Last edited by j9ac9k; 06-03-2020 at 05:44 AM.
Campbell should have been more focused on making sure he had a better script.
Maybe he did, but the morons in charge did whatever they liked. Reynolds, for as irritated as I am with his stupid antics that keep hurting this character all these years later, does have my sympathies when he says they started shooting the movie with no full script.
Last edited by Johnny; 06-03-2020 at 10:20 AM.
Ugh. Don’t go with Parallax right off the bat either. So many potential villains to start with, Parallax should have been the third movie culminating with the Sinestro War storyline.
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Atrocitus and the Red Lanterns would have a made decent starter villain. Or the Manhunters, especially if they went for a look like in Earth One.
I’m working on a bunch of scripts I’ve been actively trying to pitch to dc for their movies. The first movie would have Hector, Dr. Polaris, and the Manhunters. Second film would introduce the other Corps, with the Red being the main antagonists. We’d see Sinestro forming his corps after being disgraced at the end of the first film. Third would be the Sinestro Corps, with a Justice League film of Blackest Night.
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Atrocitous is the easy go to. You should not be doing the different colored Lanterns right off the start. Begin small: newly inducted Hal has to track down a criminal who has revelations about the failings of the Guardians (Atrocitous’s people were genocided by the Manhunters). He’s working along Sinestro his mentor who portrays authoritarian tendencies.
Second movies is Hal and the GLC vs. the Manhunters with Sinestro’s fall incorporated there too.
Last film is Sinestro Corps War with Hal being infected by Parallux and having to fight off two enemies on two fronts.
I think it was more about stopping the Robert Smigel, Jack Black film WB had actually already green lit, and were ready to go into production.
A comedy about a slacker with a cartoony imagination that gets the ring.
Pretty much the MASK but with a GL ring instead, a plot two stoners could come up with in 5 min.
Others with less power felt they needed (and tried) to push an alternative option out there quickly, so WB wouldn't steer their potential DCU into the comedy direction.
What we got was the weird, to many cooks pulling in different directions overblown mess.
Meanwhile yeah Marvel had already created their shared universe which was exploding on screen, while WB without a clue was still seeing most DC properties (other than Batman Superman) as comedies.
Higher ups could not let go of the idea that the main character had to be somewhat mocking, sarcastic, and self derisive of the idea of a Green Lantern.
Hence Reynolds was chosen as a middle ground.
Huge difference is the Marvel U was launched from the bottom up, creators first, who actually loved and were steeped in the material, and had a great vision for it, that vision is what drives the production.
It's how they got Jon Favreau and his vision of (then non "trending") Downey Jr. on Iron-Man.
WB makes their properties from the top down, a Producer completley disinterested in the material, but who has contacts, and just moves the available "pieces" into a slot; I have ...this property, + this directer (he doesn't care about the property but he's competent) + this "now trending" actor (doesn't mater if he's right for the part he's tending!), + this product placement contract (hot-wheels, yeah it's cars and this a space opera movie, $o what?), ...put it together that's a movie! Even if the pieces don't fit.
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Last edited by Güicho; 06-04-2020 at 09:38 AM.
Cool art by Liam Sharp from The Green Lantern Season Two #3 (June, 2020):