Green Lantern movie might reboot

[Guy Gardener]

Did you ever see Hulk vs Thor in the 80s?

"TIS TRULY AN AGE OF MIRACLES!!!! BOTH HOT AND COLD WATER FLOWS FROM THE WALL!!"

I mean it's difficult to figure out how to write THOR.

Is he a thug from the 10th century?

Or was he a highly educated scientist millions of years ago who's had perfect technology for so long that he's forgotten that it's not magic.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I think they leaned rather wisely toward the latter in the movie. They get points for that.

I got a laugh out of the South Park episode riffing on Thor, with Miles Standish drawing a map of the Universe for Natalie Portman, referencing one world labeled "Green Lantern" as "this planet nobody cares about."

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

Either they need to center it on Earth and tone down the sci-fi elements (ie the space stuff) or they need to set it in space and embrace the sci-fi stuff.

My thinking in regards to a Green Lantern movie was always that if they went the space opera route it would be better to approach it as a space opera about a corps of space cops and downplay the superhero elements. You know, redesign the GL costumes to be more like sci-fi cop uniforms than superhero onesies and have no masks and no secret identities.

As was debated in the New-52 thread, Hal's cosmic villains, especially Sinestro are infinitely more interesting than his Earth-based villains, Hector Hammond included, but especially "winners" such as Polaris, Sonar, Goldface, pre-Johns Black Hand (who's gimmick, aside from a "cosmic divining rod" that sucked up GL energy, was a penchant for cliches), etc.

For an earth-bound GL movie that takes the more standard superhero approach, a villain with a lot of promise as a screen foe is the Tatooed Man. He has a lot of cinematic potential in terms of his look and powers.

Another promising approach for an earth-bound GL movie is a very loose adaptation of Blackest Night: a superhero faces a villain with the power of necromancy who unleashes a zombie plague on the Earth, including resurrections of the superhero's deceased loved ones, allies, and nemeses. That would offer a hook beyond Green Lantern himself and give the public a twist on the superhero movie they haven't seen before.

 

[Guy Gardener]

If they had tapped Major Force... Would there have been a standing ovation when Blake was found folded like an accordion and stuffed into a fridge?