'Lanterns' Trailer Reveals Sinestro and Manhunter Mystery
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- HBO's 'Lanterns' unveiled a new trailer at San Diego Comic Con for the eight-episode DC Studios series, which premieres Aug. 16 and stars Kyle Chandler as veteran Green Lantern Hal Jordan and Aaron Pierre as his protégé John Stewart.
- Ulrich Thomsen debuts as Sinestro in the trailer — the former Green Lantern mentor to Jordan who flipped to villainy and later joined the Yellow Lantern Corps, a faction whose rings are powered by fear.
- Nathan Fillion reprises his Guy Gardner in a cameo, reprising the role he played in last year's 'Superman' and is set to return in the upcoming sequel 'Man of Tomorrow.'
- The series' central mystery involves a murder in rural Nebraska that may have alien connections, with the trailer revealing the killers are Manhunters — shape-shifting aliens capable of impersonating anyone.
- Tom King, Damon Lindelof, and Chris Mundy created the series, with DC Studios co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran executive producing; the show joins 'Creature Commandos' and 'Peacemaker' in the rebooted DC Universe.
- Up next for the DCU is the body-horror film 'Clayface' this fall, starring Tom Rhys Harries as the Batman villain.
Why it matters: With Gunn and Safran executive producing and an Aug. 16 premiere locked in, 'Lanterns' is the DCU's next major TV test — pairing a grounded rural murder-mystery aesthetic with cosmic Green Lantern mythology ahead of October's 'Clayface' film.
