The Official Green Lantern Rumors/Speculation Thread - Part 1

[Chip Chipperson]

Best part?

it’ll feature HAL!!!!!!! and John Stewart.

 

[Rorschach2012]

This news is fantastic

Geoff Johns’ GL run is probably my favorite run of all time

There are solitary stories that I like better but as a run, his is the best

Give that man the keys to this franchise and it will ****ing soar! This can be huge if they just give that man autonomy. He knows better than anyone about what to do for this franchise!

The visuals are so important though. We need a guy with lots of experience with visual effects.

I’m thinking McQuarrie and Tom Cruise for this one. But they really need to trust in Johns and not deviate from his script. He knows exactly what to do for this.

#InJohnsWeTrust

God get ****ing Tom Cruise in there and then get him to go bad, full on Collateral in the sequel. Daaaamn.

We got options up the ass for John too. So many great young black actors out right now. Michael B Jordan is available but idk he really made his mark as Kilmonger. Boyega? Ehhh.

I’m thinking Trevante Rhodes or John David Washington for John. Trevante should really get it though

Ok so what’re we thinking the plot should be? Maybe we just tackle Sinestro Corps War for the first movie. Just knock out the best Green Lantern villain for the first movie. Honestly Sinestro is perfectly poised to be the Loki of the DCEU. He is that guy for the DCEU. We just really need the perfect actor for Sinestro. Someone that can teeter between villainy and heroism. An antihero. I’m still thinking Aragorn himself, Viggo Mortensen. This mofo can do heroes (LOTR) and villains (Eastern Promises). He’s honestly the guy.

This totally needs to be a trilogy. That’s all we need. Think about the ground that was covered in the two Star Wars trilogies. We can get all the villains that we need in a trilogy. Imo the must have villains are: Sinestro, Star Sapphire, Atrocitus, Nekron, Larfleeze, Manhunters, Parallax/Hal, and Kanjar Ro. Anyone else would be extra.

Also **** Hector Hammond

 

[MbJ]

We got options up the ass for John too. So many great young black actors out right now. Michael B Jordan is available but idk he really made his mark as Kilmonger. Boyega? Ehhh.

I’m thinking Trevante Rhodes or John David Washington for John. Trevante should really get it though

Trevante is my choice as well.

 

[misslane38]

I'd be happy with that.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Well what do you know? We finally have some GLC news and it's good news. Hal and John are who I want to see and Geoff Johns has written some of my favorite GL stories. The question is, can he create that same kind of magic with a GL script? I know he gets a lot of blame for the Ryan Reynolds movie but I've heard differing stories about how involved he actually was on that project. Either way, I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt here because the Hal he writes in comic books wasn't much like Hal we got in that movie.

 

[flickchick85]

Hal, John and Jessica are the only Earth GL's I'm interested in, and I'm perfectly happy to wait for Jessica in a sequel, so a Hal/John movie sounds ideal to me.

 

[misslane38]

I'm oddly more bummed than I was before about this. Since the news about the movie being a Hal and John movie was out nearly two years ago with writers attached, I was thinking all this movie needed was to complete the script, which presumably should be close to done given it's been years, and get a director, which would then hopefully lead to some casting news.

Confirmation about something like Hal and John, which was never really in doubt, doesn't move anything forward for me, and Johns doing more writing isn't a good or bad thing in terms of refining the script, but I was hoping with writers previously working on it, that it would be further along and more ready for a director and definitive pre-production than it it is now. I feel mostly ambivalent about this news, then.

 

[MbJ]

Hal, John and Jessica are the only Earth GL's I'm interested in, and I'm perfectly happy to wait for Jessica in a sequel, so a Hal/John movie sounds ideal to me.

Gina Rodriguez's phone is right there, WB.

 

[KalvinEllis]

I'm oddly more bummed than I was before about this. Since the news about the movie being a Hal and John movie was out nearly two years ago with writers attached, I was thinking all this movie needed was to complete the script, which presumably should be close to done given it's been years, and get a director, which would then hopefully lead to some casting news.

Confirmation about something like Hal and John, which was never really in doubt, doesn't move anything forward for me, and Johns doing more writing isn't a good or bad thing in terms of refining the script, but I was hoping with writers previously working on it, that it would be further along and more ready for a director and definitive pre-production than it it is now. I feel mostly ambivalent about this news, then.

Same here. It's nothing new, the only difference is Goyer is seemingly not involved anymore. Which imo is a good thing.

 

[misslane38]

Same here. It's nothing new, the only difference is Goyer is seemingly not involved anymore. Which imo is a good thing.

I'm curious if the way it's been developed kind of mirrors how Wonder Woman was developed. A couple of people contributed to early versions of the script or to the story, and after that the director (Patty) and Johns refined the script even more. Patty said once on Reddit, "I think Zack mostly had an influence in getting things back in order to be a good origin story, and then Geoff and I worked super closely to work on the script." This article kind of breaks it down more. All of which is to say that I imagine that it's possible that some of what Goyer worked on could end up contributing to the film in some capacity, but hopefully whatever collaboration occurs is beneficial the way it was for WW.

