In brightest day, in blackest night, Aaron Pierre will face the Man of Steel’s might.
Pierre, who is already playing Green Lantern hero John Stewart in HBO’s upcoming DC series Lanterns, is joining the cast of Man of Tomorrow, James Gunn’s sequel to 2025’s Superman.
Gunn wrote the script and is directing Man of Tomorrow, which is due to begin production this summer in Atlanta.
David Corenswet is back as Superman and Nicholas Hoult returns as Lex Luthor in a story that sees the two team up to fight the technological alien threat known as Brainiac. German actor Lars Eidinger is playing the latter, one of Superman’s classic villains.
The movie is due to bring back much of the cast, Rachel Brosnahan (Lois Lane), Skyler Gisondo (Jimmy Olsen) and Sara Sampaio (Eve Teschmacher) among them. Heroes returning include Hawkgirl, played by Isabela Merced, and The Engineer, played by Maria Gabriella de Faria.
Production is scheduled to begin April in Atlanta and go into the summer.
Pierre as Stewart is part of Gunn’s vision of having the DC screen universe, both the DC movies with the DC television shows, integrate seamlessly as one story universe. Stewart is a Green Lantern, one of the space cops patrolling Earth and its sector as part of the Green Lantern Corps, and his appearance make tonal sense as both Superman and Brainiac are space-faring characters with alien origins. Pierre is making his debut as the character in Lanterns, DC Studios’ first live-action series outing that will debut in August.
Pierre caught Hollywood’s attention with a commanding turn in Rebel Ridge, Netflix’s 2024 thriller directed by Jeremy Saulnier. Last year he did a stint on Apple TV’s The Morning Show and did voicework work in Mufasa: The Lion King as well last month’s GOAT.
Pierre is repped by WME, Anonymous Content and U.K.’s B-Side Management.