We should have seen this coming. After all, Max’s upcoming Green Lantern series is called Lanterns, plural. It has two Lanterns in its stars, Kyle Chandler (as Hal Jordan) and Aaron Pierre (as John Stewart), but heck, with that S on the end (and, yes, the existence of the whole Green Lantern Corps) it was basically inevitable that the other Green Lantern already cast in a current DC Studios property join the fun, too. That’s right: Nathan Fillion’s bowl-cutted Guy Gardner is also joining the series, fresh off his time playing the same role in James Gunn’s Superman.
Fillion has a history with the Green Lantern name; he previously voiced Hal Jordan in a handful of animated projects. But Guy is a different sort of Lantern than Hal. Sometimes he’s a member of the Justice League; sometimes he picks fights with Superman. Based on the tiny glimpse of him we got in the Superman trailer, this version doesn’t seem like the nicest dude. He might have a chip on his shoulder. Or several.
Fillion joins Chandler, Pierre, Kelly Macdonald, Garret Dillahunt, Poorna Jagannathan, and Ulrich Thomsen in Lanterns, which has Chris Mundy (Ozark, True Detective) as its showrunner. Mundy, Damon Lindelof, and Tom King wrote the pilot episode; James Hawes, Stephen Williams, Geeta Vasant Patel, and Alik Sakharov all directed episodes. The series is in production now.