I thought It looked more like Atrocitus who is the leader of the Red Lanterns, which could mean they're laying the groundwork for the blackest night saga. (He was retconned as being in the spaceship with Abin Sur in the comics and was the reason for his fatal injuries)Pallindromemordnillap said:Not too hot on the GL mythos, what was that thing that killed Abin Sur and later invaded Earth? I thought it could be Parrallax but he's made of yellow fear energy, not fire and smoke
Red Lanterns are powered by rage.
Actually it very nearly was if I remember right, Jack Black was a potential for this role so, yeah...danpascooch said:[I never knew anything about Green Lantern, but the original trailer made it look like the movie was a buddy comedy or something, along the style of Green Hornet, and we're all sick of those, I mean, how many movies can there be about people who are irresponsible suddenly getting important responsibility and hilarity ensues? (I'm not exclusively talking about superhero movies, but I have a few examples of superhero movies)
In the comics Abin Sur was given a prophecy of the coming Blackest Night (Apocalypse basically) which caused him to doubt his ring, so chose to fly in a spaceship as opposed to ring travel. Not sure what reason they'd give in the films but that's a pretty recent addition to the GL lore as before it wasn't really mentioned.bilkobob said:Don't know much about GL comics so here is a question for you Lantern fans:
So in the first scene the injured alien Green Lantern escapes in a space ship and crash lands on Earth where Hal Jordan takes over the Lantern duties. A few scenes later Hal is being whisked away to the Green Lantern home world via the ring. So, why did the first injured alien have to use an escape pod/ ship to travel to Earth? Why didn't the ring fly him to Earth?