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'Lanterns': Who's Who in HBO's Green Lantern Show?

The series follows Hal Jordan mentoring John Stewart while expanding Green Lantern mythology with a complex roster of heroes and villains.

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The DC Universe expands further into the cosmos this month with the addition of "Lanterns". Created by Chris Mundy, Tom King and Damon Lindelof, the superhero show sees the veteran Green Lantern Hal Jordan (played by Kyle Chandler) take rookie John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) under his wing. Wider parts of the Green Lantern Corps lore are incorporated in the story too, as the series unpacks what the famous space cops are all about.At the same time, l…

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James Gunn’s DC universe has been building his first season of projects for two years before we get to something that looks like traditional superhero cinema. Lanterns, which premieres on August 16 at HBO (in Spain, Max), is the opposite of that: it is deliberately anti-cinema-de-superheroes in its structure, and during the first episodes, that bet pays more than expected. Gizmodo analyzes it on August 14, 2026, with five of the eight episodes s…

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comicbasics.com broke the news on Friday, August 14, 2026.
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