Hot on the heels of the JLA spin-off movie The Flash given the go-ahead, comes news from Variety that The Green Lantern is to get his own stand alone movie. Interestingly this one will feature the character of Hal Jordan and not the black version of the character John Stewart as will be seen in JLA. So is this movie in continuity with the Justice League or is it going the way of the Christian Bale and Brandon Routh by existing separately?
Warner Brothers have hired Greg Berlanti to write and direct the movie. He previously wrote and directed
The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy seven years ago and it remains his only feature film so far, though he has written and produced the t.v. shows
Dawson's Creek,
Everwood and
Brothers and Sisters. At 35, he is still fairly young for a director so let's hope he is hungry for success because there is nothing above that does anything to suggest he deserves this gig. Very strange isn't it? Warner Brothers have completely lost any hope in new concepts or hunting down the more obscure characters in their comic book back catalogue and are now going ahead with many movies of the same character at the same time? Two Flash movies (in their same continuity), Two Batman, Superman and Green Lantern movies (JLA and their own movies) could end up being extremely frustrating and confusing for the audience. Yeah they are finally getting use to comic book movies which has meant we will see the likes of this film,
Watchmen,
Super Max and
JLA on the big screen, but they are really not thinking long term here. What the hell is the rush? They are risking audience burn-out, audience confusing, and blowing their load for potential franchises later on when things have begun to run their course.