Kyle Chandler has played a small-town football coach, a federal agent and the guy desperately trying to keep Godzilla-related disasters under control. Now he gets to add Green Lantern and the newest addition to DC's upcoming project slate to his résumé, and apparently slipping on Hal Jordan’s superhero suit has given the normally low-key actor a dangerous amount of confidence, enough confidence, in fact, to start talking trash about Batman.While speaking with Variety at San Diego Comic-Con about HBO’s upcoming Lanterns, Chandler was asked what it was like finally wearing Hal Jordan’s superhero suit. The Friday Night Lights star clearly loved it. He loved it enough, in fact, to declare victory over Batman before nervously checking whether the Dark Knight was standing nearby. He joked: It’s the coolest suit I’ve seen. I mean, Batman has nothing on us. Just saying. He’s not here, is he? [Laughs]First of all, I respect the confidence. I mean, Batman has spent the better part of a century being one of DC’s best-dressed superheroes. The Batsuit has been rubber, armor, tactical gear and whatever 'nipple-clad atrocity ' George Clooney was wearing in Batman & Robin. There are entire corners of the internet devoted to ranking those costumes. Chandler gets one Green Lantern suit and immediately tells Bruce Wayne to take a seat. Honestly, I never knew he was so funny. Check out the clip for yourself below:A post shared by Variety (@variety)A photo posted by on To be fair to the Super 8 actor, I think the Lanterns costume does look pretty great from what we have seen so far. More importantly, it is an actual suit. That distinction probably matters to Green Lantern fans who still have memories of Ryan Reynolds wearing a fully CGI costume in the 2011 movie.(Image credit: HBO Max)Chandler’s Hal Jordan will be one of the central characters in the new DCU series alongside Aaron Pierre’s John Stewart. According to DC, Hal has been training John for about two months when the series begins, and their relationship already looks a little prickly. Hal also seems aware that his younger partner could eventually replace him.Lanterns is primarily an Earth-based mystery, with Hal and John investigating a case while dealing with a much larger extraterrestrial threat. The trailers have also shown the Green Lantern rings doing what they do best, with John creating a bird construct and Hal using his to make a bottle opener. Because apparently intergalactic peacekeeping occasionally requires opening a beer.The series will also bring back Nathan Fillion’s Guy Gardner following his appearance in Superman, while Ulrich Thomsen plays Sinestro. Kelly Macdonald, Poorna Jagannathan, Jason Ritter and Laura Linney are among the other members of the cast.The pressure is definitely on Lanterns to deliver for the still-developing DCU, especially after Supergirl struggled at the box office. The shared universe is still young, and every new project is doing a little bit of heavy lifting when it comes to convincing audiences that James Gunn and Peter Safran’s larger plan is worth sticking around for.I loved both Creature Commandos and Peacemaker Season 2, so I’m excited to see the DCU expand on the small screen again. Aaron Pierre already feels like a great fit for John Stewart, and Chandler brings the kind of weathered, slightly cranky energy that makes sense for an older Hal Jordan. If the show can make that pairing work while finally giving Green Lantern fans a live-action project they can brag about, Lanterns could be a pretty important win for DC.If Chandler’s costume is indeed cooler than Batman’s, he now has the chance to prove it in front of millions of DC fans. No pressure! Lanterns premieres on August 16 and will be available to stream with an HBO Max subscription, which means we are just days away from seeing Hal Jordan and John Stewart in action.