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Jack Black has closed his deal. He will be playing Green Lantern in a film that has been described as a “zany comedy version a la THE MASK.” All rights to the DC comic have been worked out as well, so you can expect to start hearing more about this project in the months ahead.
As I understand it, DC Comics tried desperately to dodge this bullet, but ultimately, they don’t have the right to veto something if Warner Bros. really wants to make it happen. This is the problem with the way DC’s deal with their corporate overlords is structured. Their hands are tied. As much as they are aware of the problem with this approach to the material, they just have to sit back and watch it happen along with fans of the character and the rich mythology that has been established over the long run of the various GREEN LANTERN titles.
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First catwoman, now green lantern....I think MARVEL has injected "agents" on Time Warner's upper management.
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So it's not DC that's effing up all the movies of their properties. It's Warner Bros. I'm slightly less angered now...
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I think a green lantern movie starring Jack Black would work, if the main character is G'nort.
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I'm am not going to respond to this right now. I will hold off my rage until I go home later today and then I will rise up in furious anger and righteous hatred.
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I'm am not going to respond to this right now. I will hold off my rage until I go home later today and then I will rise up in furious anger and righteous hatred.
I approve.
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I shall still think of this as "rumour" for now...
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I like Jack Black, but this fucking sucks. The only way I could enjoy it would be not thinking of it as a Green Lantern movie.
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I heard this as a rumor a couple weeks ago. Are superheroes supposed to be chubby?
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Look, Ma! It's... FAT LANTERN! I think he should be Hal, though... 
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I like Jack Black, but this fucking sucks. The only way I could enjoy it would be not thinking of it as a Green Lantern movie.
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It's like Constantine. If I don't think of it as a Hellblazer movie (because it's obviously not), I might actually enjoy it. If I bothered to see it, I mean.
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Jack Black as GL..........I got two words for ya..........Guy Gardner!
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How 'bout Guh Nort? 
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I could see him as G'Nort.
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Jack Black has closed his deal. He will be playing Green Lantern in a film that has been described as a “zany comedy version a la THE MASK.” All rights to the DC comic have been worked out as well, so you can expect to start hearing more about this project in the months ahead.
As I understand it, DC Comics tried desperately to dodge this bullet, but ultimately, they don’t have the right to veto something if Warner Bros. really wants to make it happen. This is the problem with the way DC’s deal with their corporate overlords is structured. Their hands are tied. As much as they are aware of the problem with this approach to the material, they just have to sit back and watch it happen along with fans of the character and the rich mythology that has been established over the long run of the various GREEN LANTERN titles.
This has GOT to be a joke.
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This will never be made, but I expect Jack to cameo as Guy or G'Nort.
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Are superheroes supposed to be chubby?
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This wont happen. Keep your shit together. Theyre all fucking with you just like they did with Beyonce Lois.
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Hey, that's right! Like the Matrix-style Superman costume. Ahhh....
Y'know, if they wanna make a zany super-hero comedy starring Jack Black, they should just make Hong Kong Phooey(sp?).
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Marvel has gotta be laughing their ass off at this.
How you doin'?
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I actually wouldn't mind seeing something like this... eventually.
It'd be nice if they laid some groundwork first, though. Maybe make two movies taking place in earlier decades first:
A golden age Green Lantern movie with radio personality Alan Scott to start out with (anyone have any casting suggestions?). Takes place during World War II or possibly in the late prewar era. Do something with the mystical nature of the ring and the lantern. Maybe Alan Scott could find the ancient jade lantern in China himself sometime during the 1930s before the Japanese invasion. Maybe play up the mystical old Orient aspects that we so rarely saw. Have him retire at the end of the movie now that the menace of the day (Nazis? Gangsters? Occultists?) is over.
Then a silver age Green Lantern movie starring Dennis Quaid as Hal Jordan taking place in the '50s during the height of the Cold War. Really play up the space opera aspects of the character. A lot of space shots, a lot of aliens. A huge action sequence with a large number of other Green Lanterns in CGI. Maybe end it with the destruction of the (almost) entire Green Lantern Corps in battle with a powerful foe... maybe Krona a thousand times powerful, with complete mastery over the emerald energy. Hal Jordan and almost all the other GLs get a fantastic death scene.
THEN do the one with Jack Black as comic-book artist Kyle Rayner. Maybe the last surviving Green Lantern Corps member has escaped to earth and is living in seclusion disguised as a human. He dies some 20-30 years after the destruction of the GLC but is compelled to find a worthy successor to pass on the ring and the lantern, but he does not do this too quickly at first because the menace of Krona is somehow still out there despite his physical body being destroyed. The Jack Black character is just a regular guy who possesses the most powerful weapon of mass destruction (and mass creation) in the world (if not the universe). Hilarity ensues.
Or make the third one first, then do the Hal Jordan movie, and then the Alan Scott one. I dunno. But I think a more "serious" version (or versions) of Green Lantern needs to be established before doing a Jack Black comedy movie.
