the involvement of Mundy, King, and Lindelof in May 2024.[70] King had originally pitched the concept for the series, and Mundy was hired by Gunn and Safran based on his work on the crime drama Ozark (2017–2022) as well as the fourth season of True Detective (2024). Mundy and King began developing the series together and enlisted Lindelof, who created the DC Comics–based limited series Watchmen (2019). Lindelof agreed to join because of his love for Ozark and King's comic books.[1] Mundy, Lindelof, and King are credited as the series's creators.[25]

The series received an eight-episode straight-to-series order from Max's corporate sibling channel HBO in June 2024, when Mundy was confirmed as showrunner and executive producer.[71][72] The move to HBO was made after WBD decided to shift many of its planned big-budget Max series based on their own intellectual property to be HBO originals instead; Lanterns was expected to still stream on Max in addition to airing on HBO.[73] Each episode was expected to have an approximate hour-long runtime.[74] DC Studios was meeting with possible directors for the series' pilot by September, including Stephen Williams who worked with Lindelof on Watchmen.[75] James Hawes, who directed the first season of Slow Horses, was hired to direct the first two episodes of Lanterns and serve as an executive producer the next month.[76] In February 2025, Williams was confirmed to be directing for the series, alongside Geeta Vasant Patel and Alik Sakharov,[1] while Ron Schmidt joined as an executive producer the following month.[25]

Also in February 2025, Safran stated that the series could continue beyond its first season.[77] Mundy added that Lanterns would stand alone from other DC Studios projects and was designed to tell a complete story, but he hoped that it could expand to have multiple seasons.[1] Lanterns was expected to be a multi-season series by May 2026,[2] when television and comic book writer Christopher Cantwell was hired to work on a potential second season as a writer, executive producer, and co-showrunner alongside Mundy.[78][79][80] Lindelof and King did not return as writers because of their commitments to the HBO series The Chain and the DCU animated series Mister Miracle, respectively, though King remained involved in some capacity. A writers' room had been working on the season for more than a month, around six weeks, by that August, but HBO was waiting to greenlight a second season until after the series premiered later that month to gauge its critical and audience reception and viewership ratings.[80][81] On the potential demand for a second season, Mundy stated, "We feel good that we told the story in season one well. The question is whether [season two] is a story people are interested in. If that's the case, then we'll get to do another one. We'll tell it in a slightly different way, so that it feels fresh, with characters you know and care about." He added that they were "just in the breaking-story stages" and that they would discuss it with HBO and DC Studios executives "really soon" once they had mapped out a whole season.[81]

Writing

Mundy, King, and Lindelof had written the pilot script and series bible for Lanterns by the end of May 2024, when they were assembling a full writers' room. Justin Britt-Gibson, Breannah Gibson, and Vanessa Baden are also writers on the series.[70][41] They were present on set to answer questions regarding comic book history and instructed the actors to have a holistic understanding of Jordan and Stewart's characters rather than reading comics from a specific time period.[8] King also took inspiration from his experience as a CIA counterterrorism officer.[82] Britt-Gibson previously worked with Lindelof on the script for an untitled Star Wars film.[83] Writing for the series was completed by the start of filming in February 2025.[1]

Lanterns unfolds across two storylines: the first, set in 2016, involves a murder in Rushville, Nebraska, which Jordan believes to be an extraterrestrial incident; and the second, connected to the murder, takes place in 2026. Mundy likened the story's structure to the "emotional mysteries" in the first season of True Detective (2014), which he described as less of a traditional whodunit and more of an exploration of why the mystery takes place, bound by the relationship between Jordan and Stewart in Lanterns that Mundy compared to the characters Rust Cohle and Marty Hart from True Detective.[2] The series primarily occurs in Sheridan County, Nebraska, with some scenes taking place in Iowa.[84] It does not adapt any specific storylines from the comics, though Mundy said it is "steeped" in the Green Lantern comic book lore, as the main characters possess power rings, the primary weapons of the Green Lantern Corps and the source of their powers, while other aspects of the lore are either seen or referenced in the series. However, the series is more grounded than the comics. Mundy said he was excited to create "something really grounded inside this big, amazing mythology. From the beginning, all we talked about was, how can we take all the things we loved about the source material and turn it into a layered, human HBO drama?" He wanted the series to be accessible to audiences unfamiliar with the comics' history, yet satisfying to those who were.[1] Mundy emphasized the series spanning across various timeframes and the presence of the buddy cop elements, noting that Jordan and Stewart would act as "opposing forces" in season one.[8]

