Following the inclusion of Nathan Fillion’s Guy Gardner in Superman and Peacemaker Season 2 last year, the DC Universe is pointing the spotlight directly on the Green Lantern mythology on the 2026 TV schedule with HBO’s Lanterns. Although Guy will pop up in the series, we’ll chiefly be following along Kyle Chandler’s Hal Jordan and Aaron Pierre’s John Stewart. However, after watching the first Lanterns trailer, I’m concerned about the kind of dynamic we’re getting between these two characters in the upcoming DC TV show.
If you’ve been following along with Lanterns’ development, you know that the show will depict Hal as a veteran Green Lantern who’s training rookie John. The trailer reveals that Hal’s been showing John the ropes for two months, but the latter hasn’t even put on the ring yet that allows him to channel the emerald energy of willpower. He’ll soon get his chance, and not just with that jumping out of the car stunt Hal pulls. The two men will be investigating a mysterious murder in Nebraska, and you know there’s going to be an extraterrestrial bent to this if Green Lanterns are getting involved.
More to come…
