{"id":377964,"date":"2026-09-15T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=377964"},"modified":"2026-09-30T09:20:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:20:03","slug":"hbos-lanterns-is-now-james-gunns-biggest-dc-imdb-breakout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/hbos-lanterns-is-now-james-gunns-biggest-dc-imdb-breakout\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO\u2019s Lanterns is now James Gunn\u2019s biggest DC IMDb breakout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HBO\u2019s <strong>Lanterns<\/strong>, the Green Lantern drama set in James Gunn and Peter Safran\u2019s rebooted DC Universe, has hit a new high on <a href=\"https:\/\/imdb-ripper.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">IMDb<\/a>\u2019s popularity rankings before a trailer has even dropped. It\u2019s currently the top-performing announced DCU title on the platform, which means that by IMDb\u2019s own measure, the series is drawing more attention than any other Gunn-era project so far, even if that kind of popularity doesn\u2019t map directly to ratings or box office.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The show pairs Hal Jordan and John Stewart in a grounded mystery, not a giant cosmic effects show, and that HBO-style prestige angle, along with the cast and the people making it, seems to be pulling in both longtime DC readers and more casual viewers while the larger <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/the-trailer-for-creature-commandos-the-first-series-of-the-new-dc-by-james-gunn-has-arrived\" rel=\"noopener\">DCU is still being tested<\/a><\/strong> beyond Superman.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyone following DC\u2019s reboot closely should keep an eye on this. Lanterns already feels like it could end up as <strong>one of the franchise\u2019s main TV pillars<\/strong>, and if that early interest turns into strong reviews and real audience turnout, it may also show how James Gunn and Peter Safran want to build this new universe outside the movies.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lanterns is coming to HBO.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HBO\u2019s Lanterns, the Green Lantern drama set in James Gunn and Peter Safran\u2019s rebooted DC Universe, has hit a new high on IMDb\u2019s popularity rankings before a trailer has even dropped. It\u2019s currently the top-performing announced DCU title on the platform, which means that by IMDb\u2019s own measure, the series is drawing more attention than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/hbos-lanterns-is-now-james-gunns-biggest-dc-imdb-breakout\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HBO\u2019s Lanterns is now James Gunn\u2019s biggest DC IMDb breakout&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9352,"featured_media":377963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6869],"class_list":["post-377964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","content-category-streaming-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377966,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377964\/revisions\/377966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377964"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=377964"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=377964"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=377964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}