Green Lantern 2

[greenlantern248]

I'd like to see the Green Lantern franchise rebooted thusly:

-Rename the series "Green Lantern Corps"
-Green Lantern (2011) provides a basic framework of events that happened
-Green Lantern Corps is a requel series
-Kronalax's attack was covered up by ARGUS as a terrorist attack in Coast City, hence the smoke
-New tone, aesthetic, mainly sticking to practical effects, and cast keep Sinestro though

Green Lantern Corps: Rebirth

-Film begins with Hal Jordan already serving as GL of Sector 2814
-Hal is often paired with Sinestro to work together on missions
-Hal becomes increasingly weary of Sinestro's brutal methods (capturing Atrocitus)
-Sinestro takes Hal to his "ordered" homeworld
-Hal reports him in to the Guardians, Sinestro is expelled from the Corps to Qward
-Guardians double the size of patrol in sectors to check the other GL, John is recruited
-Sinestro discovers that Krona was not Parallax, just infected by the yellow light
-Sinestro recovers his yellow ring and battles Hal and John on Oa
-Sinestro infects Hal with the true Parallax, and Hal goes berserk until he is focused by John and Parallax is imprisoned in the CPB
-Sinestro is defeated

Green Lantern Corps: Recharge

-More Earth based than predecessor, but with an interstellar conspiracy surrounding it.
-Time spent on Earth would focus on Hal and Carol, and the friendship between John and Guy
-Perhaps take down Black Hand?
-One red and blue cyborg that absorbs GL energy attacks Hal and John.
-Bulk of the film is Hal and John uncovering a conspiracy buried by Abin Sur and track down Atrocitus, imprisoned in the first film.
-Together they uncover the massacre of Sector 666
-The Manhunters are reactivated (hinted to be Sinestro) and attack the location of the Lantern of Sector 2814
-Unable to fight them alone, Hal and John's rings initiate the deputising protocol, John deputises Guy Gardener and Hal, Kyle Rayner (working at Ferris Air designing planes?)
-Still unable to successfully repel all Manhunters, the Guardians unleash Ion, intended for Hal, but instead takes Kyle, who destroys all the Manhunters.

Green Lantern Corps: Sinestro Corps War

-Exactly what it says on the tin, pretty much.

I really like this idea.

 

[MadVillainy]

If I had my way to make a GL Series

1. Green Lantern
-Hal's origin
-Basically a lot of what was done in the 2011 film just done better.
-Tone a little more serious
-Villain would be Krona

2. Green Lantern: Emerald Twilight, In Blackest Night, or Evil's Might Icant think of a good title)
-Spends a little more time in space/Oa, but Hal's relationships on Earth are still important
-At the start, Hal returns after months of being away from Earth
-John and Guy are both introduced this movie
-I also kinda like what they did with the animated series and I would have Hal be part of a spaceship crew, initally John and Guy are doing their regular jobs but wind up with Hal (maybe even Ia) on the spaceship
-Villain would be Sinestro and his arc would be his descent into/revalation of evil
-Hal would turn into Parallax
-The last shot/scene would be Ganthet showing up to Kyle Rayner and giving him the power ring

3. Green Lantern: Rebirth (again I cant think of a proper title)
-It'll be about new lantern Kyle, John, and Guy
-95% will take place in space
-Parallax/Hal would be the villain. Sinestro would also have some presence with hints of him gathering troops for his Sinestro Corps being mentioned throughout
-It'd basically be a chase film, with the 3 lanterns following and trying to stop Hal's destruction
-The film would end with Hal back to normal. However, he and the rest of the lanterns would be at the other side of the universe while Sinestro is about to make his attack
-Basically it'll be structured as the first part of a 2 part movie, similar to the last Harry Potter movies or Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions. "Rebirth" and the next movie should be filmed back to back and should be released within a year of each other

4. Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War
-Basically the comic book story
-Hal and the others have to race back to Earth to stop Parallax as well as recharge the GL power battery in order to get reenforcements to fight the Sinestro Corps
-There would be a huge city wide battle like in the comics.
-Hal's supporting cast would be brought back
-About 60/40 split between space and earth


Some other notes
-I would try and have Alan Scott as a supporting character in some fashion. He would have to be retooled, but I just really liked his inclusion in the first draft of the first film and i think his character opens up such wide possibilities
-My personal preference: make up over CGI
-I'd hint at Blue, Red, etc. Lantern but not include them outright because I think Green/Yellow would be enough for these 4 films
-No f***ing CGI costumes
-Give the alien lanterns some personality and backstory
-Something like this image has to be a poster for the final film:

 

[The Guard]

A heck of a lot more interesting than his comic book counterpart though

Not even close. Maybe more interesting than the boring versions of his comic book counterpart that showed up the last few years.

