HBO has released a new teaser trailer for Lanterns. The upcoming superhero series will be the third television project set in the DC Universe.
Lanterns stars Kyle Chandler, Aaron Pierre, Kelly Macdonald, Garret Dillahunt, Poorna Jagannathan, Laura Linney, Jason Ritter, Ulrich Thomsen, Nathan Fillion, J. Alphonse Nicholson, and Jasmine Cephas Jones.
The new trailer comes a few days after showrunner Chris Mundy revealed several new details about Lanterns to Entertainment Weekly, such as the show jumping between two interlaced timelines. The mystery will reportedly begin in 2016, when Hal has been mentoring John for two months, while a second mystery will unfold in 2026.
Mundy also teased the relationship between not only Hal and John, but also Hal and Sinestro, who was Hal’s mentor in the Green Lantern Corps before he went rogue.
“Obviously, in the canon, Sinestro’s the big bad,” said Mundy. “The thing that interests us is this idea [that] Hal was trained by Sinestro, 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.”
As for Hal and John, Mundy described their relationship as “the old guard and the heir apparent. We lean into that tension quite a bit in that early time period.”
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Lanterns will premiere on HBO on Sunday, August, 16, 2026, and will be available to stream on HBO Max.
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