Damon Lindelof, finest recognized for creating tv reveals Misplaced and Watchmen, Ozark showrunner Chris Mundy and acclaimed comedian e book author Tom King are set to be the writing workforce for Lanterns, the DC Studios tv centered across the Inexperienced Lantern Corps, Gunn stated on social media on Saturday.
“Sure, it’s true. The Lanterns DCU sequence is placing collectively a crack workforce of writers, based mostly on an exquisite pilot script and bible by Chris Mundy, Tom King, and Damon Lindelof,” Gunn stated. “A hearty welcome to Chris and @damonlindelof as they be a part of the DC Studios household (no welcome vital for previous @tomking_tk, who has been right here almost since inception).”
On the 2023 DC Studios slate presentation, DC Studios co-heads James Gunn and Peter Safran revealed that Lanterns is about to revolve round Hal Jordan and John Stewart, with the 2 evaluating the sequence to the Emmy-winning HBO crime drama True Detective.
“Lanterns is a big HBO-quality TV occasion,” the DC Studios heads stated throughout the DC Universe presentation on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California. “It’s already in growth. Our imaginative and prescient for that is very a lot within the vein of True Detective. It’s terrestrial based mostly. It’s received two of our favourite Inexperienced Lanterns, Hal Jordan and Jon Stewart, starring in a True Detective-type thriller and it performs a very huge function main into the primary story that we’re telling throughout [the DC Universe]. It is a essential present for us.”
Arrowverse producer Greg Berlanti was beforehand concerned with the live-action Inexperienced Lantern sequence in 2019, previous to the WarnerMedia and Discovery merger. Finn Wittrock and Jeremy Irvine have been set to star in Greg Berlantin’s Inexperienced Lantern sequence, with Seth Grahame-Smith writing it for HBO Max.
The producers behind the sequence then began from scratch to give attention to John Stewart earlier than it received overhauled for the third time for the DC Universe. Nathan Fillion was solid as Man Gardner for Gunn’s Superman which is at present midway by way of taking pictures.