The logline for HBO‘s Lanterns and most of the marketing and press around the show has emphasized that it will be a “dark, earth-based mystery.” But the show won’t confine itself entirely to this world.
A new trailer for the DC Studios series features a shot of a planet that decidedly does not look like Earth and Green Lantern Corps member Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) in the familiar uniform from the comics (also possibly in an otherworldly setting). And whereas the first teaser for the series only hinted at the power of a Green Lantern ring, the new trailer makes explicit some of the things it can do. Watch the trailer below.
The trailer — which continues to play off the tension between Jordan and new Lantern Corps recruit John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) — also confirms that Nathan Fillion will reprise his role as Guy Gardner from last year’s Superman film and shows Laura Linney in an undisclosed role. In a scene late in the trailer, new Stewart confides to Linney’s character that “I was raised fearless, and I’ll do this better than [Jordan] has ever done it before.” She replies, “Then go and get it, John Stewart.”
Along with the trailer, HBO has set an Aug. 16 premiere date for Lanterns. The series also stars Kelly Macdonald, Garret Dillahunt, Poorna Jagannathan, Jason Ritter, Ulrich Thomsen, J. Alphonse Nicholson and Jasmine Cephas Jones.
Chris Mundy (Ozark), Damon Lindelof (Watchmen, The Leftovers) and Eisner Award-winning comics writer Tom King co-created the series and wrote the first episode. Mundy is the showrunner and executive produces with Lindelof, King, DC Studios heads James Gunn and Peter Safran, Ron Schmidt and James Hawes, who directed the first two episodes. Stephen Williams, Geeta Vasant Patel and Alik Sakharov also directed episodes.
