Kyle Chandler is joining James Gunn’s new DCU as Green Lantern.
Chandler will be playing Hal Jordan in the upcoming Lanterns HBO series from Chris Mundy (Ozark), Damon Lindelof (Watchmen, Lost) and Eisner Award-winning comics writer Tom King. The trio are co-writing and executive producing the series, with Mundy serving as showrunner.
The role was initially offered to Josh Brolin but he did not accept the offer.
Lanterns has been pitched as a gritty, True Detective-style drama that will follow Jordan reluctantly mentoring a younger Lantern, John Stewart, who in DC publishing history was one of the company’s first Black superheroes. The Stewart role has yet to be cast.
The story sees the two characters investigating an Earth-bound murder with larger implications.
The series is looking to shoot from next January to June in Atlanta.
Source: THR
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