Green Lantern reboot ideas.

[Airwings]

Have be film be about Kyle (because he's quite popular), and get Kevin Zegers for the role.

 

[Lantern Venom]

I think you continue to completely miss the point. The movie can say "Oan technology" however much it wants. If it comes off as "stuff happens, because magic", then its still a 'magic ring' narratively speaking: Its still basically a arbitrary plot device in ring form, lacking in a coherent and well-sold theme and purpose.

You can entirely do a Green Lantern movie without the 'magic ring' problem, *even if the ring actually can do anything*. You could use the ring as an allegory for how nothing can happen without the drive to see it happen. You could set the main theme as 'power and responsibility', with the plot explicitly grappling with what it means to be able to do anything. Hell, you could even simply pick your style to create the *illusion* that the ring has technological limits and rules, rather than being arbitrary space magic, even if it practically does whatever the plot demands.

Its just, the Green Lantern movie we actually got didn't *do* these things, or at least do them well enough to be worth mentioning.

It's not that I don't understand the point, I just don't agree with it. The GL movie had some valid faults, but the "magic ring" concept wasn't one of them. The Green Lantern mythos is a bit more challenging to understand than that of other comics, and it seems like many of the casual moviegoers couldn't wrap their minds around it.

Have be film be about Kyle (because he's quite popular), and get Kevin Zegers for the role.

I'd love that, but Kyle has the same problem as John in that he's been a non-entity outside of the comics since Rebirth. People like myself who were reading lots of comics in the '90s know him and New Guardians readers know him. Outside of those, Kyle doesn't have the name/facial recognition that Hal does.

 

[TommyJones1945]

^Yeah. Though Kyle on screen would be glorious. His constructs were always a marvel. You'd never know what he'd create next.

 

[Rorschach2012]

Hal is necessary for Kyle to be included the right way. I think the only realistic ideas for a solo film are Hal and John, but I wouldn't mind Kyle at all

 

[Batmannerism]

I was really disappointed by the GL film, mostly with Blake Lively's awful performance, and the pretty average story-telling.

Whatever they do, have to get Mark Strong back as Sinestro, really the only good thing in the first GL movie.

Don't redo the Hal Jordan origin, just pretend it never happened. Ackles would actually work in the role, but I reckon you need someone a little older.

Idris Elba would be a very cool John Stewart, he has a lot of gravitas, but if he and Hal worked together, you'd need a really strong actor as Hal, otherwise Hal would come off as a comedy sidekick, and that job goes to whoever plays Guy Gardener, okay, maybe Ackles for Guy Gardner (he's basically Dean Winchester with a power ring anyway)

What about this for a plot ?

Prologue: Hal is looking for Sinestro, who buggered off with the yellow lantern ring.
We open with him, having found Sinestro who's assembled a whole corps of scumbags with Yellow power rings, and is building some ultimate weapon, maybe the anti-monitor is involved.

Hal is going to take off and report to the Guardians, but gets taken out by a whole posse of Yellows, and captured.


Hal is off Earth, hasn't been seen for some time, so the guardians send Kilowog or Salak or maybe one of the GL hot chicks to Earth to select a new GL.

He /she/it gets Stewart (Elba) Gardner (Ackles) and Rayner (some young up and comer) together to contest for the ring. The mission, they all get rings and have to go find Hal Jordan, and whoever performs the best gets to stay GL of Earth.
Anyway, cut thru some tough but humourous training and then onto the mission.

But, then Sinestro and his posse show up and break a heap of prisoners out of the cells, and give them yellow rings. Massive fight on Oa, and eventually Yellows driven
away, but with a lot of GL's killed.

Earth GL's sneak off, against Guardian orders to stay and protect Oa, follow a trail to Qward, and find HJ imprisoned. They free him, and take a shot at whatever Doomsday weapon Sinestro is building.

Surrounded by the Yellows, things look really grim when
the rest of the corps arrive to take on the Yellows.

Epic fight that makes Avengers look pretty average.

Yellow Lanterns defeated, Sinestro imprisoned. But lots of GL's die so Stewart, Gardner and Rayner all stay GL's to replace the fallen.

roll credits, everyone cheers, billions roll in the bank.

Thank you WB and Christopher Nolan, can I have my writing credit please ?

