10 Mistakes Fanboys Won’t Admit Upcoming DC Movies Have Already Made
7. The Stand-Alone Green Lantern Is The Wrong Approach
Green Lantern comics fanboys are a lot like Marvels Fantastic Four fans: they recognise the importance of the comic books to the publishing brand, perhaps without acknowledging whether the source suits adaptation. Popularity does not inherently suggest adaptability, after all. The two elements are occasionally entirely arbitrary. For Green Lantern, fanboy logic would suggest that anything that has sold as many comics as the Corps has will work on screen. Theyll also probably explain away the Ryan Reynolds atrocity as a false prophecy, and say a new film deserves consideration in its own terms. But thats not true: Green Lantern is a difficult character who needs to be approached the same way Marvel have approached both Hulk and Punisher. Both iconic characters, neither satisfyingly worked on screen, and taking a lead from both to bring Green Lantern in to Justice League first is the right approach and slowly seeding is better than spinning off too quickly. Whether there should even be a stand-alone at all is another matter for debate entirely.
