Seriously, all this "let's get rid of Berlanti!" spiel comes from nowhere.
Did Berlanti seriously think people weren't going to discover he had only directed one comedy film in his entire career? Why wouldn't fans get nervous after hearing that?
This is GL here. Fans want the best movie possible. From director to cast to script. Berlanti, as talented as he is, just isn't what people think as the best director for the franchise.
Greg Berlanti's pitch is what got WB behind the whole GL project in the first place,
Then he should be raring to go for it getting made with someone else in the directors chair.
the writers he chose are the ones whose script is apparently so awesome,
Which is great. But fans aren't cautious about his writing abilities, it's his directing. Completely different skill sets.
and he's a GL fanboy to boot.
MSJ was a DD fan, too. He couldn't save it. It's not his fault, he just didn't have the proper skills for directing the project. Maybe once he's done more action or sci-fi films he'd make a great DD director but he wasn't then.
Berlanti's in the same situation.
I've said this before, but it bears repeating: before the Wachowskis made The Matrix, they made Bound ( a low budget non FX movie )
They created The Matrix. Berlanti didn't create GL. He's adapting it.
Expectations are higher for adaptions since they aren't original works.
before he made X-Men, Bryan Singer made The Usual Suspects and Apt Pupil....Why does he have to fail just because he's never made a big budget special effects movie before?
Fans thought the worst with Singer.
Singer had more directing experience before X-men with 4 movies. One of them was a cult classic.
It was still a a huge risk. It paying off doesn't mean it'll happen with Berlanti.
Berlanti has made only one movie that was nothing like GL in his Hollywood career. The rest of it was writing and producing. Honorable professions but that doesn't make him a great director it makes a great writer and producer.
For fans this is to much of a risk. If he fails in his directing capacity GL will join Catwoman in WB's comic franchise hell.
It's not like this is one of us making it,
So what? One of us making it doesn't mean it'll work out fine.
this is someone who has been in the industry for years,
So have many other talented people. Only unlike Berlanti they spent their time directing. He didn't.
I'm sure he's picked up a lot of things along the way about how to make big movies.
He may have picked up lots of stuff but that doesn't guarantee he can do it better then a sci-fi or action director whose been directing sci-fi or action for their entire career.
Now, if Berlanti himself decided he's rather focus on all his tv shows and bows out, fine. But if he's forced out due to fan pressure because the fanboy contingent wants some big action director, then that's lame in my book.
We want the best GL film possible. Having Berlanti as director isn't the best option. That's all. You do want the best GL film to be made, right?
Especially if the big name director they chose is someone who doesn't give a crap about GL and is doing it just for the money.
You don't know that would happen. Maybe they can get a director who is as passionate about GL as he is.
Greg Berlanti clearly has a vision and a direction for this whole Green Lantern mythology, and he should be given a chance to see it through.
Berlanti's vision can still happen and he can still see it through if he isn't the director. We don't want him kicked off the movie. He just needs to understand he doesn't need to do everything for the GL movie to be good. Not when one of his tasks can be done better by someone else more qualified.
