Based on the heroes from the Green Lantern comic books, Lanterns brings prestigious behind-the-scenes stories. Chris Mundy, the showrunner behind Netflix's crime series Ozark, and Eisner winner and longtime DC comic book writer Tom King round out the creative team, DC Studios co-head James Gunn announced on Instagram on Saturday.
Gunn welcomed Lindelof and Mundy to the DC family, saying the trio had written a "beautiful" pilot script and bible, and announcing that the series is now "assembling a top team of writers."
Lanterns is one of the core series for the DC Studios program from Gunn and Peter Safran. “This really plays a big role in leading up to the main story we're telling in film and television,” Safran said in January 2023 when he and Gunn revealed their first DC plans.
Safran also described the series at the time as True Detective-esque in tone, "more of an Earth-based investigative story."
It's unclear if that's still the case, but the social media post was accompanied by drawings of heroes Hal Jordan and John Stewart, implying that it will be a series with two main characters. The True Detective vibe could also come from Mundy, who served as executive producer and writer on the detective's final season, True Detective: Night Country.
After making his mark with Lost, Lindelof co-created The Leftovers, the supernatural drama on HBO that explored the consequences of losing people to a sudden and massive disappearance. The series ran from 2014 to 2017.
In 2019, he returned with Watchmen (2019), which didn't so much adapt Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' iconic comic book as use it as a backdrop to explore heroism and race relations, while also shining a light on the Tulsa Massacre in 1921. The series won 11 Emmy Awards.
