DC Studios’ upcoming Green Lantern HBO series Lanterns has found its supervillain. Per Deadline, the series has cast Ulrich Thomsen (The New Pope) as Sinestro, a former Green Lantern and Hal Jordan’s arch nemesis.
Sinestro was once a member of the Green Lantern Corps, being considered the greatest by all the Lanterns and their Guardians. He trained Hal Jordan when he became a Green Lantern, but Sinestro’s need for order and obedience turned him into a tyrant on his home planet, eventually eyeing the full power of the Green Lanterns for himself to control the universe. He was exiled from the Corps and became Jordan’s enemy, forming his own Sinestro Corps with yellow rings to rule the universe through fear. Sinestro was introduced in 1961’s Green Lantern #56 by John Broome and Gil Kane.
Thomsen is most known for HBO’s The Young Pope as well as Banshee and Counterpart. He will star alongside Aaron Pierre (Rebel Ridge) as Green Lantern recruit John Stewart, Kyle Chandler as Hal Jordan, Garrett Dillahunt (Where The Crawdads Sing) as William Macon, Kelly Macdonald (Boardwalk Empire) as Sheriff Kelly and Poorna Jagannathan (Never Have I Ever) as Zoe.
Lanterns follows Hal Jordan, a legend amongst the space police force known as the Green Lanterns, as he reluctantly mentors John Stewart, a younger Green Lantern. The two intergalactic cops get drawn into a dark, Earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland.
Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof and Eisner Award-winning comic book writer Tom King are executive producing and writing, with Mundy serving as showrunner. The series is a planned eight-episode season with James Hawes tapped to helm the first two episodes.
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