“Green Lantern HBO Show Makes Rebel Ridge Star John Stewart”

HBO's Green Lantern The show has cast its John Stewart. Aaron Pierre, the retired Marine who seeks justice in the Netflix series Rebel Ridgewill play the main role Lanterns next to Friday Night Lights Coach Kyle Chandler as the comic detective series takes shape.

DC Studios boss James Gunn confirmed the news on social media today The Hollywood ReporterThe final choice fell on Pierre and Stephan James, who previously played the main roles in The piano lesson And race. “Welcome to DC, Aaron Pierre,” Gunn wrote. “After a long and grueling series of auditions, I am absolutely confident that we have found an incredible John Stewart.”

Lanterns is a dark crime thriller in the style of the HBO hit anthology series True detective. The initial premise at least seems to revolve around Chandler as the older, grumpy Hal Jordan, training Pierre's Stewart as his successor Green Lantern as the two try to uncover the conspiracy behind a gruesome murder.

A Green Lantern show might have once seemed like an unlikely fit for television, especially given DC's incredibly poor track record on the big screen. But The penguin somehow managed to turn Colin Farrell's take on the Gotham supervillain into a compelling show about feuding crime bosses and underworld politics.

Pierre seems like a great fit too comes from Rebel Ridgea revenge film about corrupt police officers in Louisiana that streamed on Netflix last month and stars Don Johnson MiamiVice and more recently HBO's previous DC adaptation, Guardian. It's a great film with strong performances in which Pierre still manages to stand out as a rising action star. He also plays Mufasa in the upcoming film Lion King Prequel.

Lanterns There is no release date yet, but filming will hopefully begin next year.