James Gunn confirms Lanterns HBO release date, hours after the teaser was mysteriously pulled from YouTube

James Gunn has confirmed Lanterns is set to premiere on August 16 on HBO Max. The show is the next in DC Studios heads' Gunn and Peter Safran's DCU Chapter One and arrives just after Supergirl's cinematic release in June.

The release date had already been rumored after a new trailer was released yesterday on DC's YouTube channel. In it the August date was confirmed but it was quickly pulled offline. It seems someone might have jumped the gun on the announcement as it's now back up, complete with the August 16 date confirmed at the end.

Alongside the date announcement, Gunn shared a new image from the show as well. This shows a close up of a ring colliding with the actual green lantern. "Beware my power, Green Lantern's light," Gunn captioned the image.

Created by Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof, and Tom King, Lanterns follows intergalactic peacekeepers, the Green Lanterns. This series focuses on two of the peacekeeping corps, seasoned Lantern Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) and new recruit John Stewart (Aaron Pierre), as they investigate a murder in Nebraska.

Billed as having a bit of a True Detective vibe, showrunner Mundy previously described it as being "as much of a buddy cop show as a superhero show." He told Men's Health: "Our show is in a lot of ways about replacement – when should someone step aside and when is it time for the next person to take the reins? That push and pull between those two characters is really important."

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