Green Latern Script details (spoilers)

[GreenScar]

IESB.net has posted a script review. I know very little about Green Lantern, so you guys are going to tell me how this sounds. Here is part of what they had to say:

Let me start off with saying that within just reading the first few pages, I knew Berlanti, Guggenheim and Green had gotten the character right.

I don't want to do a traditional script review, instead I want to give IESB readers more of a sense of the story by going through some plot details and my thoughts on the screenplay. Wait a minute, that is a review. Let it begin...

It starts off with the revelation of Oa and The Central Battery with a voice over narration explaining that 1) there are extraterrestrials that protect the universe, 2) they have power rings, 3) there are thousands of Green Lanterns and 4) one of us has become one of them.

We go from one part of the universe to another and find ourselves in a familiar Solar System…our own.

Before I share some of the details let's do a quick character list of those we will see in the movie if this script gets the "green" light.

Martin Jordan
Hal Jordan/Green Lantern
Thomas Kalmuka
Carl Ferris
Carol Ferris
Kilowog
Tomar-Re
Abin Sur
Thaal Sinestro
The Guardians
Legion
Hector Hammond

A few cameos include a certain mild mannered reporter from the Daily Planet, a certain college football coach with the last name of Gardner (who we are promised in the script we will see more of in the second film) and loads of other characters sure to keep fanboys orgasmic throughout.

Back to the script - The story follows the traditional Hal Jordan/Green Lantern story lines to a certain degree including the battle between Legion and Abin Sur, Abin Sur's crash landing on Earth, as well as the choosing of Hal Jordan over Guy Gardner and Clark Kent.

Parts are straight out of the Emerald Dawn series including Jordan's simulator being ripped out of the training center and flown to a dying Abin Sur and Hal Jordan going to Oa to help defeat Legion.

The major difference is in the Sinestro character arch. I don't want to give too much away but the writers were very careful to stay true to the character without blowing their load on the first film.

The other difference is also introducing Hector Hammond into the story line and making him the big threat to Earth or Gaia if you prefer.

From the first major beat of the story - that is sure to bring a tear - to the revelations at the end of the movie that easily set up prequels as well as sequels this script has it all. Also, unlike other recent superhero movies, this Green Lantern story has science fiction elements such as visiting other planets and major space battles.

It's a quick read and is a mere 109 pages but is action packed from the beginning to end. It has the potential to be bigger than Iron Man or maybe even The Dark Knight.

The script, if greenlit, is a sure-fire hit for fan boys, but in scale it's big, VERY big, and we are hearing rumors that it may be too big for the director currently attached, Greg Berlanti.

But who would the studio trust to take on a franchise of this size?

First, let me say that the studio execs love this GL script, they really dig it - and get it which is always important - and word is they are prepared to spend a pretty penny.

[MrBogey]

Well for once CGI will fit in a film. Heh.

[doctorD]

The funny thing is I thought they were going to have the John Stewart Lantern character in the movie as well. If this is correct then it doesn't look like they will.

[charlie swords]

sounds good so far...i hope they cast someone decent for Hal Jordan.

it would be cool if they would get into the Emerald Twilight / Zero Hour / Final Night storyline with the sequels but that would require pulling in a lot of other characters but if DC is going to try to do the same as Marvel with crossover then it may happen. This would also allow them to move easily into the Kyle Rayner stories.

I would rather not see Jon Stewart.

However i do not know how i feel about the rumor at the end of the article about the possibility of George Miller taking over this project, especially after his terrible casting for the JLA movie thats on hold.

[Clark Kent]

It sounds awesome but frankly I can already imagine the budget being monstrous. I surmise the studio will pare back some of the action. The only concern I ever have is that every studio feels the need to retell the superhero origin in minute detail, meaning we don't get to see the actual superhero until the last third of the movie. I am very happy they went with Hal Jordan.

[GreenScar]

There's an update on what's going on (and who they may cast as Superman in the movie)

Source

The “Green Lantern” movie is rolling right along, co-screenwriter Marc Guggenheim tells us — even if digressions about other comics characters sometimes distract them from the task at hand.

“This morning, we sat down to talk Green Lantern,” Guggenheim told MTV, “and we ended up riffing for an hour and a half on another, much more obscure character. Sometimes, you just have to roll with it when inspiration strikes, you know? I’m sure the studio wouldn’t be happy about it, but we’re not going to blow the deadline. We’ll get it in.”

Guggenheim said that he and fellow screenwriters Michael Green and Greg Berlanti (who’s also directing the film) are on the third studio draft, and they’ve just been refining the script based on studio notes and locations.

“[The changes are] nothing that’s affecting the storyline, really,” he said. “It’s pretty well set. But sometimes we’ll move a scene to a different location for budget purposes, perhaps in an already established location instead of a new one. It’s a question of, which locations can we live without? It’s a constant process to streamline what you’re going through, even after the film is shot, when you’re cutting things in the edit. That’s what the rewrite process is like, how you sand down the roughness of the a movie to its smoothest.”

Besides scripting, Berlanti is in constant talks with the designers such as Aaron Sims (who recently gave us a peek at his “X-Men Origins: Magneto” character designs).

“I’ll come over and drool [at the designs],” Guggenheim said. “I will say that the design work is truly mindblowing, and it’s hard to pick a favorite. But the shots on Oa are spectacular. What Oa looks like has never been seen on film.”

And while there’s already a lot of speculation over who would play Green Lantern — Ryan Gosling? Matthew Settle? David Boreanaz? — what about Clark Kent, who will make a small cameo? Will the part go to someone already established on film or television to be the Man of Steel, like Brandon Routh or Tom Welling?

“There were rumors that Tom Welling would have a cameo in ‘Batman Begins’ as a young Clark Kent, to meet up with a young Bruce Wayne,” Guggenheim noted. “But you have to be careful when you do things like that, because it sounds great in concept, but when you sit down to watch it, it poses the danger of pulling you out of the film.”

But as a self-proclaimed “sucker for a good Easter egg,” Guggenheim said, “The fanboy in me would love that. Robert Downey, Jr. in ‘The Hulk’ was awesome. I love that stuff in general, and I think the fans would enjoy it. Brandon Routh or even Tom Welling [in 'Green Lantern'] would be awesome. And anything is possible. The beauty part of being the writer, though, is that I don’t actually have to make that judgment call.”

[BStecke]

I was just reading about this. The Superman cameo is definitely cool, but hopefully it's not there just so they could say it's there. I'm looking forward to this, I love GL.

[Blu Man]

This is live-action correct. If it is this sounds like and awsome movie!

[GreenScar]

Originally Posted by Spartan54

This is live-action correct. If it is this sounds like and awsome movie!

Yes!

[Blu Man]

One more question. Which Green Lanturn is the movie going to foucas on? My vote is for Hal Jordan.

[naturephoto1]

Look forward to this one.

Rich

[GreenScar]

Originally Posted by Spartan54

This is live-action correct. If it is this sounds like and awsome movie!

Check out the first post (spoilers)

[jadedeath]

Famous reporter from the Daily Planet...

Cat Grant?

Please?

Logan

[JohnAlden]

I think Zachary Quinto can pull off "Superman" well.

[Blu Man]

Originally Posted by JohnAlden

I think Zachary Quinto can pull off "Superman" well.

No Way! If your gonna have Superman you have Brandon Routh. I don't care what people say, he was a good Superman. Not as good as Reeves, but still good.