 

[mclay18]

]. All of which is to say that I imagine that it's possible that some of what Goyer worked on could end up contributing to the film in some capacity, but hopefully whatever collaboration occurs is beneficial the way it was for WW.

I'm wondering if Johns is rewriting Goyer & Justin Rhodes' script or whether he's starting completely from scratch. He helped co-write the treatment with Goyer, so I imagine he's doing a page-one rewrite.

Johns' involvement with GLC via his producing banner gives me more confidence. I hope he's gunning for a director and star he can work with once the studio approves the new drafts.

 

[MbJ]

David Goyer was one of the things that immediately gave me pause about this project, so I'd be interested if it's a page one rewrite.

 

[misslane38]

I suppose it could be like The Dark Knight where Goyer got a "story by" credit, but actual screenplay credit would go to Johns. We have to wait and see.

 

[mclay18]

Johns helped write the initial GLC treatment with Goyer, so I imagine Goyer's credit will be just "story by" unless the WGA rules that Goyer get a screenplay credit too.

Maybe Johns is doing a script polish (i.e. removing Goyer's clunkers with more natural dialogue) and wants to get cracking on getting a director attached.

 

[flickchick85]

David Goyer was one of the things that immediately gave me pause about this project, so I'd be interested if it's a page one rewrite.

Ditto. The less Goyer the better, imo.

Gina Rodriguez's phone is right there, WB.

Seriously!

 

[Primal Slayer]

I rather have Kyle then Hal tbh. But I can deal.

I wouldnt mind having Jessica but I need her to go through her comic origins first and that'd probably require JL vs. CS with her coming in for a sequel.

 

[flickchick85]

I just can't imagine GL without Hal in some capacity. The best stories stem from him, imo.

 

[CaptainWagner]

I'm more than a bit underwhelmed that Hal and John will be the focus (Hopefully Jessica will show up before too long) And I continue to push Tom Cruise as my top pick for Hal. Joel McHale would also be fun, but I think they should go for a huge name like Cruise to mend the damage the last film did to Hal.

 

[Astro13Zombie]

I’ll never understand why people dislike Hal so much

 

[terry78]

I’ll never understand why people dislike Hal so much

He becomes as much of a joke as Aquaman used to be whenever he's in a JL book.

 

[MbJ]

He's written in a manner that becomes very easy to make him an obnoxious *****ebag if not handled carefully. Johns did a good job of avoiding this, but the animated films in particularly make him act like an annoying fratboy. When he first met Wonder Woman and said "Dibs!" I wanted him to get punched in the face. Actually, thankfully, it did happen, lol.

That's part of the reason I'm excited for the older take. A wiser more experienced Hal would be an interesting take.

 

[KalvinEllis]

I’ll never understand why people dislike Hal so much

I usually find a few reasons for that.

One is the fact that he's seen as the golden boy of the GL franchise. The guy DC always tends to push harder than any other Lantern who some fans think may "deserve" it more than him and the one DC always goes back to in case their new experiments don't work anymore or start to lose their luster.

Another is that he's presumably presented as being too perfect. Fighter pilot, good looking, chasing girls, head in the clouds figuratively and literally, always defying the odds no matter what, etc.

Some people think he's a Silver Age relic that should have no business being part of modern superhero storytelling. They often say the same about his buddy Barry Allen.

Others think it's some of the questionable writing over the years. The crap with Arisia or some portions of his friendship with Tom Kalmaku(such as the "Pieface" nonsense), the way the character was always made to look foolish against yellow comes to mind as well. Much like the rest of his peers, Hal wasn't spared from garbage writing but for some reason with him some of it tends to stick more.

Not being very creative with the constructs is another reason.


To me, he's just not an easy character to write. At least not always. This is the type of character that needs proper balance. If not, he either turns into a bland cardboard cutout or an irritating fratboy like the gif MbJ posted. But if you manage to strike that proper balance, you get yourself one hell of a hero. The Green Lantern animated series was the best example for that. That was the Hal Jordan we should always get everywhere he shows up. If Johns writes Hal in the GLC movie the way he did in Green Lantern: Rebirth rather than the New-52 Justice League, all will be well.

 

[terry78]

I do like how he and Batman just don't like each other due to them being polar opposites.

 

[BMCAABY]

One thing that kind of annoys me about Justice League is that its a team of all men and only one woman. Do you think the introduction of Jessica Cruz would allow there to be a diversity? Like Hal and John deal with other intergalactic and Jessica with Earth.

Does anyone think that might be a good idea? Like having her introduced but she becomes the Justice League's Green Lantern

 

[CaptainWagner]

I’ll never understand why people dislike Hal so much

For me, he's the most boring out of the Lanterns. He's pretty much your standard, generic Silver Age superhero. Not a ton of interesting character nuance compared to his fellow Lanterns.

And there's no way that they don't have plans to introduce Jessica. She's been highlighted in every DC medium including the new DCEU logo. I'm sure she'll show up eventually.