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Fifteen years after Ryan Reynolds brought Hal Jordan to life in Green Lantern, there’s a new superhero in town.
As part of James Gunn and Peter Safran’s revamped DC Universe, Kyle Chandler is starring as Hal in the new series Lanterns, with the legendary hero showing new Green Lantern recruit John Stewart (played by Aaron Pierre) the ropes as they investigate a murder in Nebraska. The series has drawn early comparisons to True Detective and is quite a different take than the Reynolds film, which famously bombed at the box office.
At the L.A. premiere on Thursday, co-creator Tom King admitted he has “a soft spot” for the Green Lantern movie but “that was big and cosmic and huge — let’s take that energy but turn it into a character study and bring it down so that we can give something that has scale and power and energy in a different sort of way.” Chandler also emphasized when it came to portraying Hal Jordan, “I did my own thing” in comparison to Reynolds’ version.
“The main thing was to get the relationship down with Aaron and us to figure out what our parameters were, what we wanted to do and to get that relationship opened up and have fun together, and luckily that worked well,” Chandler continued. “We get on really easily so that was imperative.”
