Lanterns Actor Aaron Pierre Joins the Cast of James Gunn’s Man of Tomorrow
By Green Lantern’s light! It looks like DC‘s Superman sequel, Man of Tomorrow, is adding Lanterns actor Aaron Pierre to its cast! That’s right, folks! The actor who plays John Stewart in HBO’s upcoming DC series Lanterns is making a play for Man of Tomorrow, the sequel to 2025’s Superman.
Who’s Returning for the Superman Sequel?
Man of Tomorrow finds James Gunn returning as the sequel’s director and writer, with a story that sees Superman and Lex Luthor matching wits and might with the villain Brainiac, played by German actor Lars Eidinger. Production for Man of Tomorrow should begin this summer in Atlanta, with several cast members from the original film returning, including David Corenswet as Clark Kent/Superman, Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, Skyler Gisondo as Jimmy Olsen, and Sara Sampaio as Eve Teschmacher. Others expected to return are Isabela Merced as Hawkgirl and Maria Gabriella de Faria as The Engineer.
DC fans can catch Aaron Pierre as John Stewart when HBO’s Lanterns premieres in August. In Lanterns, two intergalactic cops investigate a murder in the American heartland. A teaser trailer for Lanterns dropped last week, giving us a glimpse of the show’s True Detective-like tone and gritty look. While it doesn’t look like the Green Lantern series fans imagined (or hoped for), DC is making strides to keep audiences guessing about where the DCU will go next, and I love that. As I’d said in other articles, I’d rather they take a wild swing and fail than do what people expect of them with minimal effort or risk.
Lanterns Co-creator and Showrunner Teases the New Series
Last year, co-creator and showrunner Chris Mundy confirmed a few details during a Men’s Health interview, including that it will span different time periods, which is one way Lanterns is similar to True Detective.
“Our story takes place in a couple of different time periods and so the challenge was for the characters be consistent at their core,” Mundy said. “John’s sort of a different person in one of them than he is in another. And I do think the physicality and magnetism that Aaron brings to the role brought that all together. That theater training, that wanting to be in the minutia of the work and the craft, it really added to John’s character from all sides. It added dimension to the more physical side of the role, and to the more emotional, creative part of the role.”
Mundy added that they wanted a buddy-cop vibe between Hal and John. “Kyle’s character has kind of a throwback Chuck Yeager vibe to him. He’s the kind of guy who you meet, and you don’t know whether you like him or you want to punch him,” he said. “Then there’s Aaron, who has a quiet authority about him, and I think that’s important to their dynamic, to the story we’re telling. And literally from day one, Kyle started giving Aaron shit for being young and inexperienced. And then Aaron started giving Kyle shit for being an old man. You’d see it in between takes too—they’d start messing with each other would just keep sitting there playing with that dynamic in the best way. And because all the dialogue is supposed to be in a very back-and-forth style, they were into that rhythm before they even got into those scenes.”
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