The new DC series will focus on Green Lanterns John Stewart and Hal Jordan.
It’s official: the light of the Green Lanterns will strike the darkness and mystery on TV. Lanternsthe live-action series from Warner Bros. Television and DC Studios based on the hit comic book green Lanternadapted from the creator of Lost And Watchmen Damon Lindelof, has obtained the final approval to produce an 8-episode series. But not to Max, the streaming service where it had been in development for years, but to its sister cable network HBO, which in the meantime also got its hands on the much talked about television adaptation of Harry Potter come on Welcome to Derrythe prequel series of the films It.
Lanterns: Everything we know about the TV series
Co-written with the comics legend Tom King And Chris Mundy (True Detective: Night Country, Ozarks), Lanterns follows new recruit John Stewart and the legendary Green Lantern Hal Jordan, two intergalactic cops caught up in a dark Earth mystery as they investigate a murder in the heartland of the United States of America. On a previous occasion, the co-president of DC Studios Peter Safran had described the series as “a huge event”, “very much in the wake of True Detective“, adding that he will play “a really important role” in the big story at the center of the DC Universe.
“We are thrilled to bring this landmark DC title to HBO with Chris, Damon and Tom at the helm,” said Safran and James Gunn in a statement. “John Stewart and Hal Jordan are two of DC’s most compelling characters, and Lanterns brings them to life with an original detective story that’s a key part of the unified DCU we’ll launch next summer with [il film] Superman“.
Harry Potter and Welcome to Derry are also on HBO
Lanterns is one of three titles in the works at Max that have moved to HBO in the past few hours as part of a small rebranding. They add Harry Potternew adaptation of the famous saga of fantasy novels written by JK Rowling, e Welcome to Derry, a horror series set more than two decades before the terrifying events told by Stephen King in his cult novel. “The idea of using Warner Bros. IPs as a framework for Max seemed right. But when we started producing those shows, we found ourselves using the same methods, the same kind of thinking that we would use at HBO,” he said. explained HBO and Max content chief Casey Bloys to Variety. “The idea of delineation started to seem pointless. Like, why are we doing this? Let’s just call them what they are: HBO shows.”
Since the rebranding will not take effect until 2025, other similar projects such as The Penguinthe film’s spin-off miniseries The BatmanAnd Dune: Prophecyprequel to the film saga Dunesboth expected in the fall, will continue to be labeled as Max Original. Harry Potter, which re-adapts the story of the eponymous wizard and his Hogwarts friends with an all-new cast, won’t hit screens until 2026. All we know at the moment is that it will be “a faithful adaptation of the source material.” In 2025, Welcome to Derrydeveloped by the director of the two films Andy Muschietti with his sister Barbara Muschiettiwill go back in time to the 1960s to explore the origins of the curse that will haunt the small town of Derry, Maine for the next 27 years, as well as the origin story of the clown Pennywise (again played by Bill Skarsgard), leading to the events of the first film.
