HBO’s Green Lantern Collection Lastly Casts Hal Jordan

After a near-endless casting and improvement course of, it seems like DC’s Green Lantern sequence is lastly nearly prepared to start manufacturing.

HBO and Max have spent years creating a present based mostly on the basic DC Comics sci-fi property. Their model has all the time been described as a type of police procedural set in outer area, however precisely which Lanterns are the main target (and who’s doing the focusing behind the digicam) has been in flux. The newest model of the present, known as Lanterns, is from DC author Tom King, Damon Lindelof, and Chris Munday, who’s the showrunner on the sequence.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, they’ve picked Friday Night Lights’ Kyle Chandler to play Hal Jordan, probably the most well-known of all of the Green Lanterns, on the sequence.

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THR describes the present as having “a gritty, True Detective vibe” and can concentrate on an older Hal Jordan mentoring “reluctantly mentoring a youthful Lantern, John Stewart,” with DC reportedly on the lookout for a youthful actor to play reverse Chandler, who is finest often called the inspirational highschool soccer coach Eric Taylor from 5 seasons of the nice NBC drama. On the large display screen, Chandler has appeared in Argo, Zero Dark Thirty, and Godzilla: King of the Monsters.

DC beforehand tailored Green Lantern right into a infamous big-budget catastrophe starring Ryan Reynolds as a youthful model of Hal Jordan. A couple of years later, Warner Bros. started wanting into the potential for a Green Lantern TV present. The model of the present that first got here collectively would have been produced by Seth Grahame-Smith, and was going to star Finn Wittrock and Jeremy Irvine as a number of different members of the Green Lantern Corps, Guy Gardner and Alan Scott. That iteration of the sequence fell aside in the fall of 2022.

This new Lanterns is meant to be a part of the brand new DC Universe headed by James Gunn. Per THR, it is trying to start manufacturing early in 2025.