God help WB if the GL is John Stewart.

Marvel has had a successful 3rd tier character for years of Hercules, and as awful and ditzy as it was there were years of commercial success with the Zena warrior princess TV show, which is pretty much along the lines of the more recent interpretations of WW.

I’m on crack? I find that character, basically an Artemis or, literally, Diana, more interesting and worthy of exploration than a guy who has a magic ring that makes green stuff.

It strikes me as pretty cynical, anyway. “We can’t write well for women, so we’ll just reduce the importance of our main female character.”

GL was really well done in New Frontier, though.

Which is not to say I can think of any examples of better female characters, but that’s only a further indictment of comic writers’ inability to create (or comic fans’ inability to appreciate) a character that’s compelling in its own right, who also happens to be female.

One hurdle to a successful GL movie is the whole “imagination” angle: in pretty much every situation, the audience is going to come up with something far better suited than whatever your on-screen hero is doing (the Justice League animated show suffered a lot from this). It’s hard to like your protagonist when he’s busy making salad tongs or something.

DC has no control over what is done with its characters as movie properties. That’s all Warner Bros. DC has hired women; the “Wonder Woman” comic book is currently being written by Gail Simone, and they’ve hired Felicia Henderson and Angela Robinson to write “Teen Titans” and “The Web” respectively.

GL is a silly character and WW isn’t ? You must be on crack. There is a reason why they are replacing her….SHE SUCKS. Every thing about her is stupid, from her origin to her “mission”. I think it says a lot about a character’s magnitude of suckiness if you have to constantly have to make up new powers for them to mitigate how much they suck(she is invulnerable now but still needs bullet proof bracelets, or let’s give her a sword that can freakin’ split electrons cause the lasso is pretty lame) or shoe horn them into stories that where much better without them, or insist on printing their title when no one buys it for the sole reason of “she’s a marquee character”. Jeez, just kill her off like they did Poochie on the Simpsons. You don’t even need an elaborate way of doing it. She could make like Judy on Family Matters…trust me, no one would notice.

The problem with WW is that she’s the only original hero as far as females go; every other popular one is a feminine version of a male: Supergirl, Batgirl, etc. In other words, a majority of the writers have been looking at DC females through the prism of a male. There is no male counterpart to WW and as a result they’ve gotten really lazy with her as a character (hence the ever-changing background, the lame rouge’s gallery and weird mixture of technology and the supernatural).

Once DC decided to make the GL’s power more based on cosmic power and less on magic, it opened a lot of doors. They’ve got four decent human Lanterns to do stories for, and a really good excuse to make the movies sci-fi by nature.

Overall I think GL’s a silly character, simply because of the ring and the green and the colors, though DC did a good job (not great) with many of the JL:NF scenes, but on the other hand, it involves a lot of space stuff.

In recent superhero movies, only the intro credits of Superman Returns and the Silver Surfer section of FF4 II had any significant space scenes, so, GL could offer a different setting.