HBO’s Inexperienced Lantern present has forged its John Stewart. Aaron Pierre, the retired Marine in search of justice in Netflix’s Insurgent Ridge, will star in Lanterns alongside Friday Night time Lights coach Kyle Chandler because the comedian ebook detective present begins to take form.
DC Studios head James Gunn confirmed the information on social media immediately, and in response to The Hollywood Reporter, the ultimate selection got here all the way down to Pierre and Stephan James, who beforehand starred in The Piano Lesson and Race. “Welcome to DC, Aaron Pierre,” Gunn wrote. “After an extended and grueling sequence of auditions I’m completely positive we’ve discovered an unbelievable John Stewart.”
Lanterns is reported to by a gritty homicide thriller within the vein of HBO’s hit anthology sequence True Detective. The preliminary premise at the least seems to revolve round Chandler as an older, grumpier Hal Jordan coaching up Pierre’s Stewart as his substitute Inexperienced Lantern whereas the 2 attempt to unravel the conspiracy behind a grizzly homicide.
A Inexperienced Lantern present may need beforehand appeared like a clumsy match for TV, particularly coming off of DC’s extremely spotty report on the massive display screen. However The Penguin has by some means managed to take Colin Farrell’s riff on the Gotham supervillain and switch it right into a compelling present about warring crime bosses and underworld politics.
Pierre additionally looks as if a terrific match coming off of Insurgent Ridge, a revenge flick about corrupt cops in Louisiana that began streaming on Netflix final month and which co-stars Don Johnson of Miami Vice and extra lately, HBO’s earlier DC adaptation, Watchmen. It’s a terrific film with sturdy performances through which Pierre nonetheless manages to face out as a rising motion star. He additionally performs Mufasa within the upcoming Lion King prequel.
Lanterns nonetheless doesn’t have a launch date nevertheless it’s anticipated to hopefully start filming as early as subsequent 12 months.