Green Lantern reboot ideas.

[Lantern Venom]

3.Powers:Constructs are lame.There I said it.Limit Gls powers to energy,freezing beams,forcefields,flight.
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No way. Constructs aren't just about weapons. Soranik Natu regularly uses her ring to create medical tools that she uses in the field. Abin Sur used his ring to re-create his severed hand during Flashpoint. I've seen GL's create spaceships, cars, handcuffs, buildings, and binoculars. The JL and possible GL/Flash movie need to delve deeply into the connection between a power ring and the imagination of the ring bearer.

 

[DrCosmic]

I think when the constructs are used as tools it can be really cool, but a lot of the cartoony attacks or flamboyant distractions from just using telekinesis are just that, and that's usually how the rings are used. It was cool for Kyle to have that imagination focus, because the implicit understanding is that he was a cartoonist, but when it became standard for every GL member to pull out a helicopter or a pack of lions there's a bit of hokiness in there. The examples you gave are cool and respectable particularly because they have nothing to do with imagination, but resourcefulness. That's a lot different from catching someone in Green Lantern water. Or making an intricate machine or entity to do something that could just as easily have been done with a forceblast or some TK.

 

[DOBSON10]

Ditching the Green Lantern Oath's is a better idea than ditching the constructs. They are ridiculously cheesy IMO.

 

[The Guard]

I will never understand Green Lantern fans who have issues with cheesy constructs as a concept.

Never.

Thanks, Justice League animated John Stewart.

 

[Silvermoth]

I reckon the oath and the constructs can work if they're done right. It's up to the filmmaker/actors to do that right though. Making a green lantern film without either of those things would be about as successful as the last green lantern film

 

[Harry Dresden]

Constructs are lame?

Lol.

Go read some Green Lantern comics and get back to me.

 

[Loki882]

Yeah, I didn't hear anyone complain that there were constructs in the movie. What a lot of people DID complain about was that the constructs weren't creative enough.

 

[Zionite1]

I think when the constructs are used as tools it can be really cool, but a lot of the cartoony attacks or flamboyant distractions from just using telekinesis are just that, and that's usually how the rings are used. It was cool for Kyle to have that imagination focus, because the implicit understanding is that he was a cartoonist, but when it became standard for every GL member to pull out a helicopter or a pack of lions there's a bit of hokiness in there. The examples you gave are cool and respectable particularly because they have nothing to do with imagination, but resourcefulness. That's a lot different from catching someone in Green Lantern water. Or making an intricate machine or entity to do something that could just as easily have been done with a forceblast or some TK.

Exactly.As tools the constructs can be good.But as weapons-they are quite stupid looking and quite uneccesssary-everything battlewise can be done with lasers and forcefields
.I wasnt suprised at all battle constructs looked lame in live action-they always did to me.

 

[Lantern Venom]

I will never understand Green Lantern fans who have issues with cheesy constructs as a concept.

Never.

Thanks, Justice League animated John Stewart.

Constructs are essential to Green Lantern. Seeing the creative ways GL's solve problems is one of the main reasons to read GL. One of the aspects of why comic John is far superior to his JL 'toon counterpart is that JL John rarely made anything creative. He was the GL who used the most powerful weapon in the universe to make bubbles and energy blasts. Wow.

Constructs are lame?

Lol.

Go read some Green Lantern comics and get back to me.

Yeah, I didn't hear anyone complain that there were constructs in the movie. What a lot of people DID complain about was that the constructs weren't creative enough.

I thought the constructs looked awesome, particularly the aspect of them being darker than the glow of the ring to give the viewer the impression of solidity. Although you're right about the intricacy only scratching the surface of the ring's abilities in the movie.

One of my favorite New 52 constructs was made by John when some corrupt politicians wanted to cut corners to save money on a building. John created a skyscraper, confined the politicians in an elevator, sent them rocketing to the ground floor and stopped them just shy of hitting to remind them what it's like to have one's life in the hands of architecture. That's what the ring should be on screen: not just a weapon, but an extension of the wielder's mind.

 

[Pondslider]

Thanks for the response
1.Yeah.Good point.Make Hal based in a space station-A big one though that can fully stand as Hals"city".Bye-Bye Earth scenes.Hal as a test pilot would still work for a space station.I just like Space races

I like the idea of Ferris Air having a space station. It could become the Watchtower.

 

[Silvermoth]

That's actually a brilliant idea

 

[Zionite1]

I like the idea of Ferris Air having a space station. It could become the Watchtower.

good idea

 

[adzyps3]

Green Lantern 1st movie

Hal and sinestro have to defeat the manhunters and find out who has reactivated them...probably sinestro to bring more fear to the universe. also sinestro creates the sinestro core at the end.

I imagine this movie to have that phantom menace kind of feel.....and by that i mean how Hal and sinestro having that master apprentice feel like qui gon jin and obi wan but more balanced.

Green lantern 2nd movie

Hal, kilawog and john stewart try and bring justice to the warworld but they get captured and must survive its gladiator like setting and eventually bring down Mongul and free the slaves that he has captured from across the universe.

