is returning to television and to superheroes. The writer-producer, one of the co-creators of seminal adventure series who later brought seminal comic to the screen as an acclaimed, Emmy-winning HBO limited series, is part of the creative team behind , the DC based-show from DC Studios. Lanterns, based on the heroes seen in the Green Lantern comics, will be bringing prestige storytelling energy behind the scenes.
Chris Mundy, the showrunner behind Netflix’s crime series , as well as Eisner-winning and long-time DC comic author Tom King round out the creative team, DC Studios co-head James Gunn Saturday. Gunn welcome Lindelof and Mundy into the DC family and said the trio had written a “wonderful” pilot script and bible, announcing that the series is now “putting together a crack team of writers.” is acting as one of the foundational shows for Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC Studios slate.
“This plays a really big role in leading into the main story we are telling across film and TV,” Safran said in January 2023 when he and Gunn . At the time, Safran also as being -like in tone, “more of a terrestrial-based investigation story.” It is unclear if that still holds though the social media post accompanied by drawings of heroes Hal Jordan and John Stewart, implying it will be a two-hander.
The vibe could also come from Mundy, who served as an exec producer and writer on the latest season, . After establishing his bona fides with , Lindelof co-created , the HBO super.
