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.
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.
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