'Lanterns' TV Series Casting Update: 7 Stars Join the Series, 1 Actor Turned It Down & 1 DC Star's Status Unkown

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Production is underway on the upcoming Lanterns television show! The DC Comics adaptation will be part of the overall DCU (DC Universe) under the direction of Co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran.

According to the initial announcement by James nearly two years ago, Lanterns will be a “big premiere HBO television series” which will tell the “story of a couple of Green Lanterns, Jon Stewart and Hal Jordan, and we have a few other lanterns peppered in there, but this is really a terrestrial based TV show.” It will be “almost like True Detective, with a couple of Green Lanterns who are space cops watching over Precinct Earth.

In it, they discover a terrifying mystery that ties into our largest story of the DCU.” The official logline reads, “The series follows new recruit John Stewart and Lantern legend Hal Jordan, two intergalactic cops drawn into a dark, earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland.” Filming is currently taking place at the iconic Warner Bros Studio in Burbank, and the show will be airing on HBO in the future.

Check out the first photo here! So far, seven actors have been confirmed to be cast in the series, and one actor revealed they turned it down! Keep reading inside to meet the cast of the upcoming Lanterns TV show…