The original draft is online if you know where to look for it and all of the changes for the final film seem designed to make it more of a generic superhero origin story, when the potential is there for a space opera cop movie. Perhaps out of a desire to play it safe, it was a different story behind the scenes on Green Lantern. Insider reports about heavy-duty reshoots in January , a last minute 3D conversion and the studio taking the final cut away from Campbell continued in the run-up to its release.
The ring constructs lack definition, but the emerald animation of race tracks, giant fists, and heavy artillery actually winds up being the most believable effect in the movie.
As for the other, non-human Lanterns, the CG is universally terrible. Posters for the film teased the extraordinary array of species that would feature in the film, but the effects seem to have limited what was possible. The nearest comparison would be to the overly digital look of the Star Wars prequels, but dimmer and less focused — it really takes the majesty out of it. The meddling led to a run-on post-production schedule.
Bad effects are all relative, but the fundamentally bad consequence of this really affects the other Green Lanterns within the story.
Sinestro and a few others show up after the fight is done, but having set them up as great warriors all the way through, this feels utterly wrong-footed.
These beats always take place early in a story and are quickly followed by a change of heart, often spurred by a tragic point of no return. The man who is chosen above all others on Earth to fearlessly defend our part of the galaxy spends most of the movie being passively ferried from one incident to the next by his magic ring, receiving pep talks from friends and family who really ought to be done with him by this point, and has quit his duty by the midpoint of the movie.
Yep, you read that right. Our hero quits before he even has to do anything. Only when he makes an appearance to save people at the Ferris Air party does Hal actually check his 37 missed calls to adventure and makes an active decision to do something.
Up until then, he make decidedly unheroic choices, like destroying millions of dollars worth of aircraft to prove a point that hobbles his own employers and, of course, quitting being a Green Lantern. Reynolds is charismatic and likeable as hell, and he tries his damnedest here, but compared to the brilliant on-the-spot performance of the Green Lantern oath he gave to a young fan at Comic Con in which won Reynolds the goodwill of all who live , his Hal is as mirthless and charmless as the script allows.
Clouds don't make for very threatening villains, resulting in uninspiring stakes for the lead character. Green Lantern would've been better off concentrating on Hector Hammond as the primary villain and exploring the schism in ideology between Hal Jordan and his mentor, Sinestro; rather than what happens in the finished movie, with Sinestro being supportive of Jordan as the end credits rolled, only to tack on an end credits scene showing Sinestro fashioning a yellow power ring out of nowhere.
Green Lantern sacrifices character development with Sinestro — and exploring him as a secondary villain — in favor of Hal Jordan fighting a giant, yellow cloud. Greg Berlanti, the writer-director-producer perhaps now most well-known for his 'Berlanti-verse' or as it's better known, the Arrowverse of CW shows, was once attached to write and direct Green Lantern.
Hector Hammond was to be the main villain, with no mention of Parallax which would have made for a more cohesive, driven storyline , and additional, fun cameos from the likes of Guy Gardner.
The abrupt shift in direction — and resultant effect on the screenplay rewritten by Michael Goldenberg were compounded by studio interference, which Campbell has been very vocal about. The result makes for a muddled, confused film, which isn't sure where its focus should lie; the romance between Jordan and Ferris; Jordan's training on Oa; his conflict with Hector Hammond; Hammond's conflict with his father; Jordan's conflict with Sinestro and his final confrontation with Parallax make for an overstuffed film which still ran less than two hours.
Perhaps if Berlanti were to have been able to steer his own vision and original script, fans would've ended up with a much more palatable big-screen Green Lantern. The director even told THR that he still " stands by " his unused script, and is saddened that his name is attached to the Martin Campbell film, of which he feels he had nothing to do with.
Sadly, audiences will never know whether the Berlanti version of Ryan Reynolds' Green Lantern could have been something great. Daniel Woburn has been a contributor to Screen Rant since He's been consuming comic books, movies and Buffy the Vampire Slayer like they were sunlight, ever since he was a sapling. Former alumni Adele once offered to roll him a cigarette. It's been 13 years, and he won't shut up about it.
By Daniel Woburn Published Jul 15, At another he pulls himself through outer space with a pair of green fighter jets. The problem is there really is nothing else. Green Lantern is a very faithful take on the DC Comics mythos about a league of intergalactic peacekeepers who use super-powered rings to fight injustice in the universe. Longtime Green Lantern comics writer Geoff Johns was a co-producer on the film and director Martin Campbell squeezed a ton of GL canon into his adaptation.
Arguably too much. The movie opens with an elaborate infodump narrated by Geoffrey Rush explaining at length the concept of a Green Lantern Corps of heroes drawn from all over the universe. It also introduces Parallax, the embodiment of fear that serves as a kind of arch-nemesis of the Green Lanterns who represent the power of will , and Hector Hammond Peter Sarsgaard , a super-villain with enormous mental powers which come from his enormous head.
Rather than focusing on the story of its human Green Lantern and slowly teasing this wider universe of action and mystery if not completely saving it for future movies once general audiences have bought in to the Green Lantern concept , the movie dives right in to all of the nerdiest stuff from the GL universe. Is it comics accurate? Actually, it is. But even before he becomes a superhero, Hal Jordan is a handsome test pilot with a fantastic apartment and a busy dating life.
Hector Hammond has a terrible mustache and looks older than his dad. Hal and Hector never feel like equals, and the vague allusions to their past encounters actually make their battles more confusing. The Green Lantern movie tried to inject a little flavor into the guy by casting Ryan Reynolds and by having him act like a typical Ryan Reynolds character: Snarky and cocky in a way that masks deeply buried pain.
Instead, they just make Hal sound really whiny.
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