Hold onto your baseball caps because Eric Taylor, AKA the coach from Friday Night Lights, AKA Kyle Chandler, is going to star as Hal Jordan in a Green Lantern series for HBO, according to Hollywood Reporter and Deadline.

HBO and DC's Lanterns series is poised to start production, successfully casting Kyle Chandler as Hal Jordan, the most famous Green Lantern.

Kyle Chandler has reportedly been cast as Hal Jordan aka Green Lantern in Lanterns, one of the upcoming TV shows in James Gunn and Peter Safran's new DCU slate. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Chandler is set to don the green suit for the new show,

Lights" lead Kyle Chandler is reportedly in talks to star in "Lanterns," a new HBO series based on DC Comics' "Green Lantern."

The "True Detective"-esque "Lanterns" found its new Hal Jordan after Josh Brolin turned down the opportunity. HBO's Green Lanterns series found its first inductee to the Lantern Corps. after Josh Brolin passed on an offer.

B ack in June, we brought you news that HBO's long-gestating Green Lantern series had finally gotten, well, the green light. Nabbing itself an eight episode straight-to-series ord