How to Make a GOOD GREEN LANTERN Movie

A video made by SuperFrame.

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0:00 Introduction
1:24 Structure & Themes
9:38 Casting
13:53 What I want to see
23:01 Movie Pitches

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[thesuperframe]

Spent a long time making this one but I feel like the effort will shine through, with that being said this is my attempt to pitch a Green Lantern saga for DC, one with a scale similar to that of Star Wars, with all the amazing mythology and lore that Green Lantern has to offer.

EDIT: I have no idea how this slipped my mind, but I noticed I never said who I'd cast as Carol in the casting section, for those that couldn't pick the face its Allison Brie.

[webwarrior_]

A Green Lantern film saga on the level of Star Wars sounds like an amazing idea. It should take full advantage of the fact that the Green Lantern Corps protect all planets, not just Earth. You could worldbuild and craft an interesting lore. I would love to see Sinestro's transition into becoming a Yellow Lantern be a slow and tragic story.

[Judas.GJ]

In my honest opinion a massively successful Green Lantern movie done right would be as big as Star Wars and Harry Potter.
The world building, the lore the emotional spectrums and politics all the villains and green lanterns
So much potential.

[tomhalloran]

YES YES YES!! To all of this! There are only a couple of tweaks I would make.
(1). Hal's character. I love Geoff Johns' GL but his Hal quickly became flanderised. Sure he's brave, a man of action but never recklessly so. He's cool and confident but not cocky or arrogant. So the inspiration for Hal's character should come from Green Lantern The Animated Series. This Hal is very much the modern Johns type Hal but in his purest form and with a bit more nuance. He's charismatic, sometimes hot-headed, a plans when necessary but type. BUT he's competent, he can back up his bravado with results (and not just from willing harder but by using his head), he admits his mistakes/faults and tries to fix them, and he listens and learns.

(2). Establish the GL Corps as something other than a police force (at first). Make them the largest, most well organised team of superheroes in the galaxy (something akin to the Legion of Superheroes) but they operate adjacent to planetary or system governments, often working alongside local forces rather than being THE police force. Oh, and that they do way more than just fight bad guys; humanitarian aid, disaster relief, diplomatic and scientific missions/escorts, etc.
Only across the events of the movies does the GL Corps become more of a police force, more militaristic as more and more systems give into fear and rage, calling for the GL Corps to keep them safe against threats they couldn't hope to beat. The Manhunters, Atrocitus and the Red Lanterns, Sinestro and his Corps.

(3). Put the focus back on Courage being the GLs source of power. The WILL to act in either the absence of or in spite of fear.
In fact, each of the colours could be expanded on to add to the layered and thematic storytelling you have in mind.
RED: war, chaos, fury, rage, warrior’s spirit, devilish
ORANGE: ambition, greed, growth, strength, appetite for life, pursuit of the body
YELLOW: power, energy, ability to exercise dominion over others (subjects feel fear), scientific logic (order), dictatorial
GREEN: courage, pursuit of fair justice, balance, life, resolve
BLUE: hope, faith, goodwill, idealistic, visionaries
INDIGO: empathy, intellect, knowledge, ability to see trough, understanding, pursuit of the mind
VIOLET: love, magic, passion, mystic, arcane

[justthinkingoutloud]

I love the idea of the Blackest Night, an ultimate antithesis to all the emotional spectrum that can only be defeated by a unity of its entirety, all colors uniting into the ultimate avatar of life, all light in its purest form. I think that is awesome, but I really do not like how Blackest Night is actually depicted, it almost just feels the writers wanted an excuse to make a massive zombie apocalypse story. In my imaginary DCU, the Blackest Night is also the final crisis, with Darkseid’s antilife being the same force of darkness first embodied by Nekron. This would just make so much more sense to me, with the power of darkness that is the opposite of the light of the lanterns stripping people of all light and emotion whatsoever rather than reanimating corpses of heroes for some reason, and it would lead to a single apocalyptic battle where the green lantern saga joins the rest of the DC universe.

[infinityinf]

The first movie should basically be Training Day. With Sinestro as the Denzel Washington character and Hal as the Ethan Hawke character.

[GrimNobody]

Sinestro and Hal having a “training day” styled movie where Hal realizes how corrupt Sinestro is over time would be really cool. He tries to warn the Guardians but they dismiss him since Sinestro is a respected lantern only for Hal to wind up saving the day.

[ethankillion]

Interesting idea. I like the idea of it being a buddy-cop film between Sinestro and Hal, rather than Hal and John. John and Katma as background characters that would be set up to be more toward the frontlines of a sequel is a nice idea too. I'm really fond of the fact that Sinestro, though not of pure intentions and obviously not completely heroic, would be the one who ends up saving the day.

[justthinkingoutloud]

I’ve never heard a more universal fan choice for a major DC character than Luke Evans as Sinestro, and ever since I heard the suggestion I’ve been dying to see it. Sinestro is one of DC’s best villains and deserves to be done right.

[aaronflemingo]

I can really see this concept for a Green Lantern saga working well in the same universe as The Batman. I can see Batman and this Green Lantern working very well together in a Justice League film that would most likely take place after the second one of these Green Lantern movies and after a third Batman movie, so that Batman knows how to work alone and prefers it and Green Lantern has just had to fight his partner and is afraid to work as a team again.

[noahadams]

This would be amazing! The green lantern mythos has always been one of my favorite parts of DC comics and theirs so much untapped potential. The lantern universe could be so expansive that it could be its own independent cinematic universe with no other dc tie ins required. I really hope warner bros gets their act together and starts truly utilizing their amazing IPs.

[lukebaxter]

This video really means a lot to me. Not only did it introduce me to your channel, Mitch, it finally got me to read Geoff Johns' run on Green Lantern, and while I haven't completed it, it's something I've become obsessed with, also making Hal Jordan my third favourite DC character, third only to Martian Manhunter and Swamp Thing.

And this pitch is just too perfect. You really know how to breakdown heroes and how to make films about them. I'm honestly jealous of your skills and talent.

[WritingGeekNL]

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I understand that feeling. For me it was Batman, Fantastic Four and a bit of Superman and Spider-Man.
And you can already guess which ones haven’t had the greatest of adaptations on the big screen...

[infinityinf]

Irrfan Khan passed away a couple years ago. RIP. Loved him in Life of Pi

[toganium]

Green Lantern: First Flight and Green Lantern: TAS are pretty epic, ngl.

[SYKOPATHeist]

as a GL fan, i love what you did here.
as much you have going on i think this concept works much better as a series....very expensive series, but a great one none the less.
in a series you really get to unpackage all the running arcs that i believe would be hard to do in film.
again....the series will be expensive but could be the best series DC ever produced if done right.

[andresluz]

Dude hats off to you, you clearly thought this through, know your stuff and I would love to see this vision.

[daviddyster]

For what is worth, I love your cast and ideas for Green Lantern.

[REaDComicsau]

For a Green Lantern movie trilogy I want the villains to be:
1st: Manhunters
2nd: Atrocitus and the Red Lanterns
3rd: Sinestro
And explore all of the Lantern Corps.

[oscarrnved]

This is awesome, I hope you do one for Wonder Woman or something like the Flash. While I do know that Batman may be overused, I think you bring in really brilliant ideas on how these characters could be adapted on screen.