DC’s upcoming sci-fi HBO series Lanterns has added two more to its growing cast. According to Deadline, Garret Dillahunt (Army of the Dead) and Kelly Macdonald (Boardwalk Empire) will star opposite Aaron Pierre (Rebel Ridge) and Kyle Chandler (Slumberland).
Lanterns follows Hal Jordan, a legend amongst the space police force known as the Green Lanterns, as he reluctantly mentors Stewart, a younger Green Lantern. The two intergalactic cops get drawn into a dark, Earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland.
Dillahunt will play “modern cowboy William Macon, a self-righteous, conspiracy-minded man who masks his ruthless ambition behind a charming and calculated facade.”
Macdonald will play Sheriff Kerry, “a no-nonsense woman deeply devoted to her family and close-knit town. Her resilience, shaped by a complex past that’s hardened her resolve, anchors her when the community’s secrets begin to surface.”
As previously announced Kyle Chandler will play the experienced Green Lantern Hal Jordan while Aaron Pierre will be the freshly recruited John Stewart.
Lanterns is set to be a part of James Gunn and Peter Safran’s new DC film universe and one of the first productions in Gunn’s ‘Gods and Monsters’ saga of DC film and television. The new DC universe officially kicks off in December with Gunn’s animated series Creature Commandos followed by next summer’s Superman. Following that film is Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow and the second season of Peacemaker and Lanterns.
Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof, and Eisner Award-winning comic book writer Tom King are executive producing and writing, with Mundy showrunning. The series is a planned eight-episode season with James Hawes tapped to helm the first two episodes.
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