Lanterns’ Director Teases the HBO Present’s Tone and ‘Sci-Fi Magic’

The upcoming Lanterns sequence facilities on John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) and Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) utilizing their Inexperienced Lantern rings to analyze a thriller on Earth. Given the Inexperienced Lantern film was largely set on Earth, there was some concern amongst followers that the present was going to repeat that movie’s errors. However based on director James Hawes, the present will do proper by the heroes’ cosmic scope.

In an interview with Collider, Hawes assured there wouldn’t be any scarcity of “sci-fi magic” amid its Nebraska setting. “It’s performed in a world the place you settle for that these items simply are,” he mentioned of Lanterns‘ fantastical parts. As somebody with out a lot superhero expertise earlier than this mission, he mentioned he was “bewitched” by his foray into the style. “You at all times discover a scene or two that you just assume, ‘I can’t wait to be beside the digital camera and the solid, directing this scene.’ that is one thing you need to take significantly, and that completely occurred with Lanterns.”

Hawes continued with mentions of the present’s humor—it’s “very explicit” and his episodes will hopefully be much like his work on Gradual Horses and Black Mirror—and its “electrical” solid. Of Pierre and Chandler, he felt they introduced “allure” and “authenticity” to their roles. “These are two folks you simply wish to hang around with. [….] You wish to go on that journey. You get people who find themselves simply so stylish and so busy inhabiting their roles, so that you by no means doubt it. They’re not on the surface—they’re deep in these skins.”

Lanterns is scheduled to launch on Max and HBO someday in 2026.

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