 

[TommyJones1945]

Hal is necessary for Kyle to be included the right way. I think the only realistic ideas for a solo film are Hal and John, but I wouldn't mind Kyle at all

If you go by that, then every other earth lantern needs Hal to be put the "right" way.

 

[HighFivingMF]

If you go by that, then every other earth lantern needs Hal to be put the "right" way.

Any excuse for more Hal.

 

[TommyJones1945]

Any excuse for more Hal.

Not really. I'm just stating that if you go by the logic you need Hal for Kyle to be done "right", then every other earth lantern falls into that category as well.

 

[HighFivingMF]

Not really. I'm just stating that if you go by the logic you need Hal for Kyle to be done "right", then every other earth lantern falls into that category as well.

No, I know what you're saying. "Anything for more Hal" is what I'm saying. Because Hal Jordan is the ****ing man.

 

[Brawl]

From what I gather, WB gave DC some leeway on the creative side of things for Lantern and let them supervise the script/cast.

Just goes to show how inept the current management is. Though, to be fair, DC editorial has always been this way - proud to be anal retentive fanboys that revel in their exclusive comic book club.

Geoff Johns and co. have gotten so used to writing comics for 30/40 yr old fanboys that they've forgotten that the average moviegoer isn't going to care about his version of Lantern on the big screen. Why? It's heavily reliant on a larger knowledge of the DCU. Lantern should have started simple. Have Hal receive the ring and DON'T show any other Lanterns...at all for the first film. You have to establish the protagonist first before you de-unique him. The Lantern Corp SHOULD have been introduced in a potential second film that builds on a larger story. It's sad that a professional writer like Johns(a guy that's been handed the reins of the entire DCU) doesn't understand simple things like this. Even the original creators of Lantern knew that it was important to keep Hal unique early on. Another GL didn't appear in the Lantern comics until the sixth issue....200 pages into the run. The logical thing to do for a first outing was to have the hero learn how to use the powers on his own(the early Kyle Rayner stories did this quite well).

Fans like to blame WB for Lantern's failure but DC dropped the ball here. As a comic book writer, I like Johns. As DC's chief creative office...I'm scared ****less for DC's film division. Warner Bros probably thought the same thing which is why they've gone the Nolan/Goyer route for future DC films and why they're sticking with only Batman/Superman. This is why you don't let fanboys like Geoff Johns run your comic book company. They'll run it into the ground before it's too late to fix things.

All that doesn't make too much sense... That would be the same thing as saying "Hey let's not put in Asgard and the Fab 3 in because that would be all comic geeeky and the gen-movie goer would be put-off." The rich tapestry that you are able to pull from, that is Thor's mythology, is what makes the story believable and interesting. As demonstrated by the average movie goer, you make it good and the people will go to see it. :P

 

[Brawl]

I think David Ramsey would make a good Stewart.

 

[Dr. Evil]

I think David Ramsey would make a good Stewart.

Since there are no plans to make Arrow connect to the DCCU, they will go with a bigger name for John Stewart.

I think that if they are able to land Idris Elba or Chiwetel Ejiofor on a multi-film contract to play John Stewart, I would think that the multi-film contract would include their own solo project.

 

[FeedOnATreeFrog]

but but....teh connected universe?!

 

[Binker]

Here is my idea for GL reboot.

Use Sinestro Corps War like the original sequel was suppose to adapt, but combine that with a retold origin for Hal, and while you reintroduce him, you also introduce the other GLs like John, Guy, even Kyle (unless you save him for a later film). Sinestro attempts a coup against the Guardians of Oa with his army, and after sustaining heavy losses (including Abin Sur), the Guardians release the rings to find new recruits. On Earth, 3-4 of those rings recruit John Stewart, Guy Gardner, and Hal Jordan (and Kyle Rayner, unless he is saved for the next movie).

P.S. To explain its connection to the DCCU, two things; 1) at the end, when Hal returns home, he is asked about his thoughts on the "recent aliens", and while Hal is confused (thinking of the GLs), he is shown Superman and Zod's attack on Metropolis. Meaning this reboot is set before the events of MOS. And 2), the Guardians, after the 3-4 humans have been recruited, give their thoughts over possibly recruiting the "Last Bred Kryptonian" on Earth, but decide against it because of the "Book" indicting the Guardians have secrets of their own because they know of what will happen, past, present, and future. Something for future movies.

