WATCH: Lanterns gets full trailer as the DCU expands on the small screen

May 18th, 2026 by Marc Comments

A certain corner of the internet will be happier – yeah, right! – now that the new trailer for the DCU’s Green Lantern series, Lanterns, arrives, and this one wears the comicbook origins on its sleeve!

Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre star as Hal Jordan and John Stewart, alongside Kelly Macdonald, Nathan Fillion, Garret Dillahunt, Poorna Jagannathan and Ulrich Thomsen. The show is apparently inspired by True Detective and Slow Horses.


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Green Lanterns are intergalactic peacekeepers who wear rings that give them extraordinary powers. The series follows experienced Lantern Hal Jordan and new recruit John Stewart as they investigate a murder in Nebraska, which leads them to darker mysteries and reckonings.

Lanterns debuts on August 16th on HBO Max.

Watch the trailer:


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