DC Universe Animated Green Lantern Movie Thread

[Webhead2006]

cool pics.

 

[BlackLantern]

im staying away from pics and out of this thread as much as possible....i am such a huge GL fan, I want to see it all live and moving

 

[THE MR. TERRIFIC]

Can't wait for this one. Just a few more weeks!

 

[greenlantern248]

yup won't be long now

 

[Keyser Soze]

I'll be seeing it Thursday at Comic-Con!

 

[greenlantern248]

Well aren't you a lucky one.

I plan on getting my copy monday the 27th

 

[Webhead2006]

I wish i could go to a comic con. Though i am in upstate ny

 

[BlackLantern]

I went last summer and the summer before....from CT....not going this year, have to pay for school...Ill probably go to WonderCon though, havent been there yet

 

[Ion Kenshin]

I wish i could go to a comic con. Though i am in upstate ny

You should come down for NYCC in October. I wouldn't mind showing you around and such. It's a good time. The next one is going to be the biggest they have ever had.

 

[Webhead2006]

ironically i lived in ny state all my life and i never been down to nyc, been wanting to go there for years.

 

[Ion Kenshin]

ironically i lived in ny state all my life and i never been down to nyc, been wanting to go there for years.

By all means come down. If you need a place to stay Im sure I could help with that. I know it's weird to make an offer like that to people you don't know online but hey why not

 

[protocida]

 

[dnno1]

It's almost like that article should be in the GL caption thread.

 

[Webhead2006]

nice little article.

 

[phoenixflight]

Cool new pic...

 

[Webhead2006]

Are those known lanterns behind hal, if so who is who?

 

[Sawyer]

That Guardian looks badass.

 

[GL's Light]

Some more casting confirmed by World's Finest:

John Laroquette is playing Tomar Re, Kurtwood Smith is Kanjar Ro, and David Lander is Ch'p.

 

[JTStarkiller]

Harry Knowles' review (he loved it, as expected)...

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/41687

 

[TheComicbookKid]

That Guardian looks old as heck.

 

[cerealkiller182]

Cool new pic...

Kinda looks like the old Men In Black tv series

 

[NightBeetle]

More Pics

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Alan Burnett: "FIRST FLIGHT Is Hal Jordan's TRAINING DAY"

You see, the way Burnett puts it, even though the man has been an essential part of the DC Animation family since the original Batman: The Animated Series, he never thought he would ever work on a Green Lantern story.

“I always wanted to work on Green Lantern,” Burnett confesses, “but I never thought much about it because I never thought I’d get to do him.”

The Training Day-flavored film flew with the powers that be at Warners and DC, and Burnett had the job. From the sounds of it, he didn’t have too difficult a job fleshing out a script.

“Cop shows in general had their effect,” says Burnett. “I started thinking of the universe as a group of precincts, with the commissioner’s office at Oa. You really almost have to do something like that because the world of the Green Lanterns is just so huge. This way you can bring it down to simpler terms and get a handle on it. Besides, the Corp is essentially a police force. Your local policeman is supposed to be a guardian, and some of them do go crooked.

“When you do see First Flight, you can see Training Day pretty clearly. Sinestro is the good guy gone bad. Hal is the rookie he wants to train to his specifications. Sinestro thinks he can talk Hal to his side because he’s aware just how duplicitous humans can be. Really, Sinestro is quite attracted to humans. I mean there are things going on in the background and the rookie, Hal, has no idea just how deep they go. So it started from there, then it got its own life. It worked out from there.”

From there, it was a simple job for Burnett.

“The hardest part was trying to fit in as many [Lanterns] as I could,” says Burnett. “The original script was like 90 pages long. That is way too long. I had to let them do some cutting in the end, after they did the boards. What it came down to is there are a handful of Green Lanterns that had to have lines. What I will say to GL fans is to look around in the background; you’ll see others pop up. They may not have lines, but they are there.”

He handed off his script to the fast-rising star at DC Animation, Lauren Montgomery. With the casting of the likes of Chris Meloni as Hal, Victor Garber as Sinestro, Michael Madsen as Kilowog, John Larroquette as Tomar-Re, and Tricia Helfer as Boodikka, it all came together pretty quickly.

“Michael Madsen plays Kilowog so well. Then again, I love Kilowog. He’s a lot of fun to write,” says Burnett. "Carol Ferris has to be there, even if only for a little bit. Abin Sur, of course. It wouldn’t be an origins story without him. Also, some various Guardians like Apa. The ones I was really glad I squeezed in though were Ch'p and Tomar-Re. You’ll have to see the rest.”

Another thing Burnett had a good time working on was a story set in outer space. After all, most of the direct-to-DVD DC Animated releases have been extremely earthbound.

“That didn’t occur to me until I finished the script,” says Burnett. “It really is sort of a new thing for the DVD world we created here,” says Burnett. “I worked on space stories as far back as Super Friends. I was the writer/producer on the Superman: The Animated Series stories, so I had a hand on all the space stories in there. You know, you had Darkseid’s world, Lobo and the Collector, and Krypton itself. It wasn’t uncommon for Superman to go to other planets and saving people there.

“What I really like about this one is as the film progresses, it gets darker and darker and darker. There are some moments when you think the heroes are really on the defensive. I won’t give too much away, but I think First Flight is one of the darkest works I’ve ever done. It’s great to see us really get into that area.”

“I find doing space stories liberating. What’s great about the Green Lantern stories are about 95% of them take place out in space. There’s a very quick recap of his origins and then it just takes off. As soon as we did, I found that very liberating. Actually, what’s fun is making space versions of everyday things. For instance, there is a running joke that Hal can’t get a good meal wherever he goes. That’s a lot of fun. Let’s just say the food is not good in space, whether you’re circling Earth or out there on Oa.”


“She’s great!” Burnett says about Montgomery. “It seems everything she puts her hands on winds up looking fantastic. Her sense of timing is also great. There are some reaction sequences in First Flight that have to be timed just right, scenes where characters have to be given a moment to think, then react and switch gears if they have to, and she got them down pat. That’s not easy to do. Acting in animation is an art, and Lauren and her group have done a wonderful job.”

Another interesting thing is the WB Animation crew has become much younger than its founding partners of Bruce Timm, Alan Burnett, Linda Steiner and company.

“That’s fine with me! It is!” Burnett exclaims. “I like having young talent around me. I thrive on that. I have a good job supervising these DVD scripts I’m working on. I also get to work with a lot of people with youthful energy and talent I simply have to admire. I can’t say what we are doing outside of what’s already announced, but I can say that we are getting ready to really take off. I know we do have a really big presentation planned for Public Enemies and Green Lantern at Comic Con. It will be a lot of fun.”

If these new projects are anything like First Flight, get ready to see the world of DC Animation really take off.

 

[dark_knight08]

:gl: New Pictures of Boodikka from Green Lantern: First Flight

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[terry78]

I'd hit it.

 

[phoenixflight]

Wow...

Can't wait!!!