The wait is nearly over. Lanterns premieres on HBO tonight, bringing two of the most famous Green Lanterns into James Gunn’s DCU – and its creator has made a big promise about what we can expect from the series. While Lanterns is the latest entry to Gunn and Peter Safran’s rebooted DC Universe, don’t go expecting a traditional superhero show. The eight-part series is inspired by crime dramas like True Detective and Slow Horses. The story itself is set across two timelines – 2016 and 2026, the latter of which lines up with the DCU’s present day, established in Peacemaker and Superman. Although Nathan Fillion’s Guy Gardner is set to make an appearance, Lanterns primarily follows two other members of the Green Lantern Corps: veteran Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) and new recruit John Stewart (Aaron Pierre). Ahead of its premiere, showrunner Chris Mundy has addressed one of the biggest questions surrounding the series: just how much of the famously huge, cosmic Green Lantern universe are we actually going to see? Speaking to SFX, Mundy explained that the team deliberately wanted to begin the story with its feet on Earth, allowing audiences to get to know the characters before expanding its scope. “We wanted to make sure that we were firmly walking the Earth first, and then hopefully you can build those relationships, and that trust inside the show, and you can keep doing more and more,” he said. But for anyone worried Lanterns might never embrace the weirder side of its source material, Mundy made his intentions pretty clear, saying, “We’d be stupid not to use everything that you can do inside the Green Lantern universe.” “They have these abilities. They have the ring. Their world is just bigger, and the way we use our storytelling can be bigger too,” he continued. “We sometimes had to remind ourselves that there’s as much or as little sci-fi in it as we want there to be.” Sound good? Then you’re going to want to know exactly when the premiere drops so you don’t miss a thing. Here’s the exact release time of Lanterns season 1 episode 1 Credit: HBO Max The Lanterns premiere drops on Sunday, August 16, at 6pm PT and 9pm ET. If you’re in the US, you can watch it live on the HBO channel or on HBO Max. The rest of the world can watch it on HBO Max. We’ve listed several timezones below so you know when to tune in: 8pm CT (Central Time) 2am BST (UK Time, Monday) 3am CEST (Central European Summer Time, Monday) 6.30am IST (India Standard Time, Monday) 10am JST (Japan Standard Time, Monday) 11am AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time, Monday) 1pm NZST (New Zealand Standard Time, Monday) There’s something else you should know – the episode one runtime is around an hour long. Full release schedule Credit: HBO Max Lanterns isn’t releasing multiple episodes in one go. So, it’ll follow a standard weekly schedule through to the finale, with eight episodes in season one. The full release schedule is as follows: Episode 1 – August 16 Episode 2 – August 24 Episode 3 – August 31 Episode 4 – September 7 Episode 5 – September 14 Episode 6 – September 21 Episode 7 – September 28 Episode 8 – October 5 For all the latest film and TV updates and hot takes, like our Facebook page. Featured image credit: HBO Max Post navigation Next story
