The Official Marc Guggenheim & Script Discussion Thread (Spoilers)

[SuperMonkey]

Could someone send me the script?

-- FunBob

 

[Webhead2006]

we cant, its against the shh rules right now. You could probably find it by other means. Though its only the first draft of script and it has gone through many rewrites.

 

[SpiderByte]

edit

 

[SpiderByte]

Google it, its online.

 

[SuperMonkey]

Unable to find it. If someone could e-mail me the link it would be much appreciated.

[email protected]

-- FunBob

 

[SpiderByte]

I'm right on it.

 

[SuperMonkey]

Thank ya very much, Darth!

-- FunBob

 

[S.A.A.D.]

There’s something I’d really like to see in the movie, referring to Hal’s personality:

Spoiler

Instead of starting his training in the Script’s ending, Hal actually completes it (because he’s obligated to) during the movie (there would be a montage of Hal, along with other cadets, like C’hipp and Arisia, training with Kilowog in Oa. We see how he starts to like that, how he creates friendships with other cadets and etc). Four months later, Hal completes his training and goes back home, on Earth, to continue with his life. When he arrives, he finally realizes that he’s gone for four months and hasn’t noticed anyone. Tom is angry with him, and doesn’t return his calls. In his apartment, he finds a communicate from Ferris Aircraft warning him that he’s suspended for a year because he haven’t showed up at work. Hal angrily goes to Carol’s home to confront his boss, Carl, about the suspension. Carol receives him and tells him to come back later, but he refuses. He’s angry. Really angry. He slams the office’s door and… finds Carl in a coma. He’s sick and doesn’t have much time. We have a movie version of that scene from “Secret Origins” where he and Carol talk, with she explaining that Carl got sick four years before, and, after being such a spoiled daughter, Carol refused to let her dad lost the one thing he fought for his entire life, so, she pretended she was following his orders when she was, actually, running Ferris Aircraft all by herself, making falsifications of her father’s signature to convince everyone he was still running, and such. Hal realizes how much he has failed with his family (Jack and Jim). He heads to Jim’s house, and Jack answers the door. The very first thing he does is punch Hal, giving him a nose bleeding. He says they we’re desperately looking for him since he didn’t gave any signs of life in a week. That they paid his bills, his rent, and convinced Carol to only suspend him. Hal tries to explain himself, but Jack just punches him again. Jim shows up and stops the fight, but pushes Hal against his car and says that he has given them the worst months of their lives. That Hal’s nephews asked for him everyday. That they tough he was dead and no one could say otherwise. That he made them go trough hell. Jim says that they’re done trying to make Hal a part of the family. That he’s no longer his brother and can live his own life, as he always wanted to. They go back inside, leaving Hal alone in the rain. There, Hal has confirmation of how much of an egoist person he has been. How much he let everyone who cared about him down. That’s when he has a change of heart. When he realizes that the ring was given to him for a reason, and decides to no longer run away from it. He’s no longer just Hal Jordan. Now, he’s the Green Lantern, and he’ll make up to the legacy Abin Sur trusted upon him. The following scene would be a version of an existing scene, where Hal becomes GL and starts flying around the world preventing crimes, and being acclaimed as Earth’s first super-hero. (No Clark Kent cameo in this version).

I know it’s virtually impossible, but I think it could be a powerful sequence of the movie. What do you think?

My honest opinion? It sounds too sentimental and serious,and weird to be the final moments leading up to the end of the movie.