Official Green Lantern News & Discussion Thread - Part 2

[Dark Knight]

Dark Knight I don't even give a crap or care about X-men: First Class so get that crap out of here.

I haven't seen the footage for myself so I don't really trust the Twitters of DC employees and comic artists that are on the payroll. I was disappointed with the first trailer released.

I was at San Diego Comic Con and I saw the first footage they released and that was disappointing as well. I did video coverage of the post-panel press conference as well so don't get all sanctimonious and high and mighty with me.

Like I care if you did video coverage. I can try and brag to you about all the little benefits I had for 7 years when I lived in SD.....but I won't go there because it's irrelevent!

Get some!

 

[rashad]

Frosty from Collider

colliderfrosty Steven Weintraub
just got out of WB panel. recorded a video blog. HARRY POTTER footage was EPIC. Also, GREEN LANTERN was the big surprise!
http://***********/#!/colliderfrosty/status/53597189817114624

colliderfrosty Steven Weintraub
footage shown today will be at WonderCon tomorrow. Fans are going to be blown away. Way better than I expected it to be.
http://***********/#!/colliderfrosty/status/53597293571616768

 

[GlasgowBat]

"Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded".

Damn straight.

 

[Spideyfan93]

And some of you DOUBTED the film's potential...shame on you!

 

[Zacky]

hopefully we get some leaked footage soon.

 

[Dark_Lord]

hopefully we get some leaked footage soon.

Probably after they show the footage at WonderCon tomorrow.

 

[J.Howlett]

I've been saying since everyone started ripping the first trailer....trust in Martin Campbell.

Goldeneye, Casino Royale, and the Mask of Zorro.

Not even remotely surprised that the footage was aces.

'Nuff said.

 

[Sawyer]

The man's directed the two best Bond movies of the past 25 years.

 

[dnno1]

And some of you DOUBTED the film's potential...shame on you!

I don't think a lot of people really understand the potential that this franchise has. It is the next Star Wars.

 

[RoughNTumble]

I don't think a lot of people really understand the potential that this franchise has. It is the next Star Wars.

are you geoff johns

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I'm pretty sure he's just a guy with an opinion.

 

[dnno1]

I'm pretty sure he's just a guy with an opinion.

This.

 

[craigdbfan]

Here's the video Frosty, Peter, and Alex recorded after MovieCon.

Their thoughts about Green Lantern:

http://www.slashfilm.com/green-lantern-harry-potter-deathly-hallows-part-ii-footage-screened-cinemacon/

 

[RoughNTumble]

damn you SHH for cutting off the boards at the most excited green lantern time in months

I'm pretty sure he's just a guy with an opinion.

That's fine, I was just wondering if there is a reason besides pure zealotry that he defends everything about this movie, and provides damage control in response to any negative news or reactions.

 

[RoughNTumble]

@craigdbfan

HOLY COW, they really had strong reactions to it. that was way cooler than reading tweets.

I didn't even think the first trailer was THAT bad, but they were saying it was awful, and then they were saying it looks awesome now. t:

My confidence in this movie just zoomed right up there. Can't wait for the trailer.

 

[Assassin]

yea same video at collider

http://collider.com/cinemacon-footage-green-lantern-harry-potter-deathly-hallows-contagion/83546/

dude i'm sooo pumped for this after he described the Sinestro talking to the entire corps. ****kkkk i can't wait

 

[Willi Berg]

I'm glad that Frosty, Peter and Alex had such a great reaction to it and addressed the concerns they had before (e.g. the first trailer, the unfinished effects). Hopefully this positivity will carry on until the release of the movie where it also gets great word of mouth and reviews.

 

[BigThor]

I've always thought the first trailer was above average, I think alot of people were overreaction by saying stuff like "it looks like crap".

Here's my list of the best looking CBM's of 2011 so far

1) Thor
2) Cap
3) GL

Although I'm anticipating GL more than Cap because I've never really been a big fan of Cap.

