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If you liked it then you should have put a Lantern Ring on it

NYCC: Geoff Johns Wants a Green Lantern Sequel, Cites a Superior Director’s Cut

by Jamie Frevele | 3:59 pm, October 16th, 2011


In spite of its lackluster reviews and severe box office drop-off after a disappointing opening, DC‘s creative officer Geoff Johns is still crossing his fingers for a sequel to Green Lantern. His defense? There was much better stuff in the director’s cut. You know, everyone, the first Austin Powers movie didn’t do that great in theaters and was huge on home video and look how great that turned out! (Okay, that’s probably not a fair comparison.)

We kind of already knew that a Green Lantern sequel might happen, however there was no real defense as to why this movie should be getting a second chance. But Johns, speaking at New York Comic Con, said that Martin Campbell‘s director’s cut of the movie — which will be available on DVD and Blu-ray tomorrow — contains scenes that better flesh out characters and explain some of the actions they took in the theatrical version of the film. (Including the parts where you may have thought, “Was there an entire scene that was cut out that I missed?” The answer is “yes, there were several.”) Screen Rant notes that Marvel‘s Daredevil had a very similar situation. It is entirely possible that Green Lantern is really a great movie worthy of a sequel. This is what Johns is hoping for.

“There is the hope that we will eventually see ['Green Lantern 2']… I hope that the character gets another film, and it will be live-action again – I guarantee… There was a lot of really good stuff in [Campbell's] movie.”

Ryan Reynolds has already agreed to return to play Hal Jordan in the sequel, should such a sequel happen. The big question is how much we want to trust Geoff Johns’ word. Well, at least now if we want to give Green Lantern another shot, we won’t have to leave home to do it!

(via Screen Rant)

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  • Anonymous

    Considering a director’s cut will probably keep all the mediocre scenes I saw in theatres, I’d rather DC sink their money in a fun character like Zatanna or Captain Marvel.  (And since the movie decided its moral was Hal discovering how to fight fear instead of Hal learning to work with a team, I have trouble seeing the director’s cut being that much better without removing as much as it puts in.)

    But Johns loves him some Hal, so I’m sure he’ll be pulling for more Lantern films until they lure him away with promises of bringing back another silver age character to replace a perfectly decent current incarnation.

  • Anonymous

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  • http://twitter.com/jamestownefan Laura

    Isn’t the original film technically a ‘Director’s cut’ anyway?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=742530231 Amanda Jean Carroll

    Wouldn’t this mean more time watching Ryan Reynolds pretend to act? 

  • http://twitter.com/johnhefner johnhefner

    I can verify that the Daredevil director’s cut was far superior to the theatrical release. It wasn’t a perfect movie by any stretch, but I think it was on par with the first Spider-Man and X-Men films. Which is to say, it’s still a seriously flawed film, but a watchably entertaining one with enough promise for a sequel to improve upon.

  • Anonymous

    You know, I actually liked the Green Lantern movie. It wasn’t great. It didn’t redefine the genre. But it was a watchable, fairly fun version of the lantern mythos and I would actually really like to see another movie done with their Lantern Corps. However, I tend to think that the movie didn’t need more scenes to expand or explain, it needed more cut. It was trying to be three different movies at once, and only two of each seemed to mesh. I’d have been entirely on board with the Hector-Hal movie mixed with the Parallax-Corps movie. 

  • Anonymous

    I actually would love to see a sequel. While the movie was not the most epic ever, it is a far cry better than most people claim it is.

  • http://twitter.com/InfiniteMidlife CrisisOn∞Midlives

    Is the Director’s Cut going to be available on Netflix or similar?  I haven’t seen the theatrical release and I’d prefer to watch the new version first, before I sink money into a DVD or Blu-Ray.

  • Anonymous

    But of course Johns would be lobbying for a sequel. He had a lot of input into the movie and a lot of ideas were taken straight out of his interpretation of the character. I also personally think that Johns has a lot to lose if the DC brand doesn’t take off in other media soon. Warner is gambling a lot on the New 52. With the poor showing of GL, if Man of Steel fails to perform or New 52 sales drop back to previous levels, DC’s creative management could be be in a lot of trouble by SDCC ’12.

    …

    A lot.

  • Anonymous

    Technically, yes. But in reality the producers or the financial backers can have a really strong hand in the editing of a film if they want to flex their muscle. If a movie tests badly with focus groups or gets stung by the MPAA, producers can basically force the directors to re-cut a movie in a way that the directors wouldn’t have chosen otherwise.

  • Anonymous

    Reynolds is a decent actor, and he uses these big paychecks to help finance smaller movies like Buried, which takes place completely in a coffin, and he was able to pull that off.

    The main problem I had with Reynolds as GL was mostly his body type. He just doesn’t LOOK like Hal Jordan in any sense. I think he would have made a much better Guy Gardner. And a couple years back there was a rumor that he’d be starring as Wally West as The Flash. I always thought that would have been a much better choice for him.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1705628571 Nichole Filbert

     ”Considering a director’s cut will probably keep all the mediocre scenes I
    saw in theatres, I’d rather DC sink their money in a fun character like
    Zatanna or Captain Marvel.”

    Or like, I don’t know, shot in the dark here: Wonder Woman. Let’s get some female super heroes on the screen.

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