HBO officially picked up “Lanterns,” the first live-action series created expressly for DC Studios under co-chairmen/co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran, in June. The series was given an eight-episode, straight-to-series order by HBO, with Chris Mundy (“True Detective: Night Country,” “Ozark”) serving as showrunner and exec producer.

While Nicole Ari Parker's casting in 'Lanterns' makes headlines, fan debates over James Gunn's leadership are stealing the spotlight.

Nicole Ari Parker, star of the Sex and the City revival And Just Like That..., is set to star as Bernadette Stewart, John Stewart's mother, in HBO's Lanterns. The official description of Parker's character,