13 Problems Nobody Wants To Admit About The DC Movie Universe

4. Green Lantern May Already Be Doomed

The Problem: 2011's Green Lantern was by most all accounts an abject disaster, a critical failure which just barely made its $200 million budget back. With Warner announcing a new Green Lantern reboot for 2020, however, the question will be this: have they already bummed more mainstream audiences out on the character, or will they be prepared to accept a new stab at the iconic superhero? How To Fix It: Given that the new Lantern movie comes almost a decade after the original, there's a good chance that more casual viewers will probably just forget it existed, and well, let's face it, comic book fans are going to watch the new movie regardless. The best thing the reboot can do is try and distinguish itself from what came before, and so though it might be cynical to say, the rumoured casting of Tyrese Gibson, a black man whose personality is a million miles away from Ryan Reynolds', is actually a pretty great idea. Reboots that come less than a decade after the original rarely succeed, but at least to casual viewers, the character isn't held in any precious regard, and so the movie could easily snag a previously un-tapped audience if it's good enough.