HBO announced today that Aaron Pierre and Kyle Chandler have officially joined the cast of the upcoming DC series Lanterns. Aaron Pierre will play John Stewart and Kyle Chandler has been cast as Hal Jordan.
The anticipated 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.
Lanterns is an HBO series in association with Warner Bros. Television and DC Studios. Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof, and Tom King will co-write the series based on the DC comic Green Lantern.
James Hawes directs the first two episodes. The series is executive produced by Mundy, Lindelof, King, and Hawes.
Aaron Pierre currently stars as the lead in Jeremy Saulnier’s Rebel Ridge, which debuted on Netflix on September 6th and was the #1 title worldwide on the streaming service for three weeks in a row. In December, Aaron will take on the titular role of Mufasa in Barry Jenkins’ Mufasa: The Lion King.
Pierre was most recently seen leading the NatGeo series Genius: MLK/X, as civil rights leader Malcolm X, Garth Davis’ Foe alongside Paul Mescal and Saoirse Ronan, Clement Virgo’s Brother, and Barry Jenkins’ award-winning limited series The Underground Railroad. Aaron Pierre is currently filming The Morning Show.
Kyle Chandler is most widely known for his role as Coach Eric Taylor on Friday Night Lights, which wrapped its final season in 2011 to both critical and popular acclaim. He was awarded with the Primetime Emmy for “Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series” for the role.
He also starred in the critically acclaimed Netflix series Bloodline, which ran for three seasons and earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for “Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.”
Chandler will next be seen in Netflix’s film Back in Action, opposite Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx. He also starred in Showtime’s anthology drama series Super Pumped with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Francis Lawrence’s Slumberland alongside Jason Momoa and Chris O’Dowd, and the latest installment of the Godzilla MonsterVerse, Godzilla vs. Kong.
Kyle Chandler also made an appearance in Paramount+’s Mayor of Kingstown, opposite Jeremy Renner and Dianne Wiest, and co-starred in Netflix’s The Midnight Sky alongside Felicity Jones, Tiffany Boone, Sophia Rundle, and George Clooney, who also serves as the director and executive producer for the film.
His other credits include Michael Dougherty’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Universal Pictures drama First Man, from director Damien Chazelle, New Line Cinema and Warner Brothers comedy Game Night, The Vanishing of Sidney Hall, Manchester by the Sea, Carol, Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, and Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty.
His film credits continue with Allen Hughes’ Broken City, James Ponsoldt’s The Spectacular Now, J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg’s Super 8, The Day the Earth Stood Still, the thriller The Kingdom, the box-office hit King Kong, Mulholland Falls, Angel’s Dance, Pure Country, and The Color of Evening.
Chandler’s additional television credits include a memorable performance on the medical drama Grey’s Anatomy, which garnered him an Emmy nomination for “Outstanding Guest Performance in a Drama Series,” The Lyons Den, Homefront, Early Edition, What About Joan, Starring Pancho Villa as Himself, China Beach, and Catch-22.
Mirko Parlevliet has been reporting on the entertainment industry since 1998 and founded Vital Thrills to provide the latest news on streaming, movies, and TV shows. He previously created the websites ComingSoon, SuperHeroHype, and ShockTillYouDrop.