Lanterns season 2 isn’t happening — not yet. But it’s also not off the table. The DC series, which concluded its first season last week with a mix of strong viewership and polarised fan reactions, has left the door slightly ajar for a follow-up. Chris Mundy, the showrunner, confirmed in interviews with Entertainment Weekly and The Ringer-Verse that while HBO hasn’t given an official green light, he’s not treating the debut as a one-and-done. 'We didn’t write toward platforming for our Season 2,' he said. 'But we always wrote assuming there would be a Season 2.' That distinction matters. It means the story wasn’t built to end here, even if the production team was racing against time to finish what they had. 'We were just trying by the skin of our teeth to finish this season,' Mundy admitted. He added that the creative team never approached the project as a limited series, even though some fans may have seen it that way. 'You’re going to. It’s going to be an Earth-based story that we continue most likely,' he said, hinting at a potential second season set on the planet. Rushville, where the first season unfolded, is unlikely to return unless something drastic happens, 'every 10 years' or so, he joked. Still, the door remains open. 'We’ve shown that you can leave the planet, so that’s good, right?' Mundy said. 'But because of that, we want to make whoever’s here as sort of grounded and real as possible.' The goal from the start? To root the cosmic spectacle in human stakes. Even if a second season doesn’t happen, the characters aren’t disappearing. Aaron Pierre is already back as John Stewart in Man of Tomorrow, alongside Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner. Mundy didn’t say whether the next chapter would focus on new Lanterns or revisit old ones. But he did say: 'It wasn’t like, “Oh, we’ve got a great idea for two and three, so let’s layer in.” Some of it is just, you take a look at what you made and what’s interesting to you and what’s useful and then you go from there.' So the future depends on what resonates. And whether HBO sees enough in the first season to keep going. For now, the answer is still unknown.