Gunn was excited for the series to have a different tone from the first DCU film Superman (2025), despite that project also featuring a Green Lantern in Guy Gardner,[77] whom Mundy described as "fabulously obnoxious" and said would appear at "a few different times" in the series; the events of Superman occur between the two settings of the series.[2] His role was aligned with the series' 2026 storyline and would connect to that film. Mundy explained the creative team had full creative freedom over the story and were not required to make it adhere to any other DCU projects.[85] He further elaborated that the story did not have any required "specific landing point," feeling particularly satisfied with Stewart's characterization.[86] Gunn also explained that Lanterns would feature the interdimensional prison Salvation and the organization Checkmate—both elements introduced in "Full Nelson", the season two finale of Peacemaker (2025)—and that the series would be "really important in setting up things" in the wider context of the DCU.[87][88]

Casting

Kyle Chandler at San Diego Comic-Con 2026
Aaron Pierre at San Diego Comic-Con 2026
Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre headline Lanterns as the Green Lantern members Hal Jordan and John Stewart.

In December 2022, Gunn stated actor Ryan Reynolds would not reprise his role as Hal Jordan from the Green Lantern film.[89] Nathan Fillion was cast as Guy Gardner for Superman in July 2023,[90] and he was expected to co-star in the series by September 2024.[75][91] At that time, Josh Brolin was revealed to have been offered the role of Jordan at the end of August. The actor was looking for a new television role following the cancellation of his series Outer Range (2022–2024) and had previously played the DC Comics character Jonah Hex in the 2010 film of the same name. Jordan was expected to be the gruff, older partner similar to Danny Glover's Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon films. DC Studios was looking to cast a younger, "fresh-faced" Black actor as John Stewart, who was expected to be in his 20s.[75][92] Matthew McConaughey and Ewan McGregor were also in consideration for Jordan if a deal with Brolin could not be finalized.[93] Brolin passed on the role soon after his potential involvement was reported,[92] saying it "didn't work out",[94] and McConaughey was also not expected to be cast.[92]

Kyle Chandler was in negotiations to portray Jordan by the end of September,[95][96] while Aaron Pierre and Stephan James were in the mix to portray Stewart.[97] Gunn had almost cast Pierre as Adam Warlock in his Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023),[98] and the actor previously portrayed Dev-Em in the DC Comics–based series Krypton (2018–2019).[99] Damson Idris was also on the shortlist to portray Stewart before a scheduling conflict arose.[97] Screen tests for Pierre and James were held in early October with Chandler.[76][98] On October 9, Pierre was cast as Stewart and Chandler was confirmed to be cast as Jordan.[3][7] Kelly Macdonald was cast in the main role of Sheriff Kerry at the end of the month.[12][16] Garret Dillahunt and Poorna Jagannathan were cast in the major recurring roles of William Macon and Zoe, respectively, in November,[16][18] and Ulrich Thomsen was cast in January 2025 to recur in the series as Thaal Sinestro.[19] In March, Nicole Ari Parker, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Sherman Augustus, J. Alphonse Nicholson, and Jason Ritter were respectively cast in the recurring roles of Stewart's mother Bernadette, a younger version of Bernadette,[100][29] Stewart's father John Sr., a younger version of John Sr.,[101][27] and Billy Macon,[25] while Fillion was confirmed to be appearing.[37]

In April 2025, Chris Coy and Paul Ben-Victor were cast to guest star as "Waylon Sanders" and recur as Antaan, respectively;[33][28] Ben-Victor previously voiced Bulldozer of the Easy Company in the first DCU animated series Creature Commandos (2024–present).[102] In late May, Laura Linney was reported to be part of the cast.[103] In August, Cary Christopher was revealed to have a guest-starring role as young Noah,[31] and Paula Patton was also revealed to have a role in the series.[39] Linney's casting was confirmed in May 2026,[104] and in July, she was revealed to be portraying a member of the Guardians of the Universe named Lianna.[105][30]

Design

Cynthia Summers and John Paino were, respectively, the costume and production designers.[85][106] The production team created 20 designs for the Lantern before finalizing it.[85] Jordan and Stewart both wear civilian clothing throughout the series,[107] with Jordan's dusty leather jacket and salt-and-pepper hair resembling his appearance in the 1990s Green Lantern comics drawn by Pat Broderick that featured an older Jordan with white streaks of hair.[108] Jordan's Green Lantern suit in the series is a muted, faded green jacket, contrasting the more colorful and poppy green-and-black suits that the characters are typically depicted wearing. The suit's design is reminiscent of the ones in Gabriel Hardman and Corinna Bechko's Green Lantern: Earth One (2018–2020) graphic novels, which also feature a more grounded approach.[109] Summers stated they did not want Jordan's suit to resemble a futuristic sci-fi aesthetic.[85]

