WB in negotiations with Martin Campbell for Green Lantern

[Supervisor 194]

As per www.superherohype.com :

I think Campbell is a solid choice--his character work in a Bond of all things shows he can handle subtlety as well as action. Good news, I think.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Damn you, I was just about to post a link to this story!

Could have done worse, could have done better. Campbell is a solid enough director with the right material - his pair of Bond movies, the first Zorro movie and the Edge of Darkness tv series (he's now doing a movie version with Mel Gibson). On the other hand, Vertical Limit, No Escape and other entries on his CV have been somewhat undistinguished.

If this is a good script, as with the good entries on his record, Campbell should make a decent enough movie, particularly if they get the right man to play the lead. Campbell does seem to have a knack of casting the right actor for the right part at the right time - Brosnsan, then Craig as 007, Banderas as Zorro.

Certainly, this sounds an awful lot better than a comedy version with Jack Black ...

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

Good news that there's forward momentum with the project. Campbell is certainly a surer bet than having Greg Berlanti direct (might have been great, a complete misfire, or anything in between - no way to tell). I would have preferred George Miller, but Campbell is a solid choice.

 

[Greg Cox]

I got no complaints here. Campbell successfully revitalized the Bond franchise--twice!--and did a great job with THE MASK OF ZORRO.

It sounds like GREEN LANTERN is in good hands.

 

[blockaderunner]

Okay. Here's the first thing that TPTB need to do when doing the GL movie. *ahem* TO HELL WITH KEEPING IT GROUNDED IN REALISM!!! The last thing I want to see is two hours of GL "crimefighting"! I don't care about the audience's sensibilities. What worked with the Dark Knight and Iron Man definitely won't work with Green Lantern. We are talking about a piece of alien technology that can produce whatever its owner imagines. Realism has already left the building. Don't just give me Abin Sur and a crashed ailen ship. Give me the Guardians, Oa, Killowog, the Great Battery, Sinestro, The Manhunters. Everything that makes Green Lantern an epic universe hopping, epic advernture. Everything that Tim Story's Fantastic Four should have been! Anybody who disagrees with me should stop sucking on Christopher Nolan's and Jon Favereau's respective junk!

 

[Admiral2]

Okay. Here's the first thing that TPTB need to do when doing the GL movie. *ahem* TO HELL WITH KEEPING IT GROUNDED IN REALISM!!! The last thing I want to see is two hours of GL "crimefighting"! I don't care about the audience's sensibilities. What worked with the Dark Knight and Iron Man definitely won't work with Green Lantern. We are talking about a piece of alien technology that can produce whatever its owner imagines. Realism has already left the building. Don't just give me Abin Sur and a crashed ailen ship. Give me the Guardians, Oa, Killowog, the Great Battery, Sinestro, The Manhunters. Everything that makes Green Lantern an epic universe hopping, epic advernture. Everything that Tim Story's Fantastic Four should have been! Anybody who disagrees with me should stop sucking on Christopher Nolan's and Jon Favereau's respective junk!

Um...I agree with you...

 

[Othello]

Okay. Here's the first thing that TPTB need to do when doing the GL movie. *ahem* TO HELL WITH KEEPING IT GROUNDED IN REALISM!!! The last thing I want to see is two hours of GL "crimefighting"! I don't care about the audience's sensibilities. What worked with the Dark Knight and Iron Man definitely won't work with Green Lantern. We are talking about a piece of alien technology that can produce whatever its owner imagines. Realism has already left the building. Don't just give me Abin Sur and a crashed ailen ship. Give me the Guardians, Oa, Killowog, the Great Battery, Sinestro, The Manhunters. Everything that makes Green Lantern an epic universe hopping, epic advernture. Everything that Tim Story's Fantastic Four should have been! Anybody who disagrees with me should stop sucking on Christopher Nolan's and Jon Favereau's respective junk!

What he said.......

 

[miraclefan]

Okay. Here's the first thing that TPTB need to do when doing the GL movie. *ahem* TO HELL WITH KEEPING IT GROUNDED IN REALISM!!! The last thing I want to see is two hours of GL "crimefighting"! I don't care about the audience's sensibilities. What worked with the Dark Knight and Iron Man definitely won't work with Green Lantern. We are talking about a piece of alien technology that can produce whatever its owner imagines. Realism has already left the building. Don't just give me Abin Sur and a crashed ailen ship. Give me the Guardians, Oa, Killowog, the Great Battery, Sinestro, The Manhunters. Everything that makes Green Lantern an epic universe hopping, epic advernture. Everything that Tim Story's Fantastic Four should have been! Anybody who disagrees with me should stop sucking on Christopher Nolan's and Jon Favereau's respective junk!

What he said.......

What

 

[miraclefan]

they said....

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

The last thing I want to see is two hours of GL "crimefighting"! I don't care about the audience's sensibilities. What worked with the Dark Knight and Iron Man definitely won't work with Green Lantern. We are talking about a piece of alien technology that can produce whatever its owner imagines. Realism has already left the building. Don't just give me Abin Sur and a crashed ailen ship. Give me the Guardians, Oa, Killowog, the Great Battery, Sinestro, The Manhunters. Everything that makes Green Lantern an epic universe hopping, epic advernture.

I agree, and from the script reports the space opera approach is indeed the direction they're taking.

 

[nx1701g]

I think that he's a good fit. Should be interesting.

 

[CaptainCanada]

It'd be fascinating to see a DC film that's not Superman or Batman get off the ground.

 

[Broccoli]

I thought DC canceled all their films a while back in order to come up with a plan of attack on what to do with them. Am I wrong on this?

 

[Norrin Radd]

They obviously drew their battle plans up quickly.

 

[Greg Cox]

It'd be fascinating to see a DC film that's not Superman or Batman get off the ground.

Rumor has it JONAH HEX starts filming in April.

 

[Praetor]

It'd be fascinating to see a DC film that's not Superman or Batman get off the ground.

Rumor has it JONAH HEX starts filming in April.

Now that one surprised me. GL not so much surprising.

 

[Broccoli]

They obviously drew their battle plans up quickly.

Apparently.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

For some reason when I saw that name I was mistaking it for Martin Lawrence, now that would have been some sparks flying around here.

 

[DBR]

For some reason when I saw that name I was mistaking it for Martin Lawrence, now that would have been some sparks flying around here.

Yep.

 

[JacksonArcher]

Campbell is a solid choice, however conventional. He has proven a track record of entertaining, capable films with GoldenEye, The Mask of Zorro and Casino Royale, one of my favorite James Bond entries. Let's hope if agreed to direct Campbell is in this for the long haul; he rejected an offer to direct Quantum of Solace and it took him seven years to decide to do The Legend of Zorro. The last thing we need is a series being forced to switch directors mid-franchise.