James Gunn Updates On Trailer Launch For DCU’s Most Extremely Anticipated Present For 2026

The DC Universe franchise has completed its 2025 run, following the discharge of James Gunn’s Superman film and the completion of Peacemaker season 2 on HBO Max. The DCU’s Chapter 1: “Gods and Monsters” line-up is much from finished with introducing a few of their greatest heroes and villains into the reboot, because the Inexperienced Lantern Corps is one among them.

HBO’s Lanterns TV present has completed manufacturing, and when Gunn was requested by BobaTalks when the world might get a primary take a look at the DCU drama. He confirmed that he has “seen the [sneak] peak,” for the sequence. Nevertheless, the DC Studios co-CEO added, “I feel not less than the place it’s now. However I’ve no clue…when that is deliberate to be proven. With HBO, the advertising and marketing is so completely different than movie.”

The sequence will deal with John Stewart and Hal Jordan, two of DC’s most well-known members of the Inexperienced Lantern Corps, with Aaron Pierre and Kyle Chandler set to painting them, respectively. Whereas Hal made his live-action debut in 2011’s Inexperienced Lantern with Ryan Reynolds, the HBO sequence would be the first time John will get used outdoors of comics and animation.

Initially set to be an HBO Max unique, the sequence obtained retooled to broadcast on HBO when it was picked up for eight episodes on June 25, 2024. This would be the first DCU TV present to get the HBO remedy, following The Penguin from Matt Reeves’ The Batman universe, which exists as an Elseworlds.

Centered on Hal, a veteran Inexperienced Lantern, and John, who begins his journey within the present, HBO describes Lanterns as “two intergalactic cops drawn right into a darkish, earth-based thriller as they examine a homicide within the American heartland.” Chris Mundy co-created the sequence and serves because the showrunner, with Damon Lindelof and Tom King hooked up as govt producers.

The Lanterns TV present can even introduce some of the well-known villains within the Emerald Knights’ lore, as Sinestro is confirmed to look, performed by Ulrich Thomsen. Nathan Fillion, who debuted as Man Gardner in Superman, is confirmed to return within the upcoming sequence.

Whereas set to premiere in 2026, Lanterns has but to get a premiere date from HBO.