Filming

Principal photography began during the week of February 17, 2025, in Los Angeles, California,[1][110] as well as at Warner Bros. Studios Burbank in Burbank, California,[111] under the working title Latitude.[112] Armando Salas and Florian Hoffmeister served as cinematographers.[113][114] The Stewart family home was created on Stage 19 of the Burbank lot.[85] Filming was previously expected to occur in Atlanta, Georgia, from January to June.[92] Gunn and Safran worked with WBD to get the tax credits and studio deals necessary to move the production from Atlanta, where Gunn filmed Superman, to Los Angeles. Safran said they were thrilled to be filming in the city and supporting locals following the January 2025 Southern California wildfires.[110] Scenes set in Rushville, Nebraska were filmed in Piru, California, with its main street location doubling for downtown Rushville. A diner was also built in the town while the wardrobe department was located in the town's Corazon de Piru business.[85] Hawes said comparisons to True Detective were valid due to Mundy's writing and the buddy cop structure, but Lanterns had more humor than that series. He compared it to films with "Americana heart" such as Fargo (1996) and No Country for Old Men (2007).[9] Mundy said Hawes's direction for the first two episodes captured the scope he was hoping for.[1]

Williams, Patel, and Sakharov directed additional episodes for the series.[1] Four episodes had been filmed by early May,[115] when Hawes wrapped filming his episodes.[116] At that time, filming was about to begin on the third and fourth episodes. Ritter said that the story was "jumping all around".[115] Filming was more than halfway finished by mid-June,[38] and Thomsen said filming for his scenes concluded by the end of July.[117] Pierre confirmed that production had wrapped by at least that October. He also said that the filmmakers extensively discussed the characters' flaws on set, and noted that the characters "do their best to redeem themselves actively".[118]

Post-production

Emily E. Greene was an editor on the series.[119]

Music

Stephanie Economou was revealed to be composing the score for the series in May 2026.[120]

Marketing

Promotional on-set image of Aaron Pierre and Kyle Chandler, which revealed their grounded civilian costumes and was subject to much discussion about the series' tone and approach to the characters.

A first-look promotional image of Pierre's John Stewart and Chandler's Hal Jordan was released in February 2025.[1] Armando Tinoco of Deadline Hollywood described the pair as "looking ready for action",[15] while Rachel Leishman at The Mary Sue admired their appearances, dubbing the image "hot". She questioned whether the extent of Jordan's role would be limited to a single season because the image only featured one Green Lantern power ring.[121] Germain Lussier at Gizmodo was surprised by the grounded tone and the characters' civilian clothing, describing it as depicting "Two dudes, standing on the street, looking like hell. And almost no green at all." He felt the image aligned with the series's Earth-based setting and was what DC Studios was ready to show, considering that filming had only recently started. He expected later promotional material to depict some more cosmic elements.[107] Other commentators also addressed the notable absence of the characters' traditional Green Lantern suits and how the image's gritty and grounded tone contrasted the superhero and space opera aspects that many would have expected from a Green Lantern adaptation.[122]

A teaser trailer was shown at HBO Max's upfront presentation in São Paulo, Brazil, on November 25, 2025. Matthew Aguilar at ComicBook.com felt the footage offered exciting elements and "plenty of room for rich dynamics" between Jordan and Stewart, as well as how the series incorporates the characters' cosmic aspects while maintaining focus on the grounded plot.[5] The first footage was released on December 12 during an HBO Max sizzle reel for their 2026 projects, with Marco Vito Oddo of ComicBook.com opining that the footage conveyed Jordan and Stewart's "friction-heavy" relationship while establishing the stakes as being "life and death at the very beginning".[123] The teaser trailer was released online on March 4, 2026,[124] a day earlier than intended after it had leaked online.[109] Discussion of the teaser trailer focused on the grounded True Detective buddy cop nature of the series and its correlation to the Green Lantern mythos.[108][125][126] While Jennifer Ouellette at Ars Technica felt the teaser was light on revealing plot details, she described it as "tonally unique for the DCU" and one of her most-anticipated series for the year.[126] Joe George at Den of Geek commended that Chandler "fully looks the part" of the older Jordan from the 1990s Green Lantern comics. He contrasted Jordan's calm yet cocky demeanour to Mel Gibson's Martin Riggs from the Lethal Weapon films and Andy Samberg's Jake Peralta from the television series Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013–2021).[108] Some commentators questioned the absence of the more fantastical elements typically associated with the Green Lantern characters, comparing Lanterns more to the X-Men film Logan (2017) as well as the television series Yellowstone (2018–2024) and Reacher (2022–present).[127] The teaser featured the song "State Trooper" by Bruce Springsteen,[109] but was temporarily taken down the following month due to an expired music license, before being re-uploaded with a different musical score.[13] Nick Romano at Entertainment Weekly explained that this was a "fairly common practice when it comes to trailer and teaser assets that contain licensed tracks", and refuted speculation that its removal stemmed from comments Lindelof made joking about the lack of the color green in marketing up to that point.[13]