 

[dark_b]

just because clips are good that doesnt mean that the whole movie will work together.

its nice to see that noone complains about the effects.

 

[Octoberist]

was it me, or did the board crashed for a while?

 

[Octoberist]

It seems like Hal's uniform will be amazing - I'm just wanting to hear more about the other CGI, namely the aliens and the greenscreen work (since I'm not a fan of greenscreen unless it's done really well.)

 

[Mr. Earle]

So the GL trailer isnt out yet right?

As for being the next Star Wars i think it could be, but meh... audiences today... i dont see it.

 

[The Sage]

One summer movie we were more excited about seeing footage from at CinemaCon than any other movie was Warner Bros' Green Lantern, directed by Martin Campbell. At Warner Bros.' The Big Picture 2011, the studio delivered by showing four clips from the movie and a new trailer.

The first clip begins with the title "Sector 2018" and we see Abin Sur using some fancy light-based controls on his ship and communicating with Mark Strong's Sinestro, who is telling him about a planet that's been destroyed by Parallax, but before getting too far into the conversation, Abin Sur is attacked by Parallax--we can't see it too clearly but it looks like a large yellow head with sharp teeth--and he gets seriously injured before flying away in his glass cylindrical spaceship.

The second clip has Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan finding Abin Sur's spaceship in the water and he runs out to try to save the being he sees in there. He wades out and pulls Abin Sur out of the ship and carries him to the beach, making a joke about having to get him to a hospital where they have purple blood. After giving Hal his ring and telling him to use it with the lantern in his spaceship, Abin Sur dies and his body transforms into some sort of grey substance.

The third clip has Hal with the lantern and ring back at his place. He places the lantern on a table and then slips on the ring, following the instructions to insert his hand and recite the oath, but the only oath he remembers is the Pledge of Allegiance, so he tries a variation on that, but the lantern rejects it, pushing him away with a green blast. Suddenly, Hal knows the oath that's required and he recites it as the ring glows and he's transported into the sky with a green hue surrounding him, out into space away from earth and the Milky Way and towards the planet OA. When he lands, he's in his full Green Lantern suit and mask and he tries to act cool like he belongs there by strutting around. He's called over by Tomar-Re, voiced by Geoffrey Rush, who is basically the OA welcome wagon, and Hal is surprised that he can understand the creature in front of him, and Tomar Re explains that the ring is translating and that it can also create a mask or not depending on whether Hal's identity needs to be kept secret.

The last clip has Sinestro addressing the massive Green Lantern Corps collected to warn them about Parallax having killed four of their members. This is a giant open space filled with Green Lanterns with a giant Green Lantern symbol behind Sinestro, and this is probably the scene that's going to have the biggest fanboys soiling their trousers because there are so many of the great Green Lanterns we've seen in the comics over the years and probably more than a few easter eggs. We don't know enough of their names by heart to expound at length about who we saw, but we did see a very familiar robotic GL and possibly even an Alpha Lantern in there. (Our colleague Silas Lesnick will likely be watching the same footage at WonderCon over the weekend and he might have some new insights to add to the above.)

Afterwards, they showed the new trailer, which is a lot more action-based, as well as showing quite a bit more of Peter Sarsgaard's Dr. Hector Hammond, but we haven't really seen a lot of Hal and Carol together, so hopefully Warner Bros. won't completely forego a lot of that important character stuff in the future. Since we know that the footage we saw wasn't completely finished, we'll reserve judgment on how it looked compared to our expectations, but we definitely think Reynolds was the right man for the job from what we saw.

http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/163601-cinemacon-weve-seen-green-lantern-footage

 

[craigdbfan]

It was down for a while.

 

[RoughNTumble]

RE: SHH exclusive interview with ryan reynolds

looks like his hair is getting thinner by the day. I wonder if he'll be one of those actors whose hairline freezes and stays where it is until they're 80, and you wonder if they got hairplugs, or whether he'll wear a wig for the sequel.

I reckon it'll be the former, like jack nicholson, michael keaton, kevin spacey, etc.