>The story begins in 2016, when a shooting occurs in the small rural town of Rushville, Nebraska. Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler), who has been keeping tabs on the town from afar for quite a while, is convinced it's an alien incident. However, the local authority, Sheriff Kerry Macon (Kelly Macdonald), finds no evidence to support that assertion. "There's a familiar tension just in terms of jurisdiction," showrunner Chris Mundy describes. "It's not like FBI and locals. It's the Lantern Corps and a local sheriff. That's our entry into that town and into the mystery." >Hal is forced to bring along John Stewart (Aaron Pierre), the new Earth-bound Lantern recruit he still reluctantly mentors two months in. John remains a constant source of ire for Hal due to the fact that he is an anomaly. In the history of the Corps, the ring always chooses the Lantern. Those are the rules. It's how Hal got the job in the first place. There was never meant to be a Green Lantern of Earth, but after one of their members, Abin Sur, fatally crash-landed on the planet, the alien's ring was drawn to this former pilot to be its new bearer.
>John's recruitment, however, marks the first time the Guardians of the Universe, the founders of the Corps itself, intervened to self-anoint a member of their order. They felt they had just cause. So Hal is now forced to train his own replacement. John is the backup Lantern in the event anything happens to Hal. It’s “the old guard and the heir apparent,” Mundy notes. "We lean into that tension quite a bit in that early time period.” >Back when Hal was a recruit, he was mentored by veteran Lantern Thaal Sinestro (Ulrich Thomsen). The once-storied member of the Corps went rogue and became consumed by the corrupt yellow energy of fear. "Obviously in the canon, Sinestro's the big bad," Mundy prefaces. "The thing that interests us is this idea that Hal was trained by Sinestro, and Hal is training John. In the coaching tree, we're very interested in what gets passed on, what doesn't, how much is human nature. We talked a lot about programming and parenting and training... What did Hal take away from Sinestro that was good or bad? It brings up a lot of interesting worries."
>No, Mundy didn't slip up. There are two timelines in season 1 of Lanterns. The drama unfolds between the 2016 setting involving the shooting in Rushville and 10 years later “to something else” in 2026, the showrunner teases. "That becomes a second mystery that we know is down the road for us,” he continues. “So eventually two different mysteries get worked out over the course of the show." >Within the 10-year gap between the timelines are the events of last summer's SUPERMAN, which introduced Guy Gardner (Nathan Fillion) as the Green Lantern of Earth's sector. Mundy confirms Guy, whom he describes as "fabulously obnoxious," will "be in the show a few different times.">Going back to the TRUE DETECTIVE reference, Mundy explains how the dueling timelines of Lanterns “create emotional mysteries.” Referring to that Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson season, in particular, he says, "It was less of a whodunnit as much as like, what happened and why? We think of this as a relationship show between John and Hal, and there's a lot to unpack over the course of the eight episodes.">LANTERNS is designed as a multi-season show, should they get the opportunity to do more, so more Lantern pop-ins could be in the cards down the line. "I'd be totally bluffing if I said I could tell you the last thing of the endgame," Mundy adds.
>So far, the mashup of the cosmic with the Earthly is working out well, at least behind the scenes. According to Mundy, the visual effects will lean toward the "medium-to-low side," though "there's plenty in it." He says, "There are a couple episodes where they're incredibly heavy, but from the jump, it's a much more boots-on-the-ground approach.">"The aesthetic of the show — it's supposed to be very grounded and real, so we're shooting practically in places," he says. "We're not heavily green-screened. It's not like day glow in its presentation of anything. I think Green Lantern fans will not feel like we've somehow made a brown show of their green comic at all. It's very much 'we're in the world,' and then when we use the constructs, they're what people would expect them to be."https://ew.com/lanterns-dc-space-cops-drama-dueling-timelines-exclusive-11971022
Sounds awful
Sounds great.
Sounds like a tv show.
Gunnshills have been working overtime for the past week
Sounds sounds.
>>153921544We're doing it for free. We are unironically excited. Cope harder.
>>153923279>We are unironically excited. You're in the minority even among DC fans which makes it clear you're shills.
>>153923320>noooo its unpopular that's why they've greenlit season two well after the first trailer was released
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>>153923279>>153923367the movie flopped, the cartoon flopped, the toys flopped, green arrow avoided the word green because of green lantern, snyder dumped him from the jl (from the 7 to the 6).this shit will flop too.
>>153923606>snyder dumped him from the jl (from the 7 to the 6)NTA, but that was WB. They were making a Green Lantern show and didn't want him using him.
>>153923606Don't forget Arrow having an entire plot about Diggle becoming a Green Lantern that was shelved before it could pan out.
my favorite part of the gl is them going up into space and being space cops and taking down cosmic threats. i could could not give a shit about brown washed out lanterns knocking out bank robbers on earth. the gl suit also looks like shit. why the fuck do i feel like the most alien this show is going to get is them taking down some random Thanagarian in a business suit that decided to become an AI company ceo.
