UPDATE: To accompany the teaser, DC Studios has released a new character poster and promo featuring Ulrich Thomsen as the villainous Sinistro.
The brief promo includes more of Hal Jordan's meeting with his former mentor, which will presumably open next week's episode.
Lanterns episode 2, "Trust Fall," is now streaming, and HBO has released a teaser for next week's third episode.
We've seen Hal Jordan in his Green Lantern suit a few times at this stage, but fans have been wondering if the ring-slinging hero would don his classic domino mask. It seems Jordan used to wear the mask, as archival news footage confirms, but whether he'll suit up in his full costume in the present timeline remains to be seen.
The promo also reveals that we will learn more about John Stewart's troubled history, as the GL Corps recruit meets with the debuting Laura Linney as one of the Guardians of the Universe.
John believes he knows why the Guardians chose him, but Sinestro's warning to Hal in the closing moments of episode 2 suggests that there may be more to the alien overseers' decision to bring the former marine on board than he realizes.
“I immediately recognized the enormity of the opportunity and the gift that it is to engage with, first and foremost, this character and this world," Aaron Pierre said in a recent interview with THR. "And being the first live-action [John Stewart] is also something that I recognize the magnitude of,” Pierre says. “So it was very nerve-wracking, but I have a history and a habit of intentionally seeking out things that unnerve me.”
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HBO in association with Warner Bros. Television and DC Studios. The pilot episode is co-written by Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof, and Tom King, who are co-creators for the series. Mundy serves as showrunner. The first two episodes are directed by James Hawes, with Stephen Williams, Geeta Vasant Patel, and Alik Sakharov also tapped to direct. The series is executive produced by Mundy, Lindelof, James Gunn, Peter Safran, King, Ron Schmidt, and Hawes. Based on the DC comic characters from Green Lantern.
The series stars Kyle Chandler, Aaron Pierre, Kelly Macdonald, Garret Dillahunt, Poorna Jagannathan, Laura Linney, Jason Ritter, Ulrich Thomsen, Nathan Fillion, J. Alphonse Nicholson, and Jasmine Cephas Jones.
The series follows new recruit John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) and Lantern legend Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler), two intergalactic cops drawn into a dark, earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland.