Director Hired For HBO Max Green Lantern Series

The Direct reports that Warner Bros. has hired Superman & Lois director Lee Toland Krieger to helm the upcoming Green Lantern series on HBO Max.

As previously reported, the series will include multiple Green Lanterns, with Finn Wittrock playing Guy Gardner while Jeremy Irvine plays Alan Scott. There will also be a new female hero named Bree Jarta, but that role has yet to be cast. Scott’s storyline will take place in the 1940s while Garnder and Jarta’s happen in the 1980s. Meanwhile, it’s rumored that Sinestro will make an appearance in the show.

Seth Grahame-Smith will be the showrunner of the series, which will have ten episodes in its first season. Krieger will direct multiple episodes, including the pilot. Berlanti Productions will produce. Krieger also worked with Berlanti to direct episodes of Riverdale, You, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Prodigal Son. His most recent work was the first two episodes of Netflix’s Shadow and Bone. His film work includes 2012’s Celeste and Jesse Forever and 2015’s The Age of Adaline.

The pilot episode begins filming in Los Angeles this September.