I grew up watching the JL cartoon so John Stewart is the GL that I know most about. I think he should be GL of the upcoming Justice League movie so there can be some diversity on the team.
Green Lantern movie might reboot
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I grew up watching the JL cartoon so John Stewart is the GL that I know most about. I think he should be GL of the upcoming Justice League movie so there can be some diversity on the team.
Reboot or no, I would hope that they could at least bring back Mark Strong as Sinestro. No one disputes that he played well in the first film?
Unlike Spider-Man, Green Lantern really needs a reboot. It's still a great premise, and this is a perfect opportunity for a superhero movie with a black character.
And of course Comedy Central's John Stewart will have a field day with it.
And of course Comedy Central's John Stewart will have a field day with it.
The final scene would seem to bear that out.
Sinestro puts on the yellow ring and assumes the uniform of the Sinestro Corps.
I've never understood why they went with that kind of a design for Parallax. I really think the comic book version is a lot more visually interesting, and intimidating.
They probably changed it to save money. As expensive as the film was, there were some sequences cut and changes made that would have otherwise made it even more expensive. Legion (later changed to Parallax) is described in the first draft of the screenplay as "the size of a whale with tentacles of an octopus and a shark's killer grin."
Really? Because I think he more resembles this guy:
I think something nebulous would be easier and cheaper to animate than a creature with a distinct form. But it may simply be the case that the change was a creative choice rather than one motivated by budget concerns given what Campbell said in that quote, or maybe it was a combination of the two.
So, they didn't have enough money in the budget to make Parallax look good, but they did have enough to paint a garish CGI monstrosity on Ryan Reynolds's body?
It is funny that Iron Man's CGI armors are so BADASS while Green Lantern's CGI suit looks so horrid. They really should have went with a non CGI green and black suit for GL. I think it would have looked much less ridiculous and reduced the stupidly high budget that the movie already had!
I think the way they did the costumes was a good idea. After all, a GL uniform is supposed to be a construct of ring energy, so it would be weird if it just looked like cloth or latex. The mask didn't really work for me, though.
I've never liked the mask. That is one of the reasons why I like John Stewart since he never has that thing on his face.
The costume looked fine to me - certainly a lot better than the initial publicity shots indicated - but the mask was a weak point. It looked a little off. The CGI costumes did help blend the actors in with the alien GLs who were rendered entirely via CG.
But an approach that may find broader favor with the public would be to use more practical costumes and more aliens played by actors in makeup for any potential reboot. That way you could create a universe that feels more tactile and more grounded rather than being awash in too much CGI.
But an approach that may find broader favor with the public would be to use more practical costumes and more aliens played by actors in makeup for any potential reboot. That way you could create a universe that feels more tactile and more grounded rather than being awash in too much CGI.
I don't like the mask, either. Even in the comics it always felt like it was just there because it was a comic book.I've never liked the mask. That is one of the reasons why I like John Stewart since he never has that thing on his face.
The Iron Man movies and Avengers did that with the IM armor. I loved how that was handled. The practical costume helped me believe that something like Tony's suit could exist in real life.
