LANTERNS Set Photos Show Aaron Pierre's (Powerless?) John Stewart In The Middle Of A Gunfight

LANTERNS Set Photos Show Aaron Pierre's (Powerless?) John Stewart In The Middle Of A Gunfight

New photos from the set of Lanterns show Aaron Pierre's John Stewart in the midst of a firefight, but why isn't he using his Green Lantern Corps Power Ring to turn the tide? You can find out more here!

By JoshWilding - Apr 02, 2025 10:04 AM EST
Filed Under: Lanterns

Lanterns is currently shooting in Atlanta, and while we've already had a first official look at the DCU's Hal Jordan and John Stewart, the latter - portrayed by actor Aaron Pierre - has now been spotted on set. 

Once again, his superhero costume is nowhere to be found. We can't even see John's Green Lantern Corps Power Ring, and his carrying a gun into battle suggests he might not have it for some reason. 

Fans have wondered how Lanterns will portray these heroes, particularly on a television budget. HBO doesn't shy away from investing heavily in its offerings, but several episodes of CG-heavy Green Lantern action would soon add up; depowering Hal and John for a while might help.

While Lanterns has been described as a grounded story, Superman star, Nathan Fillion, has been confirmed to return as Guy Gardner. 

"This is James Gunn. He's amazing, he's huge, he's world famous," the actor recently said of his DCU experience thus far. "Everybody knows him. I did one of his very first movies, and if James Gunn is nothing else, he's loyal to a fault. He puts me into everything that he does."

"I'm going to be Guy Gardner, a Green Lantern, not the one you might be [familiar with] but a Green Lantern, the one nobody likes." 

As for his bowl cut (a crucial element from the comics, albeit one we never anticipated seeing in live action), Fillion added, "I think I'm going to bring that look back. It's comic book accurate; Guy Gardner had a bowl-cut. And there were some discussions early on about different hairdos we could try and I was team bowl-cut."

Kyle Chandler has yet to be spotted on set as Hal, so here's hoping this is just the first of many set photos we get. There will be a cosmic element to Lanterns - the Guardians of Oa and Sinestro are confirmed to appear - though how much of that we see on Earth remains to be seen. 

Gunn has said the costumes will be practical, not CG, so there's a chance we'll get to see Hal and John suited up in due course. 

DC Studios' Lanterns follows new recruit John Stewart and Lantern legend Hal Jordan, two intergalactic cops drawn into a dark, earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland.

Chris Mundy (True Detective: Night Country) is serving as showrunner and executive producer and will write Lanterns with Damon Lindelof (Watchmen) and comic book scribe Tom King (Supergirl). The cast includes Aaron Pierre as John Stewart, Kyle Chandler as Hal Jordan, and Ulrich Thomsen as Sinestro. 

Kelly Macdonald, Garret Dillahunt, Poorna Jagannathan, Nicole Ari Parker, Jason Ritter, J. Alphonse Nicholson, and Jasmine Cephas Jones round out the supporting cast.

Lanterns is set to premiere on HBO and Max in 2026.

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DocSpock
DocSpock - 4/2/2025, 10:11 AM

John Stewart will continue to headline every article while the great Hal Jordan will be mostly ignored.

Par for the course.
NoDaysOff
NoDaysOff - 4/2/2025, 10:33 AM
@DocSpock - Ain't no way people going to forget about Kyle Chandler, trust me.They won't do him dirty like that
DocSpock
DocSpock - 4/2/2025, 11:18 AM
@NoDaysOff -

We wish. Hal Jordan is Dc’s 3rd most important character. But he’ll be dead or nothing by the time the show is over.

Just like Snyder clumsily rammed Cyborg into the JL, Stewart will the headline GL.

Nothing wrong with that. He is a great character. But they should headline them both.

They won’t however. This sh!tty decision has already been made

NoDaysOff
NoDaysOff - 4/2/2025, 11:53 AM
@DocSpock - I mean they already tried to give Hal his due, never really Stewart before... It just sucked. If he dies or not Who knows but I really beleive Chandler will be the MVP. If he gets another shot in a season 2 or a movie who knows but let's see first.

No doubt they're positioning Pierre to be a lead going forward though.

I was also a bit worried with the casting of an older Hal, but Chandler eased those worries.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 4/2/2025, 12:47 PM
@NoDaysOff -

I hope you are right. Having them both headline a great GL movie or 2 would be fantastic.

I doubt that fits their agenda though.
Odekahn
Odekahn - 4/2/2025, 1:22 PM
@DocSpock - I just worry that when the inevitable Justice League movie gets made, Hal won’t be the GL because “meh DEI”. If Hal gets shorted because of that, as much as it pains me, I’ll skip it. Looking forward to Lanterns and really hoping they do Hal right.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 4/2/2025, 1:25 PM
@Odekahn -

This looks like how they will go for exactly that reason.

