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Have not seen it yet, but I think they went with someone as young as Lively more for the sequels. She will be perfect for #2 or #3 if she has to wear the Violet suit in 3 or 5 years.
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GREEN LANTERN Earns $3.4 Million in Midnight Screenings
There is a reason the sequel has already been greenlit.
Robert Smigel Details ‘Green Lantern’ Movie He Wrote For Jack Black
Lots more at the link, if you're curious.Though Green Lantern is a serious character in the comic books, Smigel thought it lent itself perfectly to comedy:
What appealed to me about it on a comedic level was that, in order to be a superhero, this requires no physical skill or talent. All it requires is owning this ring. Automatically, that’s a comedic premise.
So, the film had Jack Black playing a reality TV star whom the ring mistakenly chooses as the new Lantern. But for that premise to work, everything else about Green Lantern – save for Black’s character – had to be steeped in the comic book lore:
I did a lot of research. You know, I only knew Green Lantern on a very superficial level and I had seen a few cartoons as a kid and I was aware of it. I never had read the comics, so I immersed myself in Green Lantern comics from every era—partly because I wanted to take the world seriously. It wouldn’t be funny unless the actual legend and the world of Green Lantern were accurate.
He even based the whole arc of the story on a specific arc of Lantern comic books:
My movie is an adaptation of the first chapter of a story called “Emerald Dawn” from the 80s. I mean, it’s a very loose adaptation, but a lot of the villain elements I took from it: in my version, Sinestro is a major villain, and this was at the time of all of the controversy of the Patriot Act and the way we were responding to terrorism in the mid-zeros.
The Green Lantern Guru | Fast Company
There are definitely plans for more Green Lantern films. I would hope it’s more than a trilogy. I think Green Lantern has a lot of movies in it, a lot of stories to tell. The Flash, which I wrote the treatment for, is also in development, but I can’t say much more than that.
Mark Millar Weighs In On Green Lantern
“I hereby declare Green Lantern the worst superhero movie ever made. And yes I count The Phantom and The Shadow as superhero movies.
Green Lantern was the cheapest-looking 300 million dollar movie I’ve ever seen. Why didn’t they give that money (to) Africa?
It had a couple of good moments, all coming from Mark Strong. But oh man.
It was just such an ODD movie. Like it travelled here from a parallel universe where they made a Green Lantern movie in 1995.
But it was only eight quid and thus worth it. And I know I’ll go and see it again ”
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