RJ Cyler is the latest name to join Black Lightning Season 2.

Cyler will play Todd Green, the gangly and awkward tech genius who’s passed over for a research grant.  He doesn’t take it well, until he gets an offer to join Tobias Whale (series star Marvin “Krondon” Jones III).

The actor, who recently just appeared in the films Sierra Burgess is a Loser and White Boy Rick made his film debut in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and was also the Blue Power Ranger in the 2017 Lionsgate film.  He’s also starred in the Showtime series I’m Dying Up Here and will next star in MTV’s anthology series, Scream. 

Black Lightning, which airs Tuesdays at 9/8c on The CW, stars Cress Williams, China Anne McClain, Nafessa Williams, Marvin “Krondon” Jones III, Damon Gupton, Jordan Calloway and James Remar.

In Black Lightning, Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams) is a man wrestling with a secret. As the father of two daughters and principal of a charter high school that also serves as a haven for young people in a neighborhood overrun by gang violence, he is a hero in his community. Nine years ago, Pierce was a hero of a different sort. Gifted with the superhuman power to harness and control electricity, he used those powers to keep his hometown streets safe as the masked vigilante Black Lightning. However, after too many nights with his life on the line, and seeing the effects of the damage and loss that his alter ego was inflicting on his family, he left his superhero days behind and settled into being a principal and a dad. Choosing to help his city without using his superpowers, he watched his daughters, Anissa (Nafessa Williams) and Jennifer (McClain), grow into strong young women even though his marriage to their mother, Lynn (Adams), suffered. Almost a decade later, Pierce’s crime-fighting days are long behind him…or so he thought. But with crime and corruption spreading like wildfire, and those he cares about in the crosshairs of the menacing local gang The One Hundred, Black Lightning returns – to save not only his family but also the soul of his community.

Based on the characters from DC, Black Lightning is from Berlanti Productions and Akil Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television, with executive producers Greg Berlanti, Salim Akil, Mara Brock Akil and Sarah Schechter. Tony Isabella created the Black Lightning character with Trevor Von Eeden.