HBO DC 'Lanterns' Series Gets Chance With Garret Dillahunt In Recurring Role
HBO DC 'Lanterns' Series Gets Chance With Garret Dillahunt In Recurring Role
From Deadwood to DC, the 'Raising Hope' actor is sprung back to being a cowboy
When there’s hope, there’s willpower. Seems my suspicion that more casting would come out rather quickly for Lanterns, HBO’s upcoming Green Lantern series part of DC Studios’s new DC Universe, was correct. The show has already cast a second supporting player, just two days after adding Kelly Macdonald as Sheriff Kerry, and it is Garret Dillahunt saying howdy to a major recurring role.
The actor is set to play “modern cowboy” William Macon, described as a self-righteous, conspiracy-minded man who masks his ruthless ambition behind a charming and calculated facade. A simple Google search did not return a single result for anything DC-related regarding the name, not even a wiki stub of some hypothetical long-forgotten extremely minor character, just a bunch of real people with the name. So the character certainly seems original to the series, but maybe he’ll make his way to the comics someday. The actor currently stars in Robert O’Hara’s new play Shit. Meet. Fan., having its world premiere off-Broadway at the MCC Theater. He is also recurring on ABC’s new crime series High Potential, starring Kaitlin Olson, and Peacock’s comedy horror-thriller Hysteria!, which premiered on October 18. He’s personally best known as Burt Chance on the Fox comedy series Raising Hope. His other series regular roles include Deadwood, A Minute With Stan Hooper, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, John from Cincinnati, The Mindy Project, Fear the Walking Dead, and Freevee’s Sprung, which reunited him with Raising Hope creator Greg Garcia and co-star Martha Plimpton.
Lanterns stars Aaron Pierre as John Stewart and Kyle Chandler as Hal Jordan, respectively the new recruit being paired with a Lantern legend, as they are “two intergalactic cops drawn into a dark, earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland.” The eight-episode series is currently set to film from January to June in Atlanta. It comes from showrunner Chris Mundy, previously of Ozark, and co-writers and executive producers Damon Lindelof (Lost, Watchmen) and Tom King, whose Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow book is the basis of the Universe’s second movie, currently set to be released in June 2026. It is looking as if Lanterns is meant to premiere in early 2026, which would therefore place it before the film in release. James Hawes directs the first two episodes and also executive produces.
Speaking of Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn confirmed the casting of Eve Ridley as Ruthye Marye Knoll saying “Yes, this is accurate. Welcome to the DCU, Eve! So happy to have found our Ruthye!” as well as Matthias Schoenarts as the villain Krem, calling him “Such a great actor.”
