HBO’s Green Lantern Series Offers Josh Brolin the Hal Jordan Role (Report)
Josh Brolin has reportedly been invited to trade in Thanos purple for Lantern green.
The Avengers franchise vet (and Outer Range star) has been offered — but has not yet accepted — the role of Hal Jordan in HBO’s live-action Lanterns series, TheInsneider reported over the long holiday weekend.
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DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn, who is seldom shy to squash an unfounded casting rumor with his Threads account, notably has thus far ignored frantic followers’ cries for confirmation or denial. (This is why, I was told years ago, ABC never comments on Dancing With the Stars casting rumors — because the moment you start refuting the patently false ones, non-denials or silence can be read as consent.)
Warner Bros. has no comment on the Brolin rumor.
Lanterns was given an eight-episode, straight-to-series order back in June, with Damon Lindelof and Eisner Award winner Tom King set to pen the script. Chris Mundy (True Detective: Night Country, Ozark) will serve as showrunner and executive-produce with Lindelof and King.
Described by DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran as being “very much in the vein of True Detective,” Lanterns will follow new recruit John Stewart and legend Hal Jordan, two intergalactic cops drawn into a dark, Earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland.
There have been no rumblings yet on the John Stewart casting; TheInsneider meanwhile claims that if Brolin passes on the Hal Jordan gig, True Detective Season 1’s own Matthew McConaughey and Obi-Wan Kenobi front man Ewan McGregor are also on Warner Bros.’ short list.
“John Stewart and Hal Jordan are two of DC’s most compelling characters,” Gunn said in June, “and Lanterns brings them to life in an original detective story that is a foundational part of the unified DCU we’re launching next summer with [the feature film] Superman.”
Chapter 1 of that “unified DCU” — dubbed “Gods and Monsters” — officially launches with the animated series Creature Commandos, hitting Max in late 2024. On the film side, things will kick off with Superman, starring David Corenswet (The Politician) and landing in theaters July 11, 2025.
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