I'm sure that if they reboot they'll jettison most of the space stuff, the Corps and the aliens except for maybe a brief appearance in favor of focusing on a "relatable" Earth-bound setting and storyline.
Green Lantern movie might reboot
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I hope not!
The best part about the movie were the space scenes. All the Earth scenes in the movie were quite dull.
The adventures in space are what make GL different and unique from the other superheroes.
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If they do that, then they have completely missed everything that is cool about Green Lantern. On Earth, he's just another superhero among many. Bring in the Corps, though, and suddenly you have an entire universe worth of stories to tell in any location you want with any kind of alien that you want. The cosmic police force thing is the most important aspect. In fact, the best Green Lantern stories are really the team stories. Kilowog, Tomar Re, Salaak, Booikha, etc. are are huge fan favorites for a reason. I really think that any new Green Lantern movie should be more based on the Green Lantern Corps than on any one Green Lantern be it Hal, John, Guy, Kyle, whoever. Actually, the great thing about a team movie is that it would allow for more than one Lantern to take center stage. Do you think a character like Guy Gardner would ever get his own movie? Probably not. Team him up with Hal or John, along with some alien Lanterns like the ones mentioned above and it becomes a much bigger possibility.
Yeah, I think part of what made the two animated GL movies so good was that they embraced the fact that Hal was part of a Corps, and really spread the focus to include other members.
As for the creature effects, I think an approach like what Lucas did in the Star Wars prequels, with a combination of CGI and physical characters, would work best. Especially if they got someone like Rick Baker or the Jim Henson Creature Shop to do the physical creature effects.
As for the creature effects, I think an approach like what Lucas did in the Star Wars prequels, with a combination of CGI and physical characters, would work best. Especially if they got someone like Rick Baker or the Jim Henson Creature Shop to do the physical creature effects.
All the space and Corps stuff where the best bits. The 'relatable' Earth bits were dreadful. Everyone had daddy issues.
It was the same way with the Thor movie.
All the scenes on Asgard and all the scenes with Odin and Loki were the best parts of THAT movie while everything that took place on Earth weren't nearly as good. Take Asgard away and Thor is just a funny guy in a cape holding a big hammer.
Maybe so, but they'll be far more interested in fitting the film into a template that resembles other successful superhero movies. Even Thor spends most of its time - including the climactic <ahem> battle on Earth. The rule is, if you're gonna have alien villains bring them down here.
When studios don't achieve the success they want with a relatively faithful adaptation, they just about never look at it and say "oh, we took too many liberties, let's do it the way the hardcore fans think we should." There were Trek fans, for example, who really believed that if Star Trek: Enterprise was cancelled TPTB would return to a more traditional approach that respected more of the minutiae of continuity. Instead, Paramount just upended the apple cart and rebooted the franchise.
Wait... There was a Green Lantern movie?
Wait... There was a Green Lantern movie?
Yeah, you reviewed it and gave it a B-! Don't you remember?
http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?p=5044950#post5044950
Wait... There was a Green Lantern movie?
Yeah, you reviewed it and gave it a B-! Don't you remember?
http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?p=5044950#post5044950
Busted.
I liked Thor, and liked the Asgard stuff a lot, but no. The Earth stuff was actually quite good, especially the comedy. Between Kat Dennings and Thor drinking Selvig under a table, the Earth scenes were fun.
Wait... There was a Green Lantern movie?
Yeah, you reviewed it and gave it a B-! Don't you remember?
http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?p=5044950#post5044950
Oh, I remember it.
Note that I hardly gave it a glowing review and even said in it that the movie was fairly forgettable.
I thought the Earth scenes were okay. I really wished more of the movie took place on Asgard though.
Without the Earth scenes, they don't make the movie.
Studio decision-makers don't want different - they want what the other guy is having.
They took a risk making a superhero movie in a kind of Star Wars/Avatar vein. It didn't work out; no reason to go that direction again.
It was funny that when Jeff Robinov suggested that Warners needed "to find a way to better balance the action between Earth and outer space" in the next Green Lantern so many fans assumed this would mean more space-based stuff, when he was almost certainly saying the opposite.
No they didn't. The movie took place almost entirely on Earth. The Corps were in it for all of ten minutes. If you saw the trailers you saw the extent of Sinestro, Kilowog, and Tomar-Re's roles.
What are you arguing, that sequences almost entirely composed of CG imagery of alien worlds weren't compared (unfavorably, sadly) to Avatar, or that Robinov was saying that more space stuff was the way to go? He was saying the opposite.
Green Lantern was almost ideal, to me, in the emphasis it placed on the Corps and the whole GL mythos and back story - but there's absolutely no reason to expect to see that attempted again. It added a lot to the cost of the movie and people didn't go for it.
Yeah, except for all the training stuff. And the first flight stuff. And the Guardians. And the opening sequence of the movie where Parallax is freed. And the fight between the GLs and Parallax in space. And the other GLs showing up at the end to pull Hal out of the Sun. And...
Green Lantern was almost ideal, to me, in the emphasis it placed on the Corps and the whole GL mythos and back story - but there's absolutely no reason to expect to see that attempted again. It added a lot to the cost of the movie and people didn't go for it.
Yeah, except for all the training stuff. And the first flight stuff. And the Guardians. And the opening sequence of the movie where Parallax is freed. And the fight between the GLs and Parallax in space. And the other GLs showing up at the end to pull Hal out of the Sun. And...
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You and I are gonna have to agree to disagree here. The Green Lantern movie was a pile of shit, and a giant middle finger to every fan of the character or the mythos.
The things that you're naming off are all a tiny portion of the film. Most of it is Hal Jordan being an unsympathetic asshole, and whining about how he's not good enough. That's not Hal Jordan. That's not Hal at all. Hal Jordan is a guy who is made of arrogance and bravado. This guy has the phone number of every superheroine on the planet (and some not on the planet.) Humility is not in his dictionary. When the ring chose him, he didn't whine about. He didn't see it as a curse. It was the greatest thing ever, and he knew he deserved it.
Which doesn't make for much of a character arc. It's a more interesting story if the hero has to learn and grow, to prove himself to himself as well as others.
^Then they should have made him Kyle Rayner.
I've said before that Hal Jordan is an incredibly uninteresting character, and the real appeal of Green Lantern is the Corps. Look, I don't care so much that they changed the character. I do care that they changed him into a whiny douche that I just wanted to smack and tell him to get the hell over himself. You have to like your main character, otherwise the whole movie sinks.
I've said before that Hal Jordan is an incredibly uninteresting character, and the real appeal of Green Lantern is the Corps. Look, I don't care so much that they changed the character. I do care that they changed him into a whiny douche that I just wanted to smack and tell him to get the hell over himself. You have to like your main character, otherwise the whole movie sinks.
