^So you don't think people who hear about a new GL movie will recall that the last one was not good?
Do you think this is true for any other characters? That audiences would be interested in a Catwoman reboot? A the Last Airbender reboot? Marvel can't even get Incredible Hulk 2 going, and that was a pretty good film. You believe the natural reaction people have is: "Oh, yeah, that weak movie franchise?" What else would mention of Green Lantern possibly trigger in the non-comic fan? I can't think of anything else someone without an agenda would think, can you?
Plus they can beat Marvel to the punch by having a minority led superhero film first before Black Panther.
I thought about that. I don't think that'd be a good motivation, but it'd be a heckuva bonus. DC should lead in *something*.
Great poster !
You're turning me into a believer. Maybe Stewart as the main character, would work, with Hal and others showing up for cameos/supporting roles ?
Maybe Stewart has to rescue Jordan, who's fallen into Sinestro, or some other bad guy's clutches, while on a mission, or something like that.
Elba has got to headline some kind of superhero film soon, he's just magnificent. Who else could say " Today we are CANCELLING the apocalypse!" and have the audience cheer (most actors would inspire laughter).
Okay, I could see this, but I still reckon you need to throw in Hal, somewhere and definitely Guy, for comic relief.
I think vs Sinestro Corps with a captured Hal could be interesting too. I don't think you should put a bunch of other lanterns in the first film though. There are other comic relief characters that aren't asking to steal the spotlight from the main. Especially if they're going to be lanterns. It would be weird if the rings just happen to choose these four american guys who all know each other and live in the same city.
I'd love to live in a world where John Stewart is famous, but that simply isn't the case. DC has never shown much interest in letting the world at large know about any titular Lantern other than Hal Jordan. Even in the JL 'toon, John was just there without much commentary on how and why he got his ring.
A character's motivation is absolutely essential to selling him/her as a character. Superman has the destruction of his planet. Spider-man has the death of his uncle. What's John have? Almost nothing, just like Kyle and Guy. Poor John isn't even on the cover of the TPB with his own origin tale in it. If John is the GL in JLA, the GA sheeple will just look at him and go, "Huh?"
As you mentioned, John did very well in the ensemble JLA toon without a big origin, so there's no chance of the GA sheeple going huh when they didn't before. There's not a lot of "poor John" to be had.
On motivation, remember not every hero has family member death as the source of their superheroics. Flash, Wonder Woman, Hulk and Thor come to mind immediately. For John, his motivations are pretty prolifically explored in
Green Lantern: Mosaic. I haven't read it in a while, but I remember a quest for atonement/penance, which seems to be a very consistent theme for John Stewart in comics. There was some incredible philosophy in there too, self exploration and redefining himself - typical superhero stuff. There was a metaphor for gaining control/mastery of himself by mastering this mosaic environment, him being a mosaic of a man. For an origin film, I'd dumb it down a bit and start with the financial problems from unemployment from basically not knowing how to market himself (meta FTW!) and the guilty conscience from Marine service.
Now if DC isn't interested in doing something that has a lot of promise because they want to push Hal from a personal/political standpoint, that's another thing entirely.
That's exactly what concerns me. The JLA film shouldn't take the GL movie into account at all. Even had it been better, it's yesterday's news because it's not connected via a shared universe. Jordan is bigger than that one incarnation, so using him won't scare anyone away.
However, should WB decide that John be used, he should be given extra screen time for his origin and some other releases prior to the JLA movie. Introducing him as "Here's another Green Lantern because we're nervous about the other one" is a disservice to John, Hal, and the Green Lantern mythos as a whole.
At all? Like they can cast Ryan Reynolds and just put him in a different costume? They need to differentiate or GA sheeple will think they're connected, since, they're the same guy.
The goal for a reboot of a failed property should be to show very quickly and easily this is not like the old one. This is why such an endeavor is rarely taken up, as there are naturally a lot of parallels with reboots. Great when rebooting beloved properties, not so much otherwise. Fortunately for Green Lantern, there's a suuuper easy guaranteed way to do this.
Hal Jordan is not bigger than that incarnation to the tens of millions of people who only know him from that incarnation. How could he be? That's all they know.
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