Now, however, it’s become quite clear WBD isn’t going to put top dollar investment into IP like Green Lantern as a streaming series, and as much as I love the Arrowverse I feel Green Lantern needs far bigger budgetary commitment and sweeping creative freedom to achieve its fullest potential, something simply not possible anymore through a lower-budget HBO Max show under current WBD leadership demands. When Green Lantern was announced as a longform series for HBO Max, I was enthusiastic because I love longform storytelling, I feel Berlanti had an eye toward making the series as large-scale and mythic as possible, and I was hopeful that all signs pointed to a big-budget commitment based on the leadership of former WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar, whose enthusiasm for making HBO Max a top-tier streamer seemed destined to deliver a wonderful high-quality stable of major IP films and series. As long as WBD leadership is unenthusiastic about bigger spending and planning for HBO Max’s future (and any PR talking points aside, that’s frankly what WBD has signaled time and again), a Green Lantern series intended for the streamer will continue to linger and slow-roll its way toward a less ambitious vision.īut that’s not the fault of the creators involved, who will find themselves inevitably hampered by limitations imposed on their artistic desires, and so there is a much better option available for them and for the Green Lantern IP itself if incoming DC Studios co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran take the bold initiative to ask Berlanti to redevelop his project as a massive multi-trilogy-spanning film franchise with Star Wars as a major source of spiritual inspiration. And it’s a far superior approach than insisting on a budget-slashed streaming series on a service that’s been increasingly hamstrung by cuts and write-downs and completely changed studio planning to reverse course from building a massive major streamer. This is the stuff of cinematic legend, the sort of approach that could spawn one of the biggest and longest-running superhero franchises in cinema history, if it’s done right. Gary Gray as the full slate of directors across two trilogies. Imagine if Steven Spielberg could be tempted to direct the first film (he’s long insisted he’d never make a Star Wars movie because those are George Lucas’ beloved IP, but maybe he’d like the chance to sink his teeth into his own version of a space opera like this), along with Jeymes Samuel aka The Bullitts, Ava DuVernay, Antoine Fuqua, Chloé Zhao, and F. Imagine the big-budget spectacle and power of each Green Lantern Corps film within a larger trilogy akin to the way Star Wars is a series of grand trilogies. Imagine loose adaptions of the very best Green Lantern comic book stories (including what I’ve long argued are the absolute best all-time Lantern tales - and all-around some of the greatest comic book stories - by Geoff Johns). Then imagine Tom Cruise or Bradley Cooper as Hal Jordan, the grizzled space veteran returned to Earth after too many years in the trenches (so to speak) and desperate to find a new champion to stand by his side and take over command of the Green Lantern Corps. Imagine for example the phenomenal performer Stephan James or John Boyega in the role of John Stewart, a military man with tremendous moral fortitude and courage, who has already dedicated his life to fighting the good fight and protecting humanity.
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