EXCLUSIVE: Sherman Augustus (Stranger Issues) is ready for a key recurring function in Lanterns, HBO’s drama collection primarily based on the Inexperienced Lantern DC comedian. He joins leads Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre and collection common Kelly MacDonald.
The collection, from Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof and Tom King, follows new recruit John Stewart (Pierre) and Lantern legend Hal Jordan (Chandler), two intergalactic cops drawn right into a darkish, Earth-based thriller as they examine a homicide within the American heartland.
Augustus will play John Senior, who’s John Stewart’s father and the human embodiment of “cussed.” In his personal actuality, he tends to fixate on the previous and what may have been.
Solid additionally contains Poorna Jagannathan, Ulrich Thomsen, Jason Ritter and J. Alphonse Nicholson, who performs the younger model of Sherman’s John Senior.
The eight-episode Lanterns is produced by HBO in affiliation with Warner Bros Tv and DC Studios. Mundy, who serves as showrunner, Lindelof and King are co-writing and govt producing. James Hawes is directing the primary two episodes and likewise exec producing.
Augustus recurs on Netflix’s Stranger Issues, which airs its fifth and closing season later this yr, and just lately starred within the characteristic movie The Banality. He was a collection common on AMC’s Into the Badlands, and recurred/guest-starred on HBO’s Westworld, USA’s Colony, NBC’s American Odyssey and AMC’s Low Winter Solar. Previous collection common credit embrace ABC’s Marlowe and Fox’s Revenue. He’s repped by Come up Artists Company and Hyperlink Leisure.
