Nathan Fillion has joined Lanterns, HBO’s upcoming drama series based on the Green Lantern DC comic. Deadline has been tracking his casting as Guy Gardner since October.
Fillion first voiced the Green Lantern character Hal Jordan in Green Lantern: Emerald Knights (2011) and again a year later in Justice League: Doom, followed by Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox in 2013, Justice League: Throne of Atlantis two years later, The Death of Superman in 2018, and Reign of the Supermen in 2019. He will bring Guy Gardner to life in James Gunn’s feature film, Superman, which hits theaters this summer.
He joins the previously announced cast: Kyle Chandler, Aaron Pierre, Kelly MacDonald, Garret Dillahunt, Poorna Jagannathan, Jasmine Cephas Jones and Ulrich Thomsen.
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The series, from Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof and Tom King, follows new recruit John Stewart (Pierre) and Lantern legend Hal Jordan (Chandler), two intergalactic cops drawn into a dark, Earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland.
HBO produces the eight-episode series Lanterns in association with Warner Bros Television and DC Studios. Mundy, who serves as showrunner, Lindelof, and King co-wrote and executive produced. James Hawes directed and executive produced, with Stephen Williams, Geeta Vasant Patel, and Alik Sakharov also tapped to direct.