 

[FeedOnATreeFrog]

Richard Armitage for Sinestro?

Or Mads Mikkelsen.

 

[Derrick9592]

Armitage would make an interesting Sinestro actually

 

[FeedOnATreeFrog]

His voice reminds me of Strong's.

 

[Pondslider]

Just keep Mark Strong as Sinestro. He was perfect and wanted to keep playing the role. Even if they recast the rest of the roles from the first movie they should pull a Judi Dench as M and leave him there.

 

[Lord]

I would think that JL can use John Stewart and then if WB wants to do a spin-off it can be a Green Lantern Corps film, starring JS, Guy Gardner and possibly Killowag, it can expand upon other corps besides the Green Lanterns with a threat like Krona, the Manhunters or even Atrocitus, then the sequel could be Sinestro Corps War, as it was originally called the Empire Strikes Back of Geoff's GL saga.

Hal and Sinestro would be absent from the first film, but legendary figures, with Sinestro having left the corps and Hal possibly being busy somewhere else, explaining his absence from JL.

 

[TommyJones1945]

Just keep Mark Strong as Sinestro. He was perfect and wanted to keep playing the role. Even if they recast the rest of the roles from the first movie they should pull a Judi Dench as M and leave him there.

Seconded. Mark Strong as Sinestro was the only good thing to come out of the movie. If and when DC highlights the next GL or JL film, they should get him for the part. His portrayal was spot-on.

 

[metaphysician]

Seconded. Mark Strong as Sinestro was the only good thing to come out of the movie. If and when DC highlights the next GL or JL film, they should get him for the part. His portrayal was spot-on.

Thirded. Mark Strong does a great villain, and if you can keep him, you should.

( well, setting aside my assumption that a rebooted GL would be just as bad as the original, anyway )

 

[Batmannerism]

Thirded. Mark Strong does a great villain, and if you can keep him, you should.

( well, setting aside my assumption that a rebooted GL would be just as bad as the original, anyway )

Fourthed, or quartered ,or whatever, although technically I said it in a post before you guys, but who cares because you are DAMN RIGHT !

Mark Strong has the perfect look, voice and mannerism for Sinestro. Gotta get that guy back.

He was the best thing in GL, and probably the only reason to make another one. Sigh. In fact, the GL animated series was about 10x better than the film. And if animated characters are more sympathetic than live action ones, somebody's really ****ed up !

I blame **** casting (except Mark Strong of course, and MCD as Kilowog )

Hey, in the reboot, for Kilowog, it's got to be the Rock ! what do the rest of you think?

I think Jensen Ackles could pull of Hal Jordan, who's basically a cocky, stubborn, macho ********, but who does the right thing, no matter how tough it is, just like Dean Winchester.

To be honest, I reckon GL has to show up in a JL film before he flies solo, or even a Flash/ GL film. Really, those guys deserve their own comic, or show, whenever they team up, it's always good.


BTW hope a reboot isn't Rayner, I'd take Gardner or Stewart or even Ch'p before Rayner, there's no nice way to say it, but the guy's boring, and actually Ryan Reynolds Hal Jordan was way more Kyle Rayner.
Like I said before, maybe Hal, Guy, John and Rayner, but there's no way Rayner could carry a film by himself.

Just IMO folks, got to call it like I see it.

Let's hope it aint too long before GL flies once more.

 

[aNarcHy2day]

I may get some hate for this, but Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson should be considered for John Stewart if a future solo movie comes to pass.

 

[Rorschach2012]

I may get some hate for this, but Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson should be considered for John Stewart if a future solo movie comes to pass.

Agreed. This is an awesome idea.

I also really like Armitage for Sinestro.


But really Hal should be the GL for JL and solo movies. It'd be a shame to finally see a JL movie without the classic team.

 

[brainchild81]

You'd get over it. All that really matters is that the film is good and accepted by the GA. Hal's comic fans will always be able to get their Hal fix in the comics.

I may get some hate for this, but Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson should be considered for John Stewart if a future solo movie comes to pass.

I'd rather see the usual suspects(Idris, Ejofor, etc) but Rock could possibly pull it off. I'd like him to lose some muscle mass for the role tho