The logline for HBO‘s Lanterns and most of the marketing and press around the show has emphasized that it will be a “dark, earth-based mystery.” But the show won’t confine itself totally to this world.
A brand new trailer for the DC Studios collection encompasses a shot of a planet that decidedly doesn’t seem like Earth and Inexperienced Lantern Corps member Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) within the acquainted uniform from the comics (additionally probably in an otherworldly setting). And whereas the first teaser for the series solely hinted on the energy of a Inexperienced Lantern ring, the brand new trailer makes specific a number of the issues it could possibly do. Watch the trailer under.
The trailer — which continues to play off the strain between Jordan and new Lantern Corps recruit John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) — additionally confirms that Nathan Fillion will reprise his position as Man Gardner from final yr’s Superman movie and exhibits Laura Linney in an undisclosed position. In a scene late within the trailer, new Stewart confides to Linney’s character that “I was raised fearless, and I’ll do this better than [Jordan] has ever done it before.” She replies, “Then go and get it, John Stewart.”
Together with the trailer, HBO has set an Aug. 16 premiere date for Lanterns. The collection additionally stars Kelly Macdonald, Garret Dillahunt, Poorna Jagannathan, Jason Ritter, Ulrich Thomsen, J. Alphonse Nicholson and Jasmine Cephas Jones.
Chris Mundy (Ozark), Damon Lindelof (Watchmen, The Leftovers) and Eisner Award-winning comics author Tom King co-created the collection and wrote the primary episode. Mundy is the showrunner and government produces with Lindelof, King, DC Studios heads James Gunn and Peter Safran, Ron Schmidt and James Hawes, who directed the primary two episodes. Stephen Williams, Geeta Vasant Patel and Alik Sakharov additionally directed episodes.
