Sherman Augustus Joins ‘Lanterns’ DC Series At HBO

EXCLUSIVE: Sherman Augustus (Stranger Things) is set for a key recurring role in Lanterns, HBO’s drama series based on the Green Lantern DC comic. He joins leads Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre and series regular Kelly MacDonald.

The series, from Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof and Tom King, follows new recruit John Stewart (Pierre) and Lantern legend Hal Jordan (Chandler), two intergalactic cops drawn into a dark, Earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland.

Augustus will play John Senior, who is John Stewart’s father and the human embodiment of “stubborn.” In his own reality, he tends to fixate on the past and what could have been.

Cast also includes Poorna Jagannathan, Ulrich Thomsen, Jason Ritter and J. Alphonse Nicholson, who plays the young version of Sherman’s John Senior.

The eight-episode Lanterns is produced by HBO in association with Warner Bros Television and DC Studios. Mundy, who serves as showrunner, Lindelof and King are co-writing and executive producing. James Hawes is directing the first two episodes and also exec producing.

Augustus recurs on Netflix’s Stranger Things, which airs its fifth and final season later this year, and recently starred in the feature film The Banality. He was a series regular 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 Sun. Past series regular credits include ABC’s Marlowe and Fox’s Profit. He’s repped by Arise Artists Agency and Link Entertainment.