Damon Lindelof (“Lost,” “Watchmen”) and Chris Mundy (“Ozark”) have joined DC’s upcoming Green Lantern series as writers.
DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn confirmed the news on Instagram Saturday, writing, “Yes, it’s true. The ‘Lanterns’ DCU series is putting together a crack team of writers, based on an exquisite pilot script and bible by Chris Mundy, Tom King and Damon Lindelof.”
Lindelof is referred to as the co-creator and showrunner of the sci-fi series “Lost,” which ran from 2004 to 2010 on ABC, and the 2019 HBO limited series “Watchmen.” He also co-created and served as showrunner on the HBO supernatural series “The Leftovers.”
Mundy served as showrunner on the Netflix series “Ozark” from 2017 to 2022. He executive produced such series as “Criminal Minds,” “Cold Case,” “Bloodline” and “True Detective” Season 4.
In January of last 12 months, Gunn and DC Studios co-head Peter Safran announced the Green Lantern series, titled “Lanterns,” as certainly one of the primary 10 film and TV titles throughout the rebooted DC Universe. On the time, Safran described the series as “an enormous HBO-quality event” that’s “very much within the vein of ‘True Detective.’”
“Lanterns” will deal with two of the perfect known members of the Green Lantern corps.: Hal Jordan (the test pilot first played on screen by Ryan Reynolds in 2011’s “Green Lantern”) and John Stewart (an ex-marine and certainly one of DC’s first Black superheroes), who investigate a mystery that Safran said “plays a extremely big role leading us into the fundamental story that we’re telling across our film and tv.”
The project is separate from a Green Lantern series that was being developed by Greg Berlanti for Max, with Finn Wittrock and Jeremy Scott set to star as Guy Gardner and Alan Scott, respectively. Berlanti’s Green Lantern series at Max isn’t any longer moving forward.
