HBO‘s Lanterns is expanding its cast with the addition of Poorna Jagannathan.
The Never Have I Ever star will have a recurring part in the show from DC Studios and Warner Bros. TV. Her character, Zoe, is described as an effortlessly confident and poised woman in any setting, and as composed and cunning as the influential men around her.
Lanterns is based on DC’s long-running Green Lantern comics and stars Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre as, respectively, Hal Jordan and John Stewart, two of the best-known characters in the comics’ long history. HBO picked up Lanterns to series in June after years of start-and-stop development.
While the Green Lantern comics are galactic in scope, Lanterns will be a terrestrial story with a noirish vibe. Its logline reads, “The series follows new recruit John Stewart and Lantern legend Hal Jordan, two intergalactic cops drawn into a dark, Earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland.”
Kelly Macdonald and Garret Dillahunt have also been cast.
Chris Mundy (Ozark) is the showrunner for Lanterns and is co-writing the eight-episode season with Damon Lindelof (Lost, Watchmen) and Eisner Award-winning comics writer Tom King. They executive produce along with James Hawes, who is directing the first two episodes.
Jagannathan starred for four seasons on Netflix’s Never Have I Ever and was most recently seen in Apple TV+’s film Wolfs. Her credits also include HBO’s The Night Of and Hulu and Onyx Collective’s forthcoming series Deli Boys. She is repped by Gersh, Untitled Entertainment and Hansen Jacobson.
