• HBO has confirmed that a Green Lantern series is in development.
• The series is expected to be eight episodes long and will focus on John Stewart as a new recruit and Hal Jordan as a veteran.
• The producers behind Watchmen and Ozark are helping to helm the project.

We are finally getting a Green Lantern series.

Warner Bros. this week confirmed that a series is going into development for streaming on HBO, with the current working title simply being Lanterns.

This is a DC property that has been in development hell ever since the ill-fated 2011 movie starring Ryan Reynolds. In the year’s since attempts to make a new movie in a buddy cop style, as well as a series as part of the CW’s Arrow-verse have all failed to come to fruition.

With James Gunn now overseeing many of the DCEU operations for Warner Bros, it looks like the Green Lantern series has had new life breathed into it.

“HBO, in association with Warner Bros. Television and DC Studios, has given an eight-episode, straight-to-series order for LANTERNS, a new drama series based on the iconic DC title.

“Emmy-nominee Chris Mundy (HBO’s ‘True Detective: Night Country,’ ‘Ozark’) will serve as showrunner and executive producer. Emmy-winner Damon Lindelof (HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ and ‘The Leftovers’) and Eisner Award winner Tom King (‘Mister Miracle,’ ‘Supergirl’) will co-write the new series with Mundy. Lindelof and King will also serve as executive producers,” it added.

The attaching of Lindelof to the project bodes well in our view, as the Watchmen series from 2019 was some of the best superhero-focused content we’ve seen on TV. We’re also hoping that the story will be a little different, as a generic superhero series leaning too heavily on CGI is likely not going to cut it anymore.

There aren’t a whole bunch of details known about the series just yet, but a short synopsis explains which Green Lantern Corps members will be present, as well as what they will be focusing on while on Earth.

“The series follows new recruit John Stewart and Lantern legend Hal Jordan, two intergalactic cops drawn into a dark, earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland,” Warner Bros. outlined.

“We’re thrilled to bring this seminal DC title to HBO with Chris, Damon and Tom at the helm. John Stewart and Hal Jordan are two of DC’s most compelling characters, and Lanterns brings them to life in an original detective story that is a foundational part of the unified DCU we’re launching next summer with Superman,” added James Gunn and Peter Safran, co-chairmen and co-CEOs of DC Studios in a joint statement.

If the reports of a True Detective with superpowers are true, this could be a very interesting property indeed. For now, we will have to wait to see what happens, as there is no confirmed timeframe on when production for the series will begin, but at the very least, all systems are go.