Green Lantern Sequel Already in the Works

[Logan Westbrook]

Green Lantern Sequel Already in the Works

The wheels have started to turn for a second Green Lantern movie, before the first is even finished.

Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment must be pretty confident about the performance of the upcoming Green Lantern, as a sequel is already being planned. Warner has hired Greg Berlanti, Michael Green and Marc Guggenheim, all of whom worked on the script for the first movie, to write a treatment for the second.

The trio will also write a treatment for a Flash movie, and will work on the script for one of the two movies, although which one is currently undecided.

It's unusual for a studio to move so quickly on a franchise, but Warner Bros. has experience in dealing with super-successful franchises like Harry Potter, so what seems weird to us is probably a very sensible move on its part.

Green Lantern is scheduled for release June 2011.

Source: CBR [http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=26619]


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[Jared]

Talking about optimistic much? They must have alot of faith in it

 

[Frequen-Z]

Isn't the first one a full year from release? This is far too early for a sequel. They better damn hope the first is a hit.

 

[Deofuta]

I agree, seems like they are jumping the gun a bit.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

THE FLASH?!

Ahh...He's my favorite DC superhero.

Fuck this Green Lantern shit. Dump all that money into The Flash!

 

[Hurr Durr Derp]

Well, it's not like we're not living the the 'Age of Sequels' anyway, so whatever. And superhero comicbooks are nothing if not an endless series of sequels, so it's a natural fit in that way.

Let's just hope the original will be as worthy of a sequel as they seem to believe.

 

[SonicWaffle]

THE FLASH?!

Ahh...He's my favorite DC superhero.

Fuck this Green Lantern shit. Dump all that money into The Flash!

I dunno, there isn't really all that much you can do with The Flash. He just moves fast, really. Works fine in a comic, but in a movie it would either need to be almost constantly in bullet time or the main character would be moving too fast for the audience to see.

 

[Jaebird]

Guggenheim and Green are pretty decent comic and television writers. Let's all hope they didn't just copy and paste an existing story arc from the comics, and called it a day.

 

[Martster]

Confident much?

 

[LawlessSquirrel]

Yay, I guess? Seems a bit over-eager, but I guess it's better that the sequal be planned early rather than just being there to leech off the success of an original. More likely to get a satisfying continuation of the story (in theory).

Probably won't see either unless dragged there by a group of friends or if the first one is a major success anyway, I don't know enough about the Green Lantern to be excited.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

So are we heading towards a Justice League movie at some point, to compete with the avengers movie? As soon as either franchise says 'multi-verse', I'm out.

 

[CaptainCrunch]

Probably won't see either unless dragged there by a group of friends or if the first one is a major success anyway, I don't know enough about the Green Lantern to be excited.

Do yourself a favor, and watch JLA: New Frontier. If the Green Lantern story doesn't interest you, at least it has Batman at the peak of badassery. That, and you'll know pretty much what to expect from the first Green Lantern movie.
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[The Great JT]

Bit overzealous, are we, DC?

EDIT: Also, CC, I thought Green Lantern: First Flight was a good introduction to Green Lantern as a character (at least the Hal Jordan version).

 

[Soxafloppin]

Im lookin forward to the GL movie, i loved First Flight so i should like this.

 

[Eri]

THE FLASH?!

Ahh...He's my favorite DC superhero.

Fuck this Green Lantern shit. Dump all that money into The Flash!

THE GREEN LANTERN?!

Ahh...He's my favorite DC superhero.

Fuck this Flash shit. Dump all that money into The Green Lantern!

 

[Eri]

Probably won't see either unless dragged there by a group of friends or if the first one is a major success anyway, I don't know enough about the Green Lantern to be excited.

Do yourself a favor, and watch JLA: New Frontier. If the Green Lantern story doesn't interest you, at least it has Batman at the peak of badassery. That, and you'll know pretty much what to expect from the first Green Lantern movie.
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I dunno if you dunno, but GL has his own;