Kyle Chandler Latest Resident of Sector 2814 Offered a Green Lantern Ring

Following months of rumor and speculation, Deadline reports histrion Kyle Chandler has been formed arsenic Hal Jordan successful Lanterns, the upcoming Green Lantern tv series astatine HBO.

As the outlet reports, the caller bid acceptable successful James Gunn’s burgeoning DCU hails from enforcement producers Chris Mundy (Ozark), Damon Lindelof (Watchmen), and comic writer Tom King, and follows “recruit John Stewart and Lantern fable Hal Jordan (Chandler), 2 intergalactic cops drawn into a dark, Earth-based enigma arsenic they analyse a execution successful the American heartland.” To capable successful the blank there, the “search for an histrion to play John Stewart is inactive ongoing.”

Perhaps idiosyncratic astatine DC thought the Friday Night Lights catchphrase (“Clear eyes, agleam hearts, can’t lose”) sounded akin to the Lantern Corps Oath (“In brightest day, successful blackest night, nary evil shall flight my sight…) since the Early Edition prima isn’t typically spoken of successful the aforesaid enactment arsenic the company’s archetypal choice, Josh Brolin, who passed connected the relation 2 weeks ago—nor Matthew McConaughey, nor Ewan McGregor—rumored to beryllium 2nd and 3rd connected the privation list. Fortunately, however, determination connected that database (likely betwixt Ron Livingston and Mark Duplass), our antheral Chandler made the people and volition beryllium the latest live-action incarnation of Hal Jordan since Deadpool‘s Ryan Reynolds.

Don’t get excessively excited yet, though, fans of Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Peter Jackson’s King Kong, due to the fact that Chandler is inactive lone said to beryllium “in negotiations.” That said, we deliberation helium looks the part. There’s besides this absorbing tidbit, tweeted by THR writer Borys Kit:

Interesting facet to this: Chandler does not person a movie constituent to his deal, according to my sources. https://t.co/tBaQEjR51Q

— Borys Kit (@Borys_Kit) September 23, 2024

Draw your ain conclusions there, but it seems if a Green Lantern does marque the leap to the large screen, it won’t beryllium the Hal Jordan version? According to THR: “Lanterns is described arsenic having a gritty, True Detective vibe arsenic it focuses connected Jordan reluctantly mentoring a younger Lantern, John Stewart, who successful DC publishing past was 1 of the company’s archetypal Black superheroes. The communicative sees the 2 characters investigating an Earth-bound execution with larger implications. Sources accidental that DC and the producers are looking for a young, much fresh-faced histrion for the relation to play other an older and bigger name.”

You cognize what that means: clip to crook your speculation present to the John Stewart casting! Share your ideas successful the comments below.

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