WB Wants More Green Lantern – Surprise To Some, Not To Others

It was a bit on the fence, but despite being the ‘most heavily marketed picture in WB history’ and bringing in ‘disappointing’ box office numbers (by Hollywood thinking), WB has decided to give the go ahead on Green Lantern 2.

According to The Hollywood Reporter:

Sources say Warners still believes in the franchise, even if the studio is “somewhat disappointed” with Green Lantern’s result.

Over the weekend, Green Lantern fell a steep 66% at the domestic box office, grossing $18.4 million for a cume of $89.3 million. That’s a big decline.

Warner Bros. president of domestic distribution Dan Fellman said the movie is settling in, pointing out that fanboy pics often see a significant drop-off in their second weekends

I, however, fall into the ‘not surprised’ category, because there needs to be other DC heroes other than Supes and Bats on a screen, at least one more. Also with a sequel they don’t need to mess with the origin story, they could expand out the corps a little, loads of possibilities. This is also not news to some because it was expected that this was budding to be a franchise.

As for the drop, yes, that is a shock – “all those fanboys out there” Who knew. No seriously- couldn’t someone just say that you knew Pixar’s Cars 2 was coming the next week?