A second teaser trailer was released on May 18, 2026.[104] The trailer was noted by commentators for the appearances of Linney and Thomsen's Sinestro; the discussion of fear, relating to the Yellow Lantern Corps; and for showcasing Jordan wearing his Green Lantern suit and using his power ring to create green constructs, both of which were not present in previous marketing material.[128] George further praised Chandler's performance and noted that "many of the promos and interviews leading into the show have been strangely reluctant to embrace the franchise's sci-fi roots, [...] even stripping the color green from the series' title and marketing".[129] Tom Power at TechRadar believed the inclusion of such elements in this trailer was a direct response to criticsm and concerns about the lack of comics-accurate aspects in the first trailer,[130] while Scott Davis at SciFiNow felt the trailer was an improvement over the first, calling it "much more impressive".[131] The official trailer was revealed at San Diego Comic-Con on July 24, 2026, during a panel at Hall H; the panel was joined by the series's co-creators Mundy, Lindelof, and King, alongside cast members Pierre, Chandler, Dillahunt, Jagannathan, and Fillion.[34] At the panel, Mundy revealed Linney's role.[105]

Release

Lanterns premiered on August 16, 2026,[132] airing on HBO and streaming on HBO Max,[124] and will consist of eight episodes,[71] releasing weekly until October 4.[40] It is part of the DCU's Chapter One: Gods and Monsters.[67] Gunn said in November 2024 that he intended for the series to be released around the same time as the DCU film Supergirl, which was scheduled for release in June 2026.[133] In February 2025, Gunn and Safran stated that they could "safely" say the series would premiere in early 2026.[134] However, Aaron Couch and Borys Kit of The Hollywood Reporter reported in October 2025 that Supergirl would be the next DCU project released following Peacemaker season 2 and subsequently clarified that they expected Lanterns to release after Supergirl instead.[135] The following month, Lanterns was reaffirmed for an expected early 2026 debut in Warner Bros. Discovery's third-quarter shareholder letter. However, at the end of the month, HBO and HBO Max chairman and CEO Casey Bloys announced that Lanterns would premiere at the "end of summer" 2026.[136] In March 2026, the series was revealed to premiere that August.[124]

Reception

Viewership

The premiere attracted 9.3 million viewers worldwide during its first three days on HBO and HBO Max, including 6.6 million in the United States. Its U.S. premiere audience surpassed those of several recent HBO series, such as It: Welcome to Derry (2025–present) and The Penguin (2024), and became the biggest premiere for a DC Studios series on HBO Max.[137] The third episode reached a series high of 10 million viewers worldwide and 7 million in the U.S. during its first three days. The series continued to grow week-to-week, with its pilot episode surpassing 20 million viewers worldwide. It also ranked among the five biggest series launches in HBO Max history.[138]

Critical response

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 93% of 130 critics gave the season a positive review, with an average rating of 7.7/10. The website's critics' consensus reads, "Lanterns lights the way to a controlled and fantastical escape, in which Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre bring audiences into their world of wonder through fearless performances, grounded writing, and charismatic chemistry."[139] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 72 out of 100 based on 38 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[140]

Daniel Fienberg for The Hollywood Reporter praised the series for its "prickly chemistry" between Pierre and Chandler and its strong supporting cast, while noting that its comic-book elements can feel underwhelming and that some episodes are duller and less thematically developed.[141] Alison Herman for Variety praised the character study of Jordan and Stewart and the exploration of John's experiences as a Black superhero, while criticizing the series for relying heavily on influences from other prestige dramas and for struggling to reconcile its grounded approach with its superhero elements.[142] William Bibbiani for TheWrap highlighted the series' increasingly complex characters, relationships, and comic-book references, particularly Stewart's backstory and the "prickliest of interactions" between him and Jordan, while praising the action and criticizing the "too much talking, scene repetition and narrative padding".[143]

Jesen Schedeen for IGN describes the first episode as a successful blend of superhero drama and grounded murder mystery, highlighting the chemistry between Chandler and Pierre, but noted its limited focus on Green Lantern's cosmic side.[144] Ben Travers for IndieWire gave the series an A-, praising its blend of superhero science fiction and police mystery, its exploration of racial discrimination, and the performances of Chandler and Pierre.[145] Amon Warmann for Empire gave the series a 4 out of 5 stars, praising its grounded mystery, the strong performances and the "entertainingly easy friend-foe chemistry" between Chandler and Pierre, as well as its exploration of racial themes, while noting its slow pacing and limited traditional superhero elements.[146]

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