Green Lantern Getting Director

[benson111]

Variety says Warner Bros. is negotiating with Martin Campbell to direct Green Lantern, the live-action film based on the DC Comics hero.

Campbell last directed Casino Royale and recently wrapped the Mel Gibson starrer Edge of Darkness.

Green Lantern is written by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Michael Green. Berlanti had once been considered to direct. Instead, WB has attached him to direct This is Where I Leave You, the upcoming Jonathan Tropper novel which will be adapted by the author.

The "Green Lantern" was created in 1940 by writer Bill Finger and artist Martin Nodell. Hal Jordan introduced in 1959, a second-generation test pilot, is an ordinary man who was given the power ring and battery (lantern) by a dying alien named Abin Sur. When Abin Sur's spaceship crashed on Earth, the alien used his ring to seek out an individual to take his place as Green Lantern: someone who was "utterly honest and born without fear."

[ultimatespidey81]

does geoff johns have any type of creative handle over the movie??

he is currently the head writer at DC comics and is arguably one of the top writers in the biz...

[kiggidykev]

Risky business, a Green Lantern movie. He's not got the brooding character down like Batman, and has the high chance of coming off as a boring boyscout like Superman has in recent movies.

[benson111]

Risky business, a Green Lantern movie. He's not got the brooding character down like Batman, and has the high chance of coming off as a boring boyscout like Superman has in recent movies.

True, but depending on the GL they go with it could be brooding, or comical.

I am all for it though, because GL has imagination, unlike most of the current chars do. ;) It could make for a CGI Fest.

[kiggidykev]

True, but depending on the GL they go with it could be brooding, or comical.

I am all for it though, because GL has imagination, unlike most of the current chars do. ;) It could make for a CGI Fest.

I'm hoping for more on the comical side, more like Iron Man did. Wonder if they'll try to work in any other members of the Corps, or exclude that for time.

You're quite right, Lantern would be a prime candidate for CG everywhere, what with the nigh-infinite powers of that ring.

[jrcronlakers]

Any thoughts on who will play GL.

[benson111]

Any thoughts on who will play GL.

There are some rumors. I hate to post this one. Jack Black was supposedly linked to the movie, but that was debunked. I like black but uh....yea please no. Thats the only rumor i could find.

I tell you who i would like to see as GL......Me. ;)