Sad.
Baf
Baf - 4/2/2025, 2:28 PM
@DocSpock - Hal and what he represents might just have to make the ultimate sacrifice to bring any kind of Lantern to the public. This might just leave Hal and his story in the pages of comics. I hope not. However, I truly believe it is more important to get the point across that it's not about the ring. It's about why the person that wears it, deserves it. "Will" is a superpower, and some people have more of it than others.
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 4/2/2025, 10:16 AM
Hey Wait a minute, that's not a ring, that's a gun, how the hell did Gunn f**k that up so bad?
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 4/2/2025, 10:17 AM
John channeling his inner Simon Baz…

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It looks like he’s wearing nurse scrubs or something to me so perhaps he went undercover and hence took off the ring for that…

Something goes wrong thus has to use his military training and a gun to get out the situation?.

I’m not gonna rush to judgement until I see the series and get context since it could just be for an episode if anything.
RedFury
RedFury - 4/2/2025, 11:03 AM
@TheVisionary25 - I thought they resembled more of a medical patients clothing than a nurse, but going under cover as a nurse could be a definite possibility. My guess is that he gets knocked out at some point, and wakes up in some kind of prison facility medical ward without his ring, and is then forced to break out; hence him having the gun and looking all dirty.

Either way I'm sooooo excited for this show. I really hope they strike a nice balance between the sci-fi and grounded elements. The fact that Sinestro is going to be in it tells me that we're definitely going to get some heavy sci-fi scenes. A pink dude doesn't exactly fit a solely grounded earth adventure I don't think lol.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 4/2/2025, 11:05 AM
@RedFury - I thought so too but it seems to have a name tag on it otherwise I could see the scenario you are talking about…

I agree though , probably my most anticipated DC project right now!!.
RedFury
RedFury - 4/2/2025, 11:14 AM
@TheVisionary25 - that's a good point, the name-tag throws my theory off a bit if that is in fact a name tag. They just look very pajama to me, and that screams inmate or patient in my mind. I did a little Google and inmate scrubs do look a lot more like what he's wearing compared to nurse scrubs. I might even go as far as saying that they look like something from an institution.

I'm apparently in some kind of detective mood today lol.
V
V - 4/2/2025, 10:30 AM
Should have been Rookie Hal and Vetern Sinestro but will keep y hopes up
IronGenesis
IronGenesis - 4/2/2025, 10:31 AM
So this is going to be the play to sow major pre release hate for Lanterns?

Every single paparazzi shot of a non-cgi scene … which will amount to maybe 30 seconds of total screen time …

Meant to subtly hint that the show will have no effects whatsoever

Try harder guys.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 4/2/2025, 10:32 AM
Does Stewart get his powers in this series or I wonder why he doesn't have the ring?
TheWinkler
TheWinkler - 4/2/2025, 10:44 AM
Did it occur to any of you nerds that this could be pre-ring Stewart, or perhaps a John that hasn't quite gotten a handle on the ring yet, so he goes back to his military training to get through a tight spot?
elcapitan
elcapitan - 4/2/2025, 10:51 AM
@TheWinkler - That's what I was thinking. Maybe Jordan recruited Stewart because of his training, thinking he could make a good Lantern as his eventual replacement. But he hasn't yet earned the ring.
EskimoJ
EskimoJ - 4/2/2025, 12:37 PM
@TheWinkler - Not a single one of them.

They're here to bitch and moan and nothing else.
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 4/2/2025, 11:07 AM
John probably aims his ring sideways
RedFury
RedFury - 4/2/2025, 11:18 AM
@harryba11zack - ?si=O9ZFC2yR-SYhgV6z
FrankTheTank87
FrankTheTank87 - 4/2/2025, 11:11 AM
To me this feels like Hal Jordan is sent by the Green Lantern Corps to investigate the murder of one of their own. This looks like Jon Stewart is in some kind of mess and got himself in a shoot out with some bad people. The ring from the currently dead Green Lantern hasn’t chosen him yet. When the Green Lantern Corps sees how Hal isn’t handling this situation properly, they send Guy Gardner and Sinestro to solve this mess and get results. It feels like this will be more “True Detective” with Green Lanterns involved. They aren’t just gonna shoot right out the gate with both of them being Green Lanterns. They have to bring some grounded parts to this story. What better way then Jon not getting chosen til the end of the show. Leading into a bigger world then just murders in a small town.
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 4/2/2025, 12:48 PM
Too often in too many superhero TV shows in adaptations from all the comic book companies have we seen far too little in costume superhero action. Lanterns (dumb name) is about to do the proverbial hold my beer moment.
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 4/2/2025, 1:22 PM
Why is it Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Wolverine, James Bond, Ethan Hint, etc. can have multiple live action movies, but Hal Jordan can't?

Hal should be the 20 or 30 something protagonist of a good Green Lantern movie(s) set in the new DCCU.
Odekahn
Odekahn - 4/2/2025, 1:26 PM
If they kill Hal to make a significantly less popular GL the main GL, this shit is going to fail. I’d think movie and TV makers would be learning right about now, but I have no confidence in DC here. Praying this is good!
soberchimera
soberchimera - 4/2/2025, 2:57 PM
Fillion should have been cast as Hal at least, but then Hal would have overshadowed John and we can’t have that, so they went with the dude who got passed over for Cable…
campblood
campblood - 4/2/2025, 6:33 PM
I’m calling it now. Hal will die in the show and the ring will go to John

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