Just as James Gunn and Peter Safran prepare to take Lanterns to San Diego Comic-Con later this month, DC Studios’ television slate has suffered a breach.
Early-press screener descriptions of the premier episode of Lanterns indicate that the pilot closes out with a twist that’s sure to divide fans as Hal Jordan is reportedly killed off in the present-day timeline.
The reveal is already igniting a raging firestorm across social media circles, leaving lifelong Green Lantern purists profoundly unhappy with how the DCU is handling its greatest cosmic icon.
The leaked plot details, which have been shared by multiple outlets who received the first four press screeners, outline a dual-timeline narrative engine.
The series structures its narrative around a gritty, True Detective-inspired crime procedural located deep in America’s heartland. A veteran, 60-year-old Hal Jordan (played by Kyle Chandler) reluctantly takes a young, brilliant John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) under his wing as a newly minted Ring-Wielder.
While Episode 1 tracks their early training and an uneasy partnership investigating a dark metahuman murder in 2016, the premier lands a devastating third-act punch as Hal Jordan is violently eliminate. The rest of the eight-episode season reportedly shifts directly into a high-stakes investigation, with John Stewart forced to solve the horrific mystery of his legendary mentor’s death.
The leak indicates that Chandler‘s older age profile wasn’t just a stylistic choice; it was natively baked into the script to position Hal as a legendary, tragic figure of a bygone era whose secrets are coming back to haunt the new generation.
The creative team behind Lanterns better have an immaculate, reality-shattering trick up their sleeve in the back half of the season, because right now, fans are ready to burn the Emerald Light down.
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