Here's Our First Teaser For DC Studios' Lanterns, Showing Its Heroes Driving Off a Cliff

Our archetypal glimpse astatine footage from DC Studios bid Lanterns has arrived, featuring Friday Night Lights' Kyle Chandler and Krypton's Aaron Pierre arsenic members of the intergalactic Green Lantern Corps.

The clip, seemingly portion of a longer showreel of upcoming bid headed to HBO Max, offers our archetypal look astatine Chandler and Pierre's characters pursuing an earlier photograph tease backmost successful February of this year.

Lanterns has been pitched arsenic a buddy bull detective play with similarities to Slow Horses and True Detective, each acceptable wrong James Gunn's broader DC beingness that was kickstarted this summertime by blockbuster movie Superman and volition proceed adjacent twelvemonth with Supergirl.

This bid sees Green Lantern Corps seasoned Hal Jordan (Chandler) paired with younger leader John Stewart (Pierre) successful a "dark, Earth-based enigma arsenic they analyse a execution successful the American heartland." Today's trailer sees the 2 abstraction cops squabbling successful a car, earlier it gets driven disconnected of a cliff. It's a melodramatic moment, though it besides seems similar some of them volition beryllium fine.

According to DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran, speaking this week during an interrogation with CBR, Lanterns is present acceptable to motorboat successful the "late summer" of 2026, having antecedently been expected aboriginal adjacent year.

"It was astir erstwhile it made consciousness for it to beryllium released, truthful [HBO Max] could get the close pb in, the close promotion," Safran said. "Because it's an important amusement for everybody, and the amusement is going to beryllium great. It was astir the close timing, truthful it's going to be... it's precocious summer. But there's a crushed for it."

Intriguingly, this pushes Lanterns' expected accomplishment model aft the motorboat of Supergirl, which is acceptable to get successful theaters connected June 26, 2026. Yesterday brought a archetypal trailer for that DCU project, too, showing Milly Alcock's hungover Kara Zor-El getting into occupation alongside her ace canine sidekick Crypto.

As for however Lanterns volition acceptable into the wider DCU, it has already been confirmed that the bid volition spot the instrumentality of chap Green Lantern Corps subordinate Guy Gardner — erstwhile again played by Nathan Fillion, and present the villainous Sinestro, played by Ulrich Thomsen.

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