By “Lost,” “Watchmen” and “Mrs. Davis” creator Damon Lindelof is returning to television as he, former “Ozark” showrunner Chris Mundy and DC comic author Tom King are officially set as the creative team behind the upcoming Green Lantern series “Lantern” for DC Studios.
Though their names have been rumored for some time, DC Studios co-chief James Gunn made the news official today in a social media posting on Threads saying the trio have written a “wonderful pilot script and bible”. He adds that the series is now “putting together a crack team of writers.”
Some of those writers appear to have been revealed by a number of profile listings on the Writers Guild of America (WGA) website including Justin Britt-Gibson (“Into The Badlands”), Breannah Gibson (“Young Love”), and Vanessa Baden Kelly (“Animal Kingdom”) who each have Lanterns listed in their respective profiles for this year reports Bleeding Cool.
The new series is said to be a “huge HBO-quality event” on the same scale as something like “True Detective” (a fitting comparison as Mundy was a writer/executive producer on ‘Night Country’) and will be more of a “terrestrial-based investigation story” than a cosmos-spanning sci-fi saga.
It will reportedly focus on Hal Jordan and John Stewart as they investigate a mystery which DC Studios co-chief Peter Safran previously indicated would play a “really big role leading us into the main story that we’re telling across our film and television”.
What’s not clear is a timetable for the series and whether it will go into production before year’s out. Either way it’s unlikely we’ll see said series until 2026 at the earliest.
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