You know you're living in an alternate universe when Aquaman and Cyborg are getting movies before Green Lantern. It seems like DC and Warner Bros are really hesitant on making another Green Lantern movie, so hesitant he wasn't even in the Justice League film. But why? Well, the answer may not surprise you.
The 2011 "Green Lantern" film is still a sensitive spot for a lot of DC Fans. For as much as flicks like "Jonah Hex" and "Catwoman" bombed, this film hurt the most and still hurts to this day. It's not even dumb funny it's just dumb. It's cliche, generic, it's CGI is atrocious, and it failed to capture the imagination of the comics. Because of this film the good ol' Emerald Knight has gotten a bad reputation among movie-goers, even Warner Bros studios identifies how much of a sore spot that film was. The only Green Lantern seen in "Justice League" was an unnamed alien killed off in a flashback, that's how much they want to cover up the character. Apparently we're getting "Lethal Weapon in space" with 2020's "Green Lantern Corps" with such names as Geoff Johns, Justin Rhodes, and David S. Goyer (fuck that guy) connected to it. If you ask me that's a bit of wait. We're supposedly getting an Aquaman, Shazam, Wonder Woman sequel, and Cyborg movie before this one and that seems unfair. I mean, it kinda makes sense to not include GL in "Justice League" just because his movie and his adventures are so far removed from what's going on on Earth. And if it's really going to be a space cop film than GOOD! If you've read my "Green Lantern" movie pitch you'll now that's exactly what I would do, but my concern is the same concern I have with every DC movie right now: how will Warner Bros fuck it up?
What will they change, who will they regrettably cast? You gotta remember the only two decent films released by Warner at this point are "Wonder Woman" and "Justice League" and that's only because one movie had a director with total control and the other only had Zack Snyder for half it's production. That automatically made the film better than "Man of Steel". Maybe I shouldn't worry. I mean, after what Martin Campbell did to the last GL movie I should count my blessings. Who knows? That movie being garbage might make this movie better by comparison. Or in two years we may find ourselves struggling to decide which film is worse.
But why do I are so much? This isn't Nightwing or Shazam, right? Well, while Green Lantern isn't my favorite series I still recognize how important of a series it is. As decades went by the sheer magnitude of their lore and importance to the DC cosmos grew, and they became vital to the universe. There was a story called "Blackest Night" where every DC Comic's character who was/or had been dead becomes a Black Lantern Zombie and attacks the living. That wasn't a Batman-triggered event or a Superman-triggered event, that was a Green Lantern-triggered event. If it weren't for that story than Flash might not of headlined the event "Flashpoint" and Aquaman might not of headlined "Throne of Atlantis". We all owe writer Geoff Johns a boat load of respect for pushing Green Lantern the way he did.
Six 3-dimensional people have been Earth's Green Lantern, there are at least five alien Green Lanterns who are interesting in their own right, and there are six other Lantern Corps made up of different colors and emotions. Granted, my one complaint with Green Lantern and maybe GL Fans is the obsession with categorizing and highlighting the different types of Lantern Corps, but I'll get to that some other time. Other than the other Corps, you have The Manhunters (soulless robots who were the police force of the galaxy before the GLC was founded), Evil Star (an alien scientist who's unique weapon can rival a Power Ring AND create minions), The Weaponers of Qward (who's material can actual destroy Power Rings) and Krona (one of The Guardians of The Universe who went rogue and became a mad scientist). The Lanterns can create ANYTHING you can imagine! Even Kryptonite and alien weapons and people and elements and stuff! There's so much to work with that a second attempt at a Green Lantern film, especially with Johns involved cannot be as bad as the first one. But, then again, even "Man of Steel" managed to make a mess out of gold.
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