
Green Lantern Is Cool Again: DC Writer Tom King on Making HBO’s ‘Lanterns’ After Fighting Terrorists as a CIA Officer
- Tom King reinvents Green Lantern as gritty HBO detective drama "Lanterns"
- King is a former CIA counterterrorism officer turned top comics writer
- Series stars Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre, out on HBO
DC Comics writer Tom King is helming HBO's new series "Lanterns," a gritty, detective-style reboot of the Green Lantern franchise designed to shed the character's poor Hollywood track record, notably the widely panned 2011 Ryan Reynolds film. King, who is also behind Marvel's "WandaVision" and DC's "Supergirl" adaptations,…





