“Lanterns” writer and executive producer Chris Cantwell has shot down talk of the series being cancelled at HBO Max after some wording in a trade report yesterday was wildly misinterpreted.
The piece, which appeared in Variety, went into the the big changes at DC Studios with Jeremy Latcham taking over duties from the outgoing James Gunn and Peter Safran.
While it didn’t say a decision had been made regarding the fate of “Lanterns”, online sharing of the article by some popular social media accounts and news aggregators seemingly mistook dubious inference for explicit fact.
Popping up on BlueSky to respond to the confirmation bias-infused chatter, Cantwell said in a post: “I haven’t heard a f—ing thing…Nothing’s [canceled]. Calm down.”
The talk seemed especially odd as less than a day before, “Lanterns” co-creator/co-showrunner Chris Mundy indicated to press the show’s fate was undecided and everyone on the show had been blindsided by the announcement.
While a second season renewal hasn’t been handed out, a writers room has been assembled in the hopes of more to come.
The show is averaging 22 million viewers per episode worldwide and still climbing, ahead of “The Penguin” (19.8m) but behind “IT: Welcome to Derry” (27.1m).
