the green lantern speculative

[yellowdingo]

Guy Gardner.

[Bjørn Røyrvik]

We can only hope.

[Hama]

Idris Elba as John Stewart would be awesome.

[Grey Lensman]

Hama wrote:

Idris Elba as John Stewart would be awesome.

I prefer this option.

[Hama]

Stewart or Stuart? I always mix those two up.

[BPorter]

Hal Jordan or nothing.

[Imbicatus]

Alan Scott.

[Hama]

BPorter wrote:

Hal Jordan or nothing.

I always liked Jordan best, but I think that DC will want to distance themselves as much as possible from the fiasco that was Green Lantern (although I liked the movie, especially Sinestro, and Reynolds was good as Jordan)

[Grey Lensman]

Hama wrote:

BPorter wrote:

Hal Jordan or nothing.

I always liked Jordan best, but I think that DC will want to distance themselves as much as possible from the fiasco that was Green Lantern (although I liked the movie, especially Sinestro, and Reynolds was good as Jordan)

For me it is Kyle Rayner (who won me over by not having a clue to the fact that he couldn't affect yellow, so therefore he could: since retconed) and the 'from the Golden Age' version of Alan Scott.

I think the real problem with the GL movie was that the tried to do too much for one film, leaving too much to exposition rather than showing it in the actual movie. If they had stuck to Hector Hammond and Hal's training it would have been much, much better.

[Usual Suspect]

I agree, Grey. They tried to do too much. They also tried to write Hal Jordan too much like Kyle Rayner, and not enough like fearless AF test pilot Hal Jordan. The writers at Warner clearly do not understand the source material even though Time-Warner has owned DC for something like 50 years now.

[Freehold DM]

My hatred of kyle is considerable. He isn't a green lantern, he's a fanboy fantasy given the most powerful weapon in the universe in a long-running fan fiction that somehow got picked up by dc.

Jordan is a jerk, and I think Reynolds pulled that off well. I regularly thank the Lord for giving me two functioning hands so I can punch both Jordan and Rayner in the face at once.

Stewart is the only one of them that is a decent human being, although his flaws are harmed upon to excess by certain writers.

[Usual Suspect]

And the Green Lantern war has begun;

You're right. Jordan is a jerk the way he has usually been written. But so is Stewart (who screwed up and got a planet full of people killed), and so is Gardner (who is brain damaged and sociopathic). It's kind of a trait that strong willed and fearless people are prone too; at least the way the GL series has always been written. That's what makes Rayner different. He's strong willed, but not fearless. His fear of failure is what stops him from being a jerk like all the other Green Lanterns. You don't like him simply because he's not your Green Lantern. Hardly good evidence for which Lantern is the real one. They all are. The rings chose each of them.

I grew up reading Hard Traveling Heroes. Jordan was always my favorite DC character. I lived and breathed Green Lantern as a kid. The thing that still pisses me off is that they gave Hal Jordan a good death. After a complete fall from grace he clawed his way back to being a hero and sacrificed himself to save the world. But comic book writers and editors just can't leave well enough alone.

I have not read a single Green Lantern story since they resurrected Jordan. Why should I? There's no risk of death so nothing the characters do is heroic anymore. I like heroic stories, but when you get to have a Jesus moment anytime a new editor who grew up reading your character comes along who cares? Really pisses me off.

At least the X-Men make fun of the revolving door on Jean Grey's tombstone.

[Freehold DM]

Stewart hasn't been a jerk until recently. A screw up? Maybe. And lord knows the hal- loving writers ESPECIALLY will NEVER let us forget that Stewart is responsible for failing to save a planet. Which isn't too say that hal, Kyle, and guy haven't all had bad days. They've gotten tons of people killed- kyle *gave a ring* to a sociopath who killed thousands with it, but that never gets mentioned. Ever. Stewart's bad day will be repeated over and over and over and over again like a broken record because the hal and kyle fans need to remind us he is flawed.

[Benchak the Nightstalker]

My favorite Green Lantern move so far has been This One.

Something like that would be cool for a live action movie. Not the anthology format necessarily (I would dig it, but I know realistically it'll never happen), but a movie that focuses on the Green Lantern Corp as opposed to just Hal or John or Kyle.