This would be a great oppertunity to show the vast diversity of the DC universe and show plenty of different races like the thanagarians, tamaraneans and so on

Green Lantern 3rd movie

I'm not sure if this would be the time to bring i senestro or a greater threat like antimonitor and force the spectrum to come together and save the universe.

also characters like adam strange and even superman could make an appearance.

 

[adzyps3]

did hawkgirl and john stewart have a romantic relationship in the comics or was that in the series only?

because hawkgirl or hawkman would fit in on warworld fighting for survival.

 

[DocHolliday]

A Green Lantern movie was already made way before the 2011 travesty.

And it was awesome.

Pretty much just remake this, but change the starfighter to a power ring and the main character to Hal Jordan and you've got an amazing Green Lantern movie. Or make a live action version of First Flight.

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Really? We're aiming for Last Starfighter quality with the DC superhero flicks now? I have nothing against that film(own it in all versions - VHS, dvd,blu-ray) but it's nothing but 80s cheese. I put it on every once in a while for nostalgia but it's not a very good movie. Average at best, even by 80s standards.

 

[metaphysician]

Hey, its still a big step up from the Ryan Reynolds movie.

 

[dude stannis]

You know what the best Green Lantern live action movie is? Oblivion.

I'd love to see Hal as the sole human exploring a planet of ancient ruins, maybe alongside Jade, finding scavengers who are hiding from something evil.

 

[Rorschach2012]

nah gotg is the best GL movie. I wasn't blown away by Oblivion, the visuals were great though

 

[Sexy Magician]

Its a shame the first one was pretty bad, chances are in a reboot they won't feature Hal Jordan as to not appear like they are repeating themselves. Maybe a reboot should feature John Stewart obtaining the ring and feature Hal as a cameo, like he is off guarding another sector.

 

[Lantern Venom]

Its a shame the first one was pretty bad, chances are in a reboot they won't feature Hal Jordan as to not appear like they are repeating themselves. Maybe a reboot should feature John Stewart obtaining the ring and feature Hal as a cameo, like he is off guarding another sector.

There were some ideas with John in the GL movie that ultimately got cut. Whether or not they actually cast someone is still conjecture, although Nick Jones was rumored.

My concern with another Lantern other than Hal headlining the movie is that his origin would have to be re-written. All of the other titular Lanterns have origins that go through Hal, and the idea of WB re-writing John's origin sounds like disaster waiting to happen.

I really wish WB would put out an animated movie showing the other Lanterns (I wouldn't even be opposed to Baz) because outside of Guy's two appearances on GL:TAS, the others have been silent outside of print for almost a decade. I wouldn't mind a JSA movie with Alan Scott, either.

 

[DA_Champion]

My view: don't bother rebooting Green Lantern. They made a bad film, now they should move on and try something else. At best, make a GL series on the CW, and make a GL movie in 10 years.

 

[The Endless]

Yeah, I didn't hear anyone complain that there were constructs in the movie. What a lot of people DID complain about was that the constructs weren't creative enough.

That's an inherent thing with Jordan though. All he ever creates is giant fists or jets or cars.

 

[DA_Champion]

There were some ideas with John in the GL movie that ultimately got cut. Whether or not they actually cast someone is still conjecture, although Nick Jones was rumored.

My concern with another Lantern other than Hal headlining the movie is that his origin would have to be re-written. All of the other titular Lanterns have origins that go through Hal, and the idea of WB re-writing John's origin sounds like disaster waiting to happen.

I really wish WB would put out an animated movie showing the other Lanterns (I wouldn't even be opposed to Baz) because outside of Guy's two appearances on GL:TAS, the others have been silent outside of print for almost a decade. I wouldn't mind a JSA movie with Alan Scott, either.

Alan Scott could work as a 1970s period piece.

 

[Lantern Venom]

That's an inherent thing with Jordan though. All he ever creates is giant fists or jets or cars.

His constructs aren't as creative as Kyle's, but Hal has made much more than that. Case in point:

http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/13/134509/2819305-green_lantern_and_superman.jpg

Alan Scott could work as a 1970s period piece.

That would be cool, or they could do a WW2 piece with some of the Golden Age heroes. I'd be happy if the JL movie just had a scene or two like Watchmen did with some of their "original" members.

 

[guitarsingerguy]

The problems with the GL film didn't have anything to do with the constructs. The pacing was all over the place. Everyone I know wanted more time on Oa and in space. Hell, he trained for all of 10 minutes, and he supposedly became this adept user in that amount of time? They needed to delve into those aspects far more: his relationships with Sinestro, Kilowog, etc were glazed over. The dialog didn't help either. So many of those lines were cheesy and delivered with no feeling. The oath was probably the one thing I expected to sound horrible that was surprisingly tolerable. Lastly, even though I didn't mind the costume, the mask and eyes were absolutely horrible. There was no depth or weight to it. I understand it's supposed to essentially be a second skin, but there needed to be a hard outline to it or something. Lastly what they did with his eyes just looked...strange. I don't know how to explain it.