10 Upcoming DC Movies And The Comics They'll Adapt
2. Green Lantern Corps
Comics: Green Lantern: Rebirth by Geoff Johns & Ethan Van Sciver, Green Lantern by Geoff Johns, Ivan Reis, Doug Mahnke, Ethan Van Sciver, Carlos Pacheco, & Philip Tan, Green Lantern Corps by Dave Gibbons & Patrick Gleason, New 52 Green Lantern by Geoff Johns, Robert Venditti, Doug Mahnke, Christian Alamy, & Billy Tan, Green Lantern Corps by Peter Tomasi, Fernando Pasarin, Scott Hanna, Robert Venditti, & Van Jensen DC Rebirth Hal Jordan & The Green Lantern Corps by Robert Venditti & Rafa Sandoval
First things first, Green Lantern the film from 2011 does not exist (god help us if it does). With that out the way, lets gets down to business. There’s no two ways about it, the Green Lantern Corps movie begins and ends with the work done by Geoff Johns which began in 2004 and continued beyond his last issue as writer in 2013 with issue #20 of the New 52 series. Johns’s Green Lantern is incredible for 2 big reasons. Firstly, the series blended and retconned older continuity with current continuity is an incredibly satisfying way, and secondly, Pushed the Green Lantern mythos into new heights so lofty, that if adapted to film properly could eclipse Star Wars.
Nearly every iconic Green Lantern story was written by Geoff Johns during his 9 year stint as writer of the series, the iconic stories not penned by Johns himself are heavily reliant on the work done by Johns, and even the great stories that came before Johns’s time as writer, were more likely than not, retconned by Johns in such a way that it elevated the original work.
There is no question that the Green Lantern Corps movie will work to adapt Geoff Johns’s work. Not only did he write the best Green Lantern Stories, they’re incredibly reader friendly and therefore make a great way to introduce film audiences to the character for the first time (2011 does not count since it doesn’t exist).
And there are so many incredible events throughout the series that could make for fantastic finales to either a set of films, or as huge crossover events on a similar scale to Infinity War and Endgame, if Warner Bros. and DC are still set on crafting their own interconnected cinematic universe. Here’s to Green Lantern #50 arriving in theaters in 2115!