Quote: The Time Trust said: I actually wouldn't mind seeing something like this... eventually.
It'd be nice if they laid some groundwork first, though. Maybe make two movies taking place in earlier decades first:
A golden age Green Lantern movie with radio personality Alan Scott to start out with (anyone have any casting suggestions?). Takes place during World War II or possibly in the late prewar era. Do something with the mystical nature of the ring and the lantern. Maybe Alan Scott could find the ancient jade lantern in China himself sometime during the 1930s before the Japanese invasion. Maybe play up the mystical old Orient aspects that we so rarely saw. Have him retire at the end of the movie now that the menace of the day (Nazis? Gangsters? Occultists?) is over.
Then a silver age Green Lantern movie starring Dennis Quaid as Hal Jordan taking place in the '50s during the height of the Cold War. Really play up the space opera aspects of the character. A lot of space shots, a lot of aliens. A huge action sequence with a large number of other Green Lanterns in CGI. Maybe end it with the destruction of the (almost) entire Green Lantern Corps in battle with a powerful foe... maybe Krona a thousand times powerful, with complete mastery over the emerald energy. Hal Jordan and almost all the other GLs get a fantastic death scene.
THEN do the one with Jack Black as comic-book artist Kyle Rayner. Maybe the last surviving Green Lantern Corps member has escaped to earth and is living in seclusion disguised as a human. He dies some 20-30 years after the destruction of the GLC but is compelled to find a worthy successor to pass on the ring and the lantern, but he does not do this too quickly at first because the menace of Krona is somehow still out there despite his physical body being destroyed. The Jack Black character is just a regular guy who possesses the most powerful weapon of mass destruction (and mass creation) in the world (if not the universe). Hilarity ensues.
Or make the third one first, then do the Hal Jordan movie, and then the Alan Scott one. I dunno. But I think a more "serious" version (or versions) of Green Lantern needs to be established before doing a Jack Black comedy movie.
I think the Jack Black GL movie would be even worse, then. The two first movies keep a serious tone and the third one is closer to a parody? I think that would be wasting a lot of good potential for a great trilogy. The third one would ruin the mood of the story. It would be like replacing Return of the Jedi with an in-continuity version of Space Balls.