 

[spidergeek232]

I think with the Green Lantern costume, they should make it out of the same material they used for the Man Of Steel.

They could use CGI enhancements to make it more lively.

Or they could still use the CGI costume, but not make it so skin tight where you see his belly button and toes. I did like seeing the energy going through the muscle lines though.

 

[NewYorkSpider]

There is no way GL2 is happening. WB wants a DC Cinematic Universe starting with Man of Steel. Man of Steel is meant to showcase mankind's first contact with aliens but in Green Lantern, both Hal and Amanda Waller say that Abin Sur was mankind's first contact with aliens. Thus GL doesn't fit with MOS' universe regardless of when it takes place.

This. It's better to just start over and go with Man Of Steel as a starting point.

 

[StarLord]

I think with the Green Lantern costume, they should make it out of the same material they used for the Man Of Steel.

They should have had a real costume in the first place and not CGI'd the **** out of everything.

Even his mask was CGI!

 

[SlamAdams]

But the suit is technically a construct made by the ring. I liked that it looked like a construct.

 

[GREEN =w= DAY]

the suit should be a mix of the material used for Superman suit and whatever they used in Tron Legacy

in fact, it would be cool to have the Green Lantern suit be similar to the ones used in Tron Legacy that has some green lights to it

 

[StarLord]

But the suit is technically a construct made by the ring. I liked that it looked like a construct.

They could have done both. CGI first then Reynolds in action wearing a real costume.

 

[SlamAdams]

They could have done both. CGI first then Reynolds in action wearing a real costume.

Why? He already had the construct

 

[StarLord]

For the sake of actually wearing a real costume? I dunno really. I thought it looked like crap.

 

[SlamAdams]

Thought it looked good and appropriate. I think it would be pretty silly that everything the ring made was green and glowy except whatever leathery/rubbery/whatever texture suit he would wear.

 

[MadVillainy]

THey should definetly go with an actual costume next time.
Yeah it makes sense because it's a construct, it's a fine idea, but it just didnt work and IM sure ate up at least a little bit.
IF they really wanted a CGI costume they couldve done what the Iron Man movies do with Iron Man and War Machine. Some scenes the costumes are CGI in others theyre "real".

I actually like the costumes from GL: First FLight.

I think they should go with that

 

[SlamAdams]

That is the costume they used. It just wasn't material.

If the movie was actually good, I don't think this would even be discussed.

 

[The Guard]

I think the costume gets way too much flack. It pretty much looked like material, it just wasn't explained as such.

 

[Man of Steel]

THey should definetly go with an actual costume next time.
Yeah it makes sense because it's a construct, it's a fine idea, but it just didnt work and IM sure ate up at least a little bit.
IF they really wanted a CGI costume they couldve done what the Iron Man movies do with Iron Man and War Machine. Some scenes the costumes are CGI in others theyre "real".

I actually like the costumes from GL: First FLight.

I think they should go with that

So did I. I liked the gauntlets and black gloves. So much better than the white gloves for me.

 

[Zionite1]

Isnt it sad that GL has become so dependent on the GL corps that a lot of fans think it is impossible to tell a good GL story without the corps playing a huge role in the story-Its like saying you cant tell a good batman story without the Batfamily

 

[FeedOnATreeFrog]

Isnt it sad that GL has become so dependent on the GL corps that a lot of fans think it is impossible to tell a good GL story without the corps playing a huge role in the story-Its like saying you cant tell a good batman story without the Batfamily

I think they're talking from a marketing standpoint, to rebrand after GL2011's disaster.

 

[metaphysician]

Isnt it sad that GL has become so dependent on the GL corps that a lot of fans think it is impossible to tell a good GL story without the corps playing a huge role in the story-Its like saying you cant tell a good batman story without the Batfamily

The GL Corps was an intrinsic part of the mythos, and the big thing that made the character distinct, from the founding of the Silver Age on. Green Lantern without the Corps is kind of. . . not Green Lantern.

 

[Zionite1]

The GL Corps was an intrinsic part of the mythos, and the big thing that made the character distinct, from the founding of the Silver Age on. Green Lantern without the Corps is kind of. . . not Green Lantern.

U misunderstand.Yes the Gl corps are part of the mythos.But look at the silver age comics-they were mostly about Hal protecting his sector hardly were the corps needed-He didnt have to go on every adventure with them-not everything was a job for the entire corps.
I say this because Ive heard Fans say the more corps the better which I think is indicative of a flaw in the GL franchise that hinders it cinmetaically.

