Green Lantern reboot ideas.

[Pondslider]

The biggest problems with Green Lantern were that Hal Jordan was completely unlikable and they tried to make it a Superman movie instead of embracing what makes Green Lantern good. Also lousy villains.

 

[Lantern Venom]

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. .

That's almost a universal complaint; I can't think of a single review or conversation I've read that wanted more of Earth as a backdrop.

The biggest problems with Green Lantern were that Hal Jordan was completely unlikable and they tried to make it a Superman movie instead of embracing what makes Green Lantern good. Also lousy villains.

It's sad that WB hijacked a great villain like Parallax. He could have been saved for a JLA sequel, after Hal has been established. Watching Hal go mad and absorb the CPB would be amazing in live-action.

 

[metaphysician]

Yeah, but Geoff Johns would have never allowed it.

Anyway, I'd say the CGI was part of the problem. Not the look, per se, but the fact that it ballooned the budget. Quality killed the movie, but the unnecessarily high budget didn't help.

 

[Loki882]

Really, I thought that they tried to make GL much more like Iron Man than Superman. They tried to turn Hal into the "cocky but lovable *****e" like Tony Stark. The problem is that Reynolds, who I do think is a good actor, cannot pull it off nearly as well as Robert Downey Jr can. And to be fair, the script didn't do him any favors either.

 

[cleverusername8]

I think it'd be better if the origin weren't told straight up at all.

They should start off with an established Hal Jordan Green Lantern, or at least start with his training. The origin points about Abin Sur and the ring choosing a human can be recounted verbally in a breadcrumb trail style throughout the story. Just showing the origin is a tired concept that isn't really necessary when it can be woven into dialogue and storytelling.

The first movie should follow Sinestro's fall from grace and have him go yellow before the credits roll instead of the way that the 2011 one did it. I don't think that the forming of the Sinestro Corps is an event that needs to be teased. I think it'd be more interesting to watch it develop rather than be teased about it until a big reveal in a sequel.

 

[Loki882]

No, the training phase and his gradual friendship with Sinestro are too potentially interesting to just skip over. It makes Sinestro's inevitable betrayal/fall all the more meaningful/tragic.

 

[Ultra Nolanite]

They should take notes from the Star Wars prequels with Sinestros fall. I don't just wanna see him fall I wanna see Hals rose to the best lantern in the corps and you new three movies for that IMO.

Movie 01:

Hal is recruted and trained by Sinestro who becomes his best friend in the corps. They should genuinely be friends and have this master apprentice relationship going on. At the end they should still be friends and trust each other completely. At the end they could hint at the power of fear like they did in the movie but Sinestro should not yet be tempted by it.

Movie 02

The duo goes adventuring throughout the galaxy. We see their awesome space buddycop adventures and Hal is more confident and skillful with his powers. Sinestro see great potential in him. Over the course of this movie we slowly see Sinestro starting to see the usefulness of fear but even a the end of this movie she should not yet go evil. Just a little bent like a cop thats willing to break some rules to just get the job done.

Movie 03

Hal is rising in the corps having saved the galaxy, (or just a *****load of spacepeople twice now. Sinestro and Hal kinda go their separate ways. Hal has proven he can fly solo and Sinestro is off looking in to the benefits of fearpower. He needs to genuinely believe that it can be used as a great advantage for the corps. Honestly I wouldn't turn him yellow until somewhere during the final act of this movie.

 

[Lantern Venom]

No, the training phase and his gradual friendship with Sinestro are too potentially interesting to just skip over. It makes Sinestro's inevitable betrayal/fall all the more meaningful/tragic.

Sinestro is one of the most complex characters in comics and his rivalry with Hal is one of the greatest in comics. I still think GL2 would have done well at the box office with Sinestro as the main villain.

 

[The.Brotherhood]

I WANT A BLACKEST NIGHT ADAPTATION!

And for all the people defending RR, yah he could still be somewhat a decent Hal but PLEASE GTFO of the GL Franchise, reboot this make Hal the GL that he is GOTG proved that setting up in space 99.9% of the movie can make it great.

Just make a GL movie focused on the GL lore.....take a huge space away from the Big 3.

Thank You.