HBO’s Lanterns adds Aaron Pierre to its cast as John Stewart

Oct 10, 2024 12:26 AM - 4 months ago 151388

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HBO has recovered a caller personnel for its live-action Green Lantern Corps.

By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a newsman focusing connected film, TV, and popular culture. Before The Verge, he wrote astir comic books, labor, race, and much astatine io9 and Gizmodo for almost 5 years.

Oct 9, 2024, 5:26 PM UTC

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While HBO has yet to officially fastener successful a Hal Jordan for its upcoming Lanterns series based connected DC’s comics, the web has recovered its John Stewart.

Today, HBO announced that Rebel Ridge and Old star Aaron Pierre will play Lanterns’ John Stewart, a caller enlistee to the Green Lantern Corps. who partners up pinch seasoned Lantern Hal Jordan to lick a “dark, earth-based” execution enigma that requires their expertise. As Deadline notes, Kyle Chandler has reportedly been successful talks to subordinate the bid arsenic Jordan, and Pierre narrowly edged retired Homecoming’s Stephan James for the Stewart role.

Lanterns, which doesn’t yet person a coagulated merchandise date, is 1 of the much precocious floor plan live-action projects group to footwear disconnected Warner Bros. and DC Studio’s caller beingness of interconnected comic book adaptations consisting of films for illustration James Gunn’s Superman and series for illustration Creature Commandos. It will astir apt beryllium a while earlier we cognize much astir what Lanterns showrunner Chris Mundy is cooking up for the boys successful green. But arsenic agelong arsenic it’s been since we sewage a bully John Stewart communicative connected the mini surface — Justice League Unlimited finished airing successful 2006 — it could beryllium very worthy the wait.

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