Green Lantern Movie 2010

4:03 pm EST February 25th, 2009 | Comic Books, Movies | 11 Comments

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Next year the green hits the screen. Please don’t suck!

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11 Responses to “Green Lantern Movie 2010”

  1. Quaker in a Basement says:
    February 25, 2009 at 5:03 pm

    It’s a movie about a guy who gets superpowers from a magic ring. How could it not suck?

  2. Jay Tea says:
    February 25, 2009 at 5:51 pm

    Sheesh, Quaker. The Alan Scott Green Lantern’s power ring was MAGICAL. The Hal Jordan Green Lantern’s power ring — and Hal is shown — is TECHNOLOGICAL.

    By the way, Oliver, ever read any of E. E. “Doc” Smith’s Lensman books? It’s pretty obvious that much of the Green Lantern Corps stuff it lifted straight from there. The comics people were honest about it, though — they named two of the members of the Corps “Arisia” and “Eddore,” which were the two planets at war in the Lensman books.

    J.

  3. Quaker in a Basement says:
    February 25, 2009 at 6:41 pm

    Magic. Technology.

    Meh.

  4. Parthenon says:
    February 25, 2009 at 6:55 pm

    Starting to hit bottom in the comic book source material, it seems.

  5. Pryme says:
    February 25, 2009 at 8:00 pm

    If there’s a way they can put the four big names (Jordan, Stewart, Rayner and Gardner) in this (and they do it if they actually give it some thought) this could be a pretty good flick.

    Oh, and technology *is* magic to some degree. If you showed a flashlight to a caveman, he would think that you stole something from the sun.

  6. justadood says:
    February 25, 2009 at 10:39 pm

    Clarke’s Law: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Magic”

    If they can keep the edge in a Jordan-centered story, and not slide into the Superman-Schmaltz, it definitely wouldn’t suck.

    But I hope Guy Gardner’s not in it…..never liked that character…

  7. Optimous Douche says:
    February 26, 2009 at 9:14 am

    If they let Geoff Johns pen the script it has a chance.

  8. zak822 says:
    February 26, 2009 at 9:56 am

    Great to see someone shout out about the Lensmen series. That’s one that begs to be animated.

    Epic space battles, monstrous alien aliens, the list could go on and on. Same with Jack Vance’s “The Dragon Masters”, with humans breeding dinosaur-like creatures for battle. The right animatin could really bring like to his Striding Horrors and Blue Murderers!

  9. A.R.Yngve says:
    February 26, 2009 at 10:00 am

    Scene #10:

    GREEN LANTERN (waking up): Ow, I hit my head again… hey, what’s this?

    Sees a BICYCLE SHOP across the street. Cut to Green Lantern walking out of the shop a minute later, wearing a BICYCLE HELMET on his head.

    GREEN LANTERN: I can’t believe I didn’t think of this before!

    ;-P

  10. Oliver Willis says:
    February 26, 2009 at 1:01 pm

    Nope, haven’t read any of that Lensman stuff. And GL is not the bottom of the comic barrel by a long shot. Now, that Youngblood movie…

  11. rjpb says:
    February 27, 2009 at 1:22 am

    Unless it has Solomon Grundy and the Harlequin in it – it will suck.