The season finale of Lanterns is now streaming, and the show's 2nd AC, Traci Chartier, has taken to Instagram to share some revealing new behind-the-scenes photos highlighting most of the episode's biggest moments.
The shots include BTS looks at John Stewart preparing to dunk Sinestro in the water on Antaan's nameless home planet, Hal Jordan lying near the machine that Noah Macon used to heal him after his house was firebombed (yes, he also rescued Earl), John taking his first flight, and Sheriff Kerry aiming her gun at Hal's head.
Stewart isn't technically a Green Lantern, since he established himself as an "independent contractor," and we're still not sure what to call him. Interestingly, some concept art reveals that the power battery Sinestro forged for Noah is known as the "Dark Lantern."
"Dirt and Stars" ended with a funny, emotional exchange between Stewart and Hal(Ogram), with the latter tricking his trainee (that is, his deceased older self's trainee) into saying, "I love you." With a wink, Hal returns the sentiment.
“The characters, they fell in love through this action and this friendship,” Kyle Chandler said of the scene (via Indiewire). “Although it was pretty rocky, I got to say. But for that moment to occur at the end, it was just such a human factor. Maybe in a film from the ’50s or the ’60s, you’ve got The Duke standing there, and he’s just not going to say, ‘Well, I love you, kid’ — it just didn’t happen that way back then. But these were words that were actually expressed, and it was really nice to be able to do that. It was painfully exposed.”
“It was a joyous thing to be able to do on screen,” Chandler added, joking, “And it was easy to do with Aaron because, although I really don’t like him very much, I knew I was getting paid. So, you know, the checks passed.”
“They actually paid me what I got for the whole season just to be here with you, Kyle,” Aaron Pierre responded. “It’s funny because Kyle and I, so much of our dynamic in the series is tumultuous and it’s volatile. […] But when there were moments in the script that made us stop that and really lock into the emotional beat, that was really quite moving for us, I think, as the characters but also as the individuals playing the characters.”
“Kyle believes he made me cry on that day,” Pierre said. “I think I made him cry, but we’ll have to let the episode bear and see what the verdict is, you know?”
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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.