Impressive New Green Lantern Trailer Soars Out of WonderCon

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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
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)

Red Lanterns are powered by rage.

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)
Actually it very nearly was if I remember right, Jack Black was a potential for this role so, yeah...

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?
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.
 

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Nerf Ninja said:
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)

Red Lanterns are powered by rage.
Yeah, in the comics Abin Sur was killed by Atrocitus, but it looks like they're altering the story in this to make Parallax the main villain, hence why they're changing the reason for Hector Hammond's transformation from exposure of Abin Sur's ship engines to an infection by Parallax.

So I think the story will basically be Secret Origin by shoehorning Parallax as the villain.
As for the whole smoke monster vibe, eh. I'm not that impressed by it. We'll see.

But i'm happy it's looking better now than it did. Glad that my favourite comic series might be given justice on the screen.
 

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Geamo said:
Nerf Ninja said:
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)

Red Lanterns are powered by rage.
Yeah, in the comics Abin Sur was killed by Atrocitus, but it looks like they're altering the story in this to make Parallax the main villain, hence why they're changing the reason for Hector Hammond's transformation from exposure of Abin Sur's ship engines to an infection by Parallax.

So I think the story will basically be Secret Origin by shoehorning Parallax as the villain.
As for the whole smoke monster vibe, eh. I'm not that impressed by it. We'll see.

But i'm happy it's looking better now than it did. Glad that my favourite comic series might be given justice on the screen.
You're probably right, for some reason I didn't associate the smokey tentacle things on Earth with the scene of Abin Sur getting shot.
 

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Ooo. Pre-Betrayal Sinestro. Nice, nice.

This trailer made everything look so much more intense. It was far more breathtaking for me. Based on this, I would definitely see the movie in a regular full-priced theatre.
 

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Shit, this one does look a lot better. It looks like a totally different movie! I still wished they had picked a black guy to be green lantern, but this looks good nonetheless.
 

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Was it just me who thought the purple alien with the mustache looked like Andrew Ryan?
 

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Bouchie Bouch said:
Am I the only one that finds the way he says the GL oath kinda underwhelming?
its like he got a brain enema and suddenly knew what it was, which is total bullshit. i hope there are more constructs, giant green fists are kind of a letdown when you are talking about a thought powered goodies machine
 

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ace_of_something said:
It would appear sinestro is going to be in his pre-betrayal glory. Neat.

Soxafloppin said:
God Dam, I am Excited for this movie! Its going to be a good Summer :D

I think this draws my excitement for anything Marvel.
Green Latern isn't Marvel...
Yea it was a typo, looking back at what i wrote that doesnt actually make sense.

I meant to write It draws my attension more than anything Marvel, namely Thor and Cap. America.

But im allso highly excited for those.
 

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I have only one problem with this and that's the mask cgi on Hal it just bothers me. I'm gonna give it a pass saying it's just unfinished as I really hope they make the mask look less fake.

Either way hearing him say the oath made me unreasonably excited
 

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Cant wait

...i cant belive how Realish their Costumes are...(That is pretty Damn kewl)

Wait...when the first Alien bad guy (Forgotten his name) he was Red...blood red not a Yellowish Gold...
 

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I already liked the previous trailer. This one is even better. But honestly i never doubted that a comic-book film directed by Martin Campbell would be successful. This movie will rock.