Premiere Date, New Trailer for HBO/DC Series

The logline for HBO‘s Lanterns and a lot of the advertising and marketing and press across the present has emphasised that will probably be a “dark, earth-based mystery.” But the present will not confine itself completely to this world.

A brand new trailer for the DC Studios collection contains a shot of a planet that decidedly doesn’t appear to be Earth and Green Lantern Corps member Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) within the acquainted uniform from the comics (additionally presumably in an otherworldly setting). And whereas the first teaser for the series solely hinted on the energy of a Green Lantern ring, the brand new trailer makes express a few of the issues it could actually do. Watch the trailer beneath.

The trailer — which continues to play off the stress between Jordan and new Lantern Corps recruit John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) — additionally confirms that Nathan Fillion will reprise his function as Guy Gardner from final 12 months’s superman movie and reveals Laura Linney in an undisclosed function. In a scene late within the trailer, new Stewart confides to Linney’s character that “I was raised fearless, and I’ll do this better than [Jordan] “You have ever done it before.” She replies, “Then go and get it, John Stewart.”

Along with the trailer, HBO has set an Aug. 16 premiere date for Lanterns. The collection additionally stars Kelly MacdonaldGarrett Dillahunt, Poorna JagannathanJason Ritter, Ulrich Thomsen, J. Alphonse Nicholson and Jasmine Cephas Jones.

Chris Mundy (ozarks), Damon Lindelof (Watchmen, The Leftovers) and Eisner Award-winning comics author Tom King co-created the collection and wrote the primary episode. Mundy is the showrunner and govt produces with Lindelof, King, DC Studios heads James Gunn and Peter Safran, Ron Schmidt and James Hawes, who directed the primary two episodes. Stephen Williams, Geeta Vasant Patel and Alik Sakharov additionally directed episodes.