Official Green Lantern News & Discussion Thread - Part 3

[Marvin]

They've also been developing flash (and WW) for years as well. WB (this century) isn't fox, they try their best to protect their properties.

Would anyone attribute their aborted superman projects to any particular comic book writer? Or is it more likely that they just came to their senses with the growing competitive nature of the genre film market...

Is that why they sent Joss packing? Because of some comic book writer...well I guess johns doesn't writer Wondy so that's moot.

Deline(sp) seems like a brilliant producer and Campbell doesn't make bad films, I'd like to think they plus post nolan WB had something to do with a non jack black Green lantern.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

They've also been developing flash (and WW) for years as well. WB (this century) isn't fox, they try their best to protect their properties

Yeah, they clearly had their characters best interests in mind.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

I don't know how this got there but I'm leaving it.

 

[RoughNTumble]

I like to think WB learns from those experiences.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

No, I get it, I just don't know how it got into my post. I must have hit the multi-quote.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Oh, then I'm flattered you kept it in.

 

[Sawyer]

Warner Bros. has clearly only just recently started to take **** seriously.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Oh, then I'm flattered you kept it in.

I feel like it was the right choice.

 

[powerbomb1411]

That's like saying without Bay, Transformers wouldn't have been made

Not exactly, but a possibility with all the films in development hell.

Green Lantern on the other hand, I bet would have taken a lot longer. All they knew how to make was Superman vs Luthor and Bat Nipples.

Finally Iron Man became a hit, Blackest Night made the news and Harry Potter saw it's end. WB needed something and I'm still surprised it turned into Green Lantern.

If Johns went to Marvel and came up with a way to erase OMD, he'd be hailed as a saint.

I don't know about that. A lot of people feel it's a non issue now thanks to Slott. I've still year to read anything after that first half issue of BND and yet to buy anything after OMD.

They've also been developing flash (and WW) for years as well. WB (this century) isn't fox, they try their best to protect their properties.

No, their model of Superhero films suggest otherwise. Focusing on Superman & Batman, and allowing Cat Woman prove otherwise.

 

[solidsnake86]

Moreover, ever since johns showed up and put the blame on the giant yellow monster, my hopes of ever seeing Parallax Hal Jordan recognized have been dashed. Now that would have been the sequel to end all sequels.

This is one of those things that I think only comic book readers would care to see and something the general audience wouldnt care less for, IMO. When you build a movie franchise its based on your lead character, then to go and turn him into a villain in the sequel I think most people would have a collective WTF. In comic books it doesnt matter because things change all the time. In a way I think Sinestro more or less fills the role of "what happens when a green lantern goes rogue" and the way Johns has done it creates an infinitely more layered character than the one note parallax hal jordan.

Green lantern is already a tough sell, if they manage to pull it off it would be ashame to lose hal just so comic fans can get there fill of a controversial story that not many people liked to begin with. Then you would be faced with basically a sequel that turns into another origin story for Kyle which is pointless.

 

[Mr. Earle]

I think this thread has gotten just a bit off track; enough scrotum, balls, and syndrome talk.

Oh god damn it i missed the epic ****storm!

 

[Mr. Earle]

Mentors Sinestro, Tomar Re and Kilowog plus this:

What distinguishes Hal from the other Lanterns is that he has the ability to overcome fear, because he experiences it. They see that as a weakness, that he experiences fear. Overcoming fear is the very definition of courage. It's moving on, in spite of it not because of it. It's what makes him the greatest Green Lantern of them all. He harnesses that fear that he's feeling, and he converts it into pure will. It's exciting to play that, but it's also easier to tell that story when you have its opposite next to you. When you're standing next to Mark Strong as Sinestro, who feels no fear and has no fear. And in his performance, you feel no fear. You hear no fear. It makes my job easier to show that contrast.

made me feel all giddy inside!

 

[XxDelta09xX]

This is the biggest I can make it...

I love this shot of Hal!

 

[The Morningstar]

This is one of those things that I think only comic book readers would care to see and something the general audience wouldnt care less for, IMO. When you build a movie franchise its based on your lead character, then to go and turn him into a villain in the sequel I think most people would have a collective WTF. In comic books it doesnt matter because things change all the time. In a way I think Sinestro more or less fills the role of "what happens when a green lantern goes rogue" and the way Johns has done it creates an infinitely more layered character than the one note parallax hal jordan.

Green lantern is already a tough sell, if they manage to pull it off it would be ashame to lose hal just so comic fans can get there fill of a controversial story that not many people liked to begin with. Then you would be faced with basically a sequel that turns into another origin story for Kyle which is pointless.

