Green Lantern 2

[DaveMoral]

WB can have their cake and eat it too. Soft reboot, reimagine how to realize the vision of GL on screen. Scrap the purely CGI suit, and give us a real costume enhanced by CGI... go with the New 52 design... and keep Reynolds but write Hal like Hal, not as if he's Van Wilder with a power ring. If they include more practical effects they can pull this thing off and come in under the budget of GL. And that means a practical costume as well as using animatronics for certain alien characters like the Guardians, Tomar-Re, and Kilowog. They can do them CGI for movement, action shots... but there's no reason an animatronic head can't be on set for Hal to talk to.

[HighFivingMF]

Originally Posted by Airwings

And the suit looks way more real than in the Campbell film.

Because that's a recolored fabric suit... The suit in the movie was a construct, which is what it looked like.

[HighFivingMF]

Originally Posted by DaveMoral

write Hal like Hal, not as if he's Van Wilder with a power ring.

You've either never read a Hal Jordan story or never seen Van Wilder. Other than the fact they both look like Ryan Reynolds, they're really nothing alike. Completely different styles of humor, completely different motivations, completely different performances. The only performances similar to Van Wilder that Reynolds has done are in Waiting and The Change-Up before they changed up.

Hal was written like Hal, Secret Origin Hal. In the sequel he would have obviously been more like he was at the end of the movie.

[Llama_Shepherd]

I wouldn't say he was too similar to Secret Origin Hal, because while he joked about occasionally, he was negligent, not immature, which was what Hal was in Green Lantern, and it made for a worse character, in my opinion.

[DaveMoral]

Secret Origin Hal is very different from film Hal. In SO he's a smart mouth with authority issues and a lot of buried anger. In the movie he's an arrogant ass that takes everything in his life for granted.

[HighFivingMF]

Originally Posted by DaveMoral

Secret Origin Hal is very different from film Hal. In SO he's a smart mouth with authority issues and a lot of buried anger. In the movie he's an arrogant ass that takes everything in his life for granted.

What parts in particular made you think that?

[Airwings]

HighFivingMF: I know the suit in the film is a construct. I just got impressed by how much better it look with an actual suit.

[Jordacar]

I kinda liked the novelty of the SFX suit because it made sense given the concept. But I think I'd prefer it to look more solid. Maybe just have the actor wear a real suit and in post they can flash up the green parts. Save a few bucks.

[itsyourmombro]

Idris elba for john stewart in jla!

[jrd550]

WB should give the franchise a second chance...

[MarvelKnight]

They should do it similar to TIH. Have sinestro and whatnot be the villain but reference the first film as little as possible.

[combocaz]

They should continues with green lantern 2, we saw the origin and now its time to move on. I dont want a reboot, continue with reynolds. sinestro vs GL.

[Airwings]

Originally Posted by MarvelKnight

They should do it similar to TIH. Have sinestro and whatnot be the villain but reference the first film as little as possible.

Originally Posted by Airwings

I really hope they make another, and re-cast the character, and present it as a reboot with just vague, very vague, hints that it could be a sequel as well, and have the film actually start where the other ended but at the same time work as a stand-alone adventure. Exactly like how it was done with Hulk and Incredible Hulk.

That means a different style. If we look at the Hulk adaptions: both were pretty dark, but while the first one was dramatic and serious, the second one more action-packed.
So the question we must ask is what we can take from the first film and use again in a reboot, while still change the way GL is approached. Any clues?

Maybe Ridley Scott should direct Green Lantern. He has a thing for space adventures.

[shauner111]

A Ridley Scott directed Green Lantern film starring Idris Elba as John Stewart

[Zionite1]

Id watch that.Never really cared for Gl but Id watch it.Plus Idris would look great in Justice League

[Lord]

I think that the GL origin was too good to be left off in a reboot, Green Lantern: Secret Origin itself was a great story, say whatever you want but the film didn't really adapt that story at all. Only thing they used was Hammond, the themes and best parts of the story were left off.

[chamber-music]

Originally Posted by itsyourmombro

Idris elba for john stewart in jla!

yeah

[KalMart]

They have yet to make a good GL 1 before even thinking about a GL 2. Hopefully they'll wait a long time until there's no shred of memory of the one they already tried.

[Hurm...]

Originally Posted by KalMart

They have yet to make a good GL 1 before even thinking about a GL 2. Hopefully they'll wait a long time until there's no shred of memory of the one they already tried.

They certainly will. Even if they release another GL 5 years from now, the GA will still remember the Ryan Reynolds abomination.

[Boosted]

only way to save GL is to make Idris Alba a badass john stewart in the JL movie.

[KalMart]

Originally Posted by Hurm...

They certainly will. Even if they release another GL 5 years from now, the GA will still remember the Ryan Reynolds abomination.

I was thinking more 10-15 years, at the very least.

[Hurm...]

Originally Posted by KalMart

I was thinking more 10-15 years, at the very least.

Oh definitely! Even the Catwoman spin-off feels fresh to me, and that came out 7 years ago. 10 years minimum is needed.

[The Guard]

Even if they release another GL 5 years from now, the GA will still remember the Ryan Reynolds abomination.

No they won't...most of them didn't see it.

[Revenger]

Because the buzz was so bad. And rightly so.

[MrGreen]

If Ghost Rider and Fantastic Four got a sequel then Green Lantern deserves one. GL wasn't as bad as everyone says. I like it and want a sequel, not a reboot. Just change director and writer and thats it.