With all the buzz around Green Lantern lately (breifly overshadowed by the fall of the Spider) the question is how this film will fit in with other massively successful comic book adaptations.
Being DC Comics only other film on the market right now there is a lot of assumption that this will have to line up with the Batman films.
Collider quotes Campbell spelling it out:
“It will be much more in the tone of Iron Man. It’s got to be. Certainly not Batman Begins, which is a pretty dark movie. No, he’s the Hal Jordan character who’s the sort of shoot from the hip, irresponsible kind of cocky test pilot if you will. In fact, the character seems to be the least likely to be chosen as Green Lantern. Well, of course that’s the fun of it. So no, it’ll be much more like Iron Man. So it’ll have one foot in reality if you see what I mean.”
I like that the tone will be more light like in Iron Man, but I am hoping that they tone down the Reynolds snark. (save that for Deadpool)
Clearly with WB reluctantly moving its DC properties in line with what Marvel does (releasing separate character films building up to an ensemble film) they will want to keep Lantern in the same world as Batman. Realistic and modern with a “if there was a such thing as superheroes” angle. Keep the world around him real instead of every 3rd house on the block having radioactive spiders and arc reactors for high school science projects.
I am very much looking forward to seeing the Emerald Knight take on the big screen, and things are shaping up nicely.
Now if we could just see his outfit?