 

[Chris B]

My ideal GL franchise would be:

1st Film
- Hal Jordan would still be the main character.
- I'd retell his origin.
- Good deal of emphasis on the space opera nature of the mythos. Though Hal's Earth-bound supporting cast would still be vital.
- Use the New 52 design but with the black gloves with green wrists instead of the all white ones. I'd also have it be an actual suit with some CGI touch-ups added later on.
- I'd use the Manhunters as the villains with Hank Henshaw as their Grandmaster. Albeit he'd have to be reimagined abit in order for that to work.
- I'd waste no time setting up Sinestro as the Big Bad of the franchise. He'd still train Hal, but I would reveal by the end of the film that he's corrupt. Maybe even show that he is the one who installed Henshaw as the leader of the Manhunters. The film would end with his banishment to Qward.

2nd Film
- Adaption of the 'Sinestro Corps War' storyline.
- Would be time to bring in one of the other Earth GL's, but I would limit it to only one of them as I think it could become too convoluted to have them all. I'd probably pick John Stewart.
- I would try and incorporate Carol Ferris' transformation into Star Sapphire here.

3rd Film
- I'm thinking a loose adaption of 'Blackest Night' could work. I'd be wary of having this one be about another indiviudal tapping into the emotional spectrum and creating their own ring and corps as an antagonist, but I think this story would be sufficiently different.
- Introduce the Blue Lantern Corps
- Maybe introduce Guy Gardner. It's just that I have a hard time thinking of a reason of why there are so many GLs from Earth that wouldn't come across as contrived in a live-action movie.

 

[cloverfan98]

I really think the CGI hate is just people harping on something that's not really bad. I thought the CGI was fine. Did I think they were real aliens or constructs? No but I never do I thought they looked good and believable. The CGI suit was great idea I thought.

 

[MadVillainy]

My ideal GL franchise would be:

1st Film
- Hal Jordan would still be the main character.
- I'd retell his origin.
- Good deal of emphasis on the space opera nature of the mythos. Though Hal's Earth-bound supporting cast would still be vital.
- Use the New 52 design but with the black gloves with green wrists instead of the all white ones. I'd also have it be an actual suit with some CGI touch-ups added later on.
- I'd use the Manhunters as the villains with Hank Henshaw as their Grandmaster. Albeit he'd have to be reimagined abit in order for that to work.
- I'd waste no time setting up Sinestro as the Big Bad of the franchise. He'd still train Hal, but I would reveal by the end of the film that he's corrupt. Maybe even show that he is the one who installed Henshaw as the leader of the Manhunters. The film would end with his banishment to Qward.

2nd Film
- Adaption of the 'Sinestro Corps War' storyline.
- Would be time to bring in one of the other Earth GL's, but I would limit it to only one of them as I think it could become too convoluted to have them all. I'd probably pick John Stewart.
- I would try and incorporate Carol Ferris' transformation into Star Sapphire here.

3rd Film
- I'm thinking a loose adaption of 'Blackest Night' could work. I'd be wary of having this one be about another indiviudal tapping into the emotional spectrum and creating their own ring and corps as an antagonist, but I think this story would be sufficiently different.
- Introduce the Blue Lantern Corps
- Maybe introduce Guy Gardner. It's just that I have a hard time thinking of a reason of why there are so many GLs from Earth that wouldn't come across as contrived in a live-action movie.

I like some of your ideas. PArticularly in the 1st film. But I think it's better to have Sinestro Corps a little later.

I really think the CGI hate is just people harping on something that's not really bad. I thought the CGI was fine. Did I think they were real aliens or constructs? No but I never do I thought they looked good and believable. The CGI suit was great idea I thought.

Many thought the CGI was bad werent not harping on it a lot because we're out to get the film or something

 

[DarkSovereignty]

The cgi is bad, dude. Not all the time, grant you, but him flying for the first time, any close up on his face with that god awful mask, ect. Those were dreadful. And it's not just the fact that the cg was bad, normally I don't mind bad cg. It was the fact that the there was absolutely no need for there to be cgi in those instances. I'm of the school of thought that if you can easily accomplish something with practical effects, you use should use practical effects. I hate when cgi is used as a crutch, rather than trying to find other creative methods of conveying your vision. I still can't believe that GL cost so much money. It really is the cheapest looking $250 million movie I've ever seen.

 

[Doc Ock]

I didn't mind the CGI at first, but yeah....I don't think its very good. I love the use of practical effects and kinda wish GL had a actual suit instead of a CGI one.