I'm not so sure. If WB manage to make GL a succesful franchise and make a trilogy, I think showing the hero from the first film getting PTSD after a traumatic event and going rogue would be a bold and fresh thing to do, like it was originally in the comics.

It'd be a compelling story, if done right. It'd show that even superheroes have real human flaws.

Say, in the second film have the destruction of Coast City in the finale. Hal Jordan has just lost his home town and millions of people. You couldn't really blame him for cracking. And it's not as though him turning into Parallax was him going pure evil. He was just misguided, he used his supreme will power to think he could change what happened and bring Coast City and it's inhabitants back.

I think it'd be a really unique and compelling story for a superhero franchise.

 

[Silvermoth]

LOL, you think they're going to get a voice actress to dub over all of her lines? What on earth makes you think that would ever happen?

Not for Carol of couse but for one of the female Green Lanterns.

Gee, this thread got very bad very quickly. I haven't been here in a while but at least last time I was here people didn't try to diagnose each other with Asperger's Syndrome, a condition they obviously have no understanding of whatsoever.

 

[Marvin]

I'm not so sure. If WB manage to make GL a succesful franchise and make a trilogy, I think showing the hero from the first film getting PTSD after a traumatic event and going rogue would be a bold and fresh thing to do, like it was originally in the comics.

It'd be a compelling story, if done right. It'd show that even superheroes have real human flaws.

Say, in the second film have the destruction of Coast City in the finale. Hal Jordan has just lost his home town and millions of people. You couldn't really blame him for cracking. And it's not as though him turning into Parallax was him going pure evil. He was just misguided, he used his supreme will power to think he could change what happened and bring Coast City and it's inhabitants back.

I think it'd be a really unique and compelling story for a superhero franchise.

Finally.


In an age when superhero's are saturating the movie scape the last thing we need is another cookie cutter story line. Swinging for the fences, perhaps even as an end to the trilogy would be very original and compelling. And it would set up a legitimate reboot for a new ring bearer.

But what would be interesting would be the idea of him doing what he does after Sinestro does what he does. It would facillitate discussions about what the power of the rig does to men.

 

[Marvin]

Yeah, they clearly had their characters best interests in mind.

Considering that WB put the kibbosh on superman kinda proves my point.

Moreover, I'd like to see what the modern WB(the only one capable of making GL) would have to say about that Catwoman woman...oh yea Hathaway.

 

[The Sage]

I'm not so sure. If WB manage to make GL a succesful franchise and make a trilogy, I think showing the hero from the first film getting PTSD after a traumatic event and going rogue would be a bold and fresh thing to do, like it was originally in the comics.

It'd be a compelling story, if done right. It'd show that even superheroes have real human flaws.

Say, in the second film have the destruction of Coast City in the finale. Hal Jordan has just lost his home town and millions of people. You couldn't really blame him for cracking. And it's not as though him turning into Parallax was him going pure evil. He was just misguided, he used his supreme will power to think he could change what happened and bring Coast City and it's inhabitants back.

I think it'd be a really unique and compelling story for a superhero franchise.

Finally.


In an age when superhero's are saturating the movie scape the last thing we need is another cookie cutter story line. Swinging for the fences, perhaps even as an end to the trilogy would be very original and compelling. And it would set up a legitimate reboot for a new ring bearer.

But what would be interesting would be the idea of him doing what he does after Sinestro does what he does. It would facillitate discussions about what the power of the rig does to men.

I had always imagined them possibly franchising Green Lantern, or maybe a better term is establishing a legacy type of thing, something that could keep the series going pass the typical three film mark. Hal is the lead in the first three films, falls from grace and Kyle picks it up after him and keeps it going. Not sure if it could work but I'd imagine so.

Or maybe they should save the legacy stuff for Flash.

 

[The Morningstar]

Well i saw a recent interview with Reynolds where he hinted that if they make a third film, it'd be cool to see another Lantern as the lead.

 

[terry78]

Warner Bros. has clearly only just recently started to take **** seriously.

 

[The Morningstar]

That whole thing with Arisia was creepy as hell. It shouldn't be brought up.

 

[Mr. Earle]

Well i saw a recent interview with Reynolds where he hinted that if they make a third film, it'd be cool to see another Lantern as the lead.

 

[dnno1]

That whole thing with Arisia was creepy as hell. It shouldn't be brought up.

If they do something like that in a sequel beleve me, she will be an adult.

 

[The Morningstar]

I really, really, really hope so!

 

[dnno1]

GI joe is a similar and arguably bigger American brand than transformers. It was missing something. If Bay "the destroyer" made GI Joe, and sommers made Transformers, I'm sure it would be GI Joes success that we would be hating on and Transformers we wouldn't (ever) be talking about.

That film made enough to get a sequel and I think a lot of that had to do with the brand.