Kyle Chandler In Talks To Star In ‘Lanterns’ DC Series For HBO
EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner Kyle Chandler is in negotiations to star in Lanterns, HBO’s high-profile series based on the Green Lantern DC comic, sources tell Deadline.
No one is commenting, but I hear Chandler is poised to play Hal Jordan, the Green Lantern character that was played by Ryan Reynolds in the 2011 movie.
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The series from Ozark’s Chris Mundy, Watchmen‘s Damon Lindelof and comic book writer Tom King follows new recruit John Stewart and Lantern legend Jordan, two intergalactic cops drawn into a dark, Earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland.
The search for an actor to play Stewart is ongoing.
The eight-episode Lanterns is produced by HBO in association with Warner Bros Television and DC Studios. Mundy, who will serve as showrunner, Lindelof and King are co-writing and executive producing. The project, which received a straight-to-series order in June, marks one of the first titles to come out of the revamped DC Studios.
“John Stewart and Hal Jordan are two of DC’s most compelling characters, 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 Superman,” DC Studios co-chairmen and co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran said at the time of the series announcement.
Chandler, an Emmy winner for his signature role on Friday Night Lights, also starred in Bloodline, Catch-22 and Super Pumped. In features, he will next be seen in Back in Action and Anniversary. He is repped by Gersh and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
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