#Black green lantern movie#

#Black green lantern movie#

And I totally get why they would rather make a serious superhero movie if thought it could succeed. That was the first time I sensed that they were rethinking this, and I’d like to think that it wasn’t because they didn’t like my movie.

They were already asking me, “What if it’s not Green Lantern? What if it’s very similar, but you change it and make it a fictional superhero so we can make that a straight comedy?” Maybe foolishly, I argued that I thought it was funnier to make it a real take on a real cartoon character.

The studio, when they gave me the re-write notes at one point I had a long discussion about whether or not to make it Green Lantern or whether to create a make-believe character. A lot of it was in my re-write-the studio gave me notes and I did a re-write about a half-year later. I wrote this first draft, which, unfortunately, is the one that’s online. What was the first sign that the project was in trouble? I mean, it’s a very loose adaptation, but a lot of the villain elements I took from it: in my version, Sinestro is a major villain, and this was at the time of all of the controversy of the Patriot Act and the way we were responding to terrorism in the mid-zeros. Actually, my movie is an adaptation of the first chapter of a story called “Emerald Dawn” from the 80s. At the same time, as I read all these different stories from different eras, I actually think some of the stuff they did in the 80s and 90s was kind of amazing and could have been adapted into an excellent, fairly serious Green Lantern movie that has some comedy elements to it. The more correct that was, I thought, the funnier it would be that Jack Black, the wrong guy, was being introduced to this world. It wouldn’t be funny unless the actual legend and the world of Green Lantern were accurate. I never had read the comics, so I immersed myself in Green Lantern comics from every era-partly because I wanted to take the world seriously. You know, I only knew Green Lantern on a very superficial level and I had seen a few cartoons as a kid and I was aware of it. How familiar were you with Green Lantern? I turned Jack around enough that he wanted to do a movie. So, to me, that was the validation I take from the experience. After I wrote the script, he read it and did want to do it. He wasn’t really interested in doing any type of superhero thing. I know him-he’s done a few of my autism benefits-so I asked him if he was interested, and he actually said that he wasn’t. They said, “Write it with Jack Black in mind.” He wasn’t attached at all. Was Jack Black attached from the beginning? I just knew that this was the movie they were making, and when I thought about the potential as a comedy, I felt like, yeah, I can do this. I was told they’re doing it as a comedy, that’s the way they’re going, so I didn’t really think about whether this was a wrong thing to do. What appealed to me about it on a comedic level was that, in order to be a superhero, this requires no physical skill or talent. Basically just the premise that the wrong guy gets the ring and can do all kinds of goofy visual jokes-because the visuals are so potentially ridiculous.

And I thought, Well, of course this could be a comedy. I know that when the idea was pitched to me to do a comedy about Green Lantern I did a quick review of the specifics of Green Lantern. I haven’t seen it, so I can’t speak to how the movie itself works. That’s what makes your comedic version such a curiosity. Well, for a lot of people, the version that was made didn’t work. I don’t see how-the version that’s in theaters didn’t exactly fare too well with critics. killed that version of the project-choosing instead to go with a more serious version that is currently in theaters.

Led by die-hard Green Lantern fans, the Internet revolted and, reportedly based on the potential backlash, Warner Bros. In Smigel’s version, the power ring that chooses Hal Jordan to become Green Lantern malfunctions and, instead, chooses a reality-television star played by Black. and Late Night with Conan O’Brien fame) to write a comedic version of Green Lantern with Jack Black in mind as the star. had commissioned Robert Smigel (of S.N.L. In 2004, reports surfaced that Warner Bros. The title character is played by Ryan Reynolds-who may have been genetically conceived just to someday play a wisecracking superhero-but, in one of the more curious backstories in recent moviemaking history, the role of Green Lantern almost went to Jack Black. Green Lantern, Warner Bros.’ $200 million tentpole superhero film, opened this past weekend to a somewhat disappointing $52 million box-office take.