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

The upcoming Lanterns collection facilities on John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) and Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) utilizing their Inexperienced Lantern rings to research a thriller on Earth. Given the Inexperienced Lantern film was principally 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 carried out in a world the place you settle for that this stuff simply are,” he mentioned of Lanterns‘ fantastical parts. As somebody with out a lot superhero expertise earlier than this venture, he mentioned he was “bewitched” by his foray into the style. “You all the time discover a scene or two that you simply suppose, ‘I can’t wait to be beside the digital camera and the forged, directing this scene.’ You understand that is one thing you must take severely, 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 just like his work on Sluggish Horses and Black Mirror—and its “electrical” forged. Of Pierre and Chandler, he felt they introduced “allure” and “authenticity” to their roles. “These are two individuals you simply wish to hang around with. [….] You wish to go on that journey. You get people who find themselves simply so elegant 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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