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A fourth movie, if the franchise is successful, could reunite the aspects of the first three movies:
Kyle Rayner (Jack Black) could meet a much-older Alan Scott, who now becomes Obi Wan to his Luke. Through Scott's help, Rayner discovers that the "collective willpower" or "souls" of the entire dead GLC is "stored" somehow in his ring. Through his ring he can commune with the spirits of the dead Green Lanterns, including his immediate predecessor, Hal Jordan, who guides him through the final battle with Krona when it seems that all hope is lost.
Oh, and one last thing: To tie it all together, it turns out that the mystical jade lantern is actually a "key" hidden on the earth several millennia ago by the Guardians of the Universe which has the power to restore the power of the Green Lantern Corps, which it does in the fourth movie. It can't restore the old GLs back to life, of course, but it does bring back the collective power of the now-deceased Guardians in order to enable new Green Lanterns to be recruited. At the end of the fourth film, Alan Scott leaves Earth to become the "New Guardian," now holding the power within himself and becoming the spiritual leader of the Green Lantern Corps in a similar way to the old Guardians of the Universe. Kyle Rayner returns to Earth and continues his career there, satisfied that he's no longer alone in his mission. Oh, and he bags Alan Scott's oriental granddaughter, Jade.
I know I'm dreaming and that none of this will be made, but it could be cool.
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I actually wouldn't mind seeing something like this... eventually.
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I actually wouldn't mind seeing something like this... eventually.
I've lost all respect for you.
Read my proposal.
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There should never be a Green Lantern Kyle Rayner movie. Ever! EVERAAAAAAAALKDFGGGGLERF
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maybe he will play the 'guy gardner' version that everyone hates and we all could like the film....
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I actually like Guy Gardner as a GL. And I don't want to see a fat, comedic relief Guy Gardner.
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Unfuckingbelievable.
Show me an online petition and you'll show me Hal and Kyle fans united in fury.
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I actually wouldn't mind seeing something like this... eventually.
It'd be nice if they laid some groundwork first, though. Maybe make two movies taking place in earlier decades first:
A golden age Green Lantern movie with radio personality Alan Scott to start out with (anyone have any casting suggestions?). Takes place during World War II or possibly in the late prewar era. Do something with the mystical nature of the ring and the lantern. Maybe Alan Scott could find the ancient jade lantern in China himself sometime during the 1930s before the Japanese invasion. Maybe play up the mystical old Orient aspects that we so rarely saw. Have him retire at the end of the movie now that the menace of the day (Nazis? Gangsters? Occultists?) is over.
Then a silver age Green Lantern movie starring Dennis Quaid as Hal Jordan taking place in the '50s during the height of the Cold War. Really play up the space opera aspects of the character. A lot of space shots, a lot of aliens. A huge action sequence with a large number of other Green Lanterns in CGI. Maybe end it with the destruction of the (almost) entire Green Lantern Corps in battle with a powerful foe... maybe Krona a thousand times powerful, with complete mastery over the emerald energy. Hal Jordan and almost all the other GLs get a fantastic death scene.
THEN do the one with Jack Black as comic-book artist Kyle Rayner. Maybe the last surviving Green Lantern Corps member has escaped to earth and is living in seclusion disguised as a human. He dies some 20-30 years after the destruction of the GLC but is compelled to find a worthy successor to pass on the ring and the lantern, but he does not do this too quickly at first because the menace of Krona is somehow still out there despite his physical body being destroyed. The Jack Black character is just a regular guy who possesses the most powerful weapon of mass destruction (and mass creation) in the world (if not the universe). Hilarity ensues.
Or make the third one first, then do the Hal Jordan movie, and then the Alan Scott one. I dunno. But I think a more "serious" version (or versions) of Green Lantern needs to be established before doing a Jack Black comedy movie.
I think the Jack Black GL movie would be even worse, then. The two first movies keep a serious tone and the third one is closer to a parody? I think that would be wasting a lot of good potential for a great trilogy. The third one would ruin the mood of the story. It would be like replacing Return of the Jedi with an in-continuity version of Space Balls.
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There should never be a Green Lantern Kyle Rayner movie. Ever! EVERAAAAAAAALKDFGGGGLERF
I thought your problem was in the way he was handled? Kyle has a lot of potential and his personality makes a great contrast with the other GLs.
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Well I was hamming it up a bit with my pretend fanboy rage, but in all seriousness, my main problem with Kyle was just the fact that he seemed like a poorly designed candidate for Green Lantern-hood. What made Kyle seem like a reasonable choice? The fact that he's an artist?
At least G'Nort and Guy Gardner were punchlines and not portrayed as if meant to be taken seriously. He was a dope, protecting the planet, wielding the most powerful weapon in the universe.
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He wasn't a choice, he was the first guy Ganthet bumped into, and that's the whole point of the character. Ganthet says "You'll do" and not "I've found the chosen one!". He isn't perfect like the rest.
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Great. The most powerful weapon in the universe given out just like that. What if the first person Ganthet found was Chris Oakley?
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