Damon Lindelof, finest identified for creating tv exhibits Misplaced and Watchmen, Ozark showrunner Chris Mundy and acclaimed comedian e book author Tom King are set to be the writing group for Lanterns, the DC Studios tv centered across the Inexperienced Lantern Corps, Gunn mentioned on social media on Saturday.
“Sure, it’s true. The Lanterns DCU collection is placing collectively a crack group of writers, primarily based on an exquisite pilot script and bible by Chris Mundy, Tom King, and Damon Lindelof,” Gunn mentioned. “A hearty welcome to Chris and @damonlindelof as they be a part of the DC Studios household (no welcome mandatory for outdated @tomking_tk, who has been right here practically since inception).”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 collection to the Emmy-winning HBO crime drama True Detective.
“Lanterns is a big HBO-quality TV occasion,” the DC Studios heads mentioned through 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 primarily based. It’s acquired two of our favourite Inexperienced Lanterns, Hal Jordan and Jon Stewart, starring in a True Detective-type thriller and it performs a extremely huge position main into the primary story that we’re telling throughout [the DC Universe]. This can be a essential present for us.”
Arrowverse producer Greg Berlanti was beforehand concerned with the live-action Inexperienced Lantern collection in 2019, previous to the WarnerMedia and Discovery merger. Finn Wittrock and Jeremy Irvine had been set to star in Greg Berlantin’s Inexperienced Lantern collection, with Seth Grahame-Smith writing it for HBO Max.
The producers behind the collection then began from scratch to deal with John Stewart earlier than it acquired overhauled for the third time for the DC Universe. Nathan Fillion was forged as Man Gardner for Gunn’s Superman which is at the moment midway by capturing.