Warner Bros. is deciding between this and The Flash. They will more likely greenlight The Flash and reboot Green Lantern.
More Buscemi at http://forum.reelsociety.com/I am reminded of Movie Bob's words
about a sequel.
If there's a new Green Lantern film this decade, it will be a top down rebuild like The Hulk. Or as part of a Justice League movie. Even then, I would not expect him to play a big part.
I'll believe this is getting a sequel when the trailers are out.
Martin Campbell isn't returning for the sequel. He found Warner Bros.'s constant interference too much for him to come back.
So yes, Warner Bros. didn't learn from Batman and Robin.
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So that's another point on Movie Bob's prediction.
I wonder how long it'll take DC to get it together and start making their own movies...
I've got two guns pointed west and a broken compass.I suppose the situation is different. DC probably doesn't need their own studio, since WB makes all their movies (or most of them).
I've got two guns pointed west and a broken compass.OTOH, that's a mixed blessing at best. After all, its not like WB seems to know what they are doing. Disney at least seems to trust Marvel Studios to do take care of its business ( I haven't heard any rumors of corporate meddling ).
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Coz Disney has no choice. Most of the movie deals have been signed LONG before Disney bought Marvel. So Disney can't interfere, they need to let Marvel and whatever studio is making a particular movie do their stuff. Believe me, Disney would like nothing better than to make all the Marvel films in-house, but they can't so long as the movie rights Marvel sold are still out there.
As a brand, DC needs to get its act together in terms of its movie. Like someone else said, DC is pretty much winging it with is licenses beyond Nolan's handling of Batman. Superman Returns was merely okay, and while I didn't hate Green Lantern, I found it to be completely mediocre and forgettable. They really need to take a page from Marvel and begin to forge a shared cinematic universe. I think with Nolan's Batman run coming to an end, that'd be a good place to start.
These are the words that shall come from my mouth. I shall be known for speaking them.The first thing they need to do: stop hiring writers of TV shows that aren't even aimed towards the comic book crowd to write their movies (I'm looking at you, David E. Kelley and Greg Berlanti).
The second thing: look at the model that makes their animated adaptations so successful (their animation division is like Marvel's film division) and copy that.
More Buscemi at http://forum.reelsociety.com/When you get right down to it, the job of a comic book writer isn't fundamentally different from a screenwriter. They have script format (though screenplays are more rigidly formatted) with limited space, and mostly involve scenic description and dialogue writing. So why doesn't DC's licensees just hire some of its writers to write a screenplay for its heroes instead of hiring them on as "creative consultants?"
edited 5th Aug '11 9:20:57 AM by MatthewTheRaven
Of course, that wouldn't necessarily matter, since since 5-6 current issues roughly equal one old school self contained issue. ![]()
...except that you need to read like three other series or mini-series to understand all that's going on. And even putting that aside, that's not economical storytelling. Even the Marvel movies, especially the Iron Man movies, suffer from excessive padding and underwhelming payoffs.
Really, DC and Marvel's parent companies are handling the comic book medium wisely. It's an inexpensive way to generate action heroes and maintain trademarks on them. Trying to build good stories around them is handled by the adaptation writers.
One thing I think Time-Warner and Disney could do better is twist the comics' publishers arms about creating heroes of other genres for them.
“Love is the eternal law whereby the universe was created and is ruled.” — St. BernardWell yeah, most comic book writers are shit and depend on bloated, heavily-tied in event stories, but I'm not quite sure that plotting and pacing and writing dialogue for a graphic novel is radically different from a screenplay. A graphic novel or a written-for-the-trade style arc with still follow a three act structure, and the major difference in pacing is between the serial/episodic format and a single plot format.

Despite the fact that the first film underpreformed, they are moving ahead with the sequel.
And they are saying that it will be Darker and Edgier
Expect it either late 2013 or 2014.
edited 2nd Aug '11 11:59:37 AM by dmysta3000
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