and we’ll say it again: HBO is making a Green Lantern TV show. Announced earlier today, HBO has spoken the oath and given the green light to , an eight-episode series written by HBO veteran and geek-culture pariah Damon Lindelof and comics legend Tom King. showrunner Chris Mundy will run the show, which promises multiple lanterns and an “earth-based mystery.
” Though we’d all like to take place in the lighting section of Home Depot, it will, alas, follow rookie Lantern John Stewart and grizzled veteran of the Corp Hal Jordan as they “investigate a murder in the American heartland.” Nothing says “Green Lantern adventure” quite like the logline “two intergalactic cops drawn into a dark, earth-based mystery.” Still, we’re starting to understand why HBO hired Mundy, an executive producer on .
If there was ever a Green Lantern series that sounds like , it’s . HBO’s Green Lantern project has been up and down ever since Dwayne Johnson . Originally a series by -verse creator Greg Berlanti and , to .
But the disappointing response to was effectively the straw that broke the ’s back. days later, making the series’ swan song. For their part, Gunn and Safran are “thrilled to bring this seminal DC title to HBO,” calling an “original detective story that is a foundational part of the unified DCU we’re launching next summer with .
” Speaking of , that film already has a direct connection to the Green Lantern Corp. . Whatever Gunn and Safran have in mind.