8 Upcoming Comic Book Movies You Should Be Concerned About
3. Green Lantern Corps.
It's painfully obvious that even Warner Bros are concerned about this one.
It's set for release in July of 2020, making it the very last film in the currently announced DCEU-lineup, giving the studio plenty of time to build up as much audience goodwill as possible before hitting them with a property that last left a bad taste in everybody's mouths.
Warner Bros' lack of confidence is apparent, and it's hardly instilling faith in us as a result. 2011's Green Lantern was a big-budget disaster, living proof that the studio can't properly handle the character, and that was just with one lead 'Lantern' - and there're rumours that Green Lantern Corps. will feature three.
Three main heroes/protagonists? The last movie was a misfire with just one! Green Lantern Corps. is indicative of the sad state of the comic-book genre as a whole, wherein studios would rather shoehorn in as many characters as possible because that's currently 'what's hot', rather than building great stories around individual heroes, slowly, one film at a time.
The movie was announced in 2014 for release six years later - we don't have a director, actors or any other talent attached, and it's just floating in movie limbo. Was the movie announced just because, and the studio now has to race to put something together? Possibly. After all, the 'trio of Lanterns' approach really does sound like nobody has a single, firm idea in mind.