{"id":858,"date":"2008-08-04T22:13:09","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T02:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=858"},"modified":"2012-11-14T15:19:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T19:19:04","slug":"green-lantern-on-the-fast-track-without-jack-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/04\/green-lantern-on-the-fast-track-without-jack-black\/","title":{"rendered":"GREEN LANTERN On The Fast Track Without Jack Black?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/greenlantern.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2077\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" title=\"Green Lantern\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/greenlantern-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"greenlantern\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The last time we heard about a <strong>Green Lantern <\/strong>movie, Jack Black was in talks to play the lead and it was written by Robert Smigel as a comedy. Fans were in an uproar and that version of the project died a merciful death.<\/p>\n<p>But the idea of a <strong>Green Lantern <\/strong>movie didn&#8217;t die. As a matter of fact, it might have just been put on the fast track.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.productionweekly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Production Weekly <\/a>has this listing for\u00a0<strong>Green Lantern:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>STATUS &#8211; Development<br \/>\nPRODUCER: Donald De Line &#8211; Andrew Haas WRITER: Greg Berlanti &#8211; Marc Guggenheim &#8211; Michael J Green<br \/>\nDC COMICS 1700 Broadway New York, NY 10019<br \/>\nWARNER BROS. PICTURES 4000 Warner Blvd. Burbank, CA 91522-0001<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Each sector of space is protected by a Green Lantern, possessing a power ring that uses a powerful green energy to do anything within the limits of the user&#8217;s imagination and will power. When the Green Lantern assigned to this sector of space finds himself dying on planet Earth, he tells the ring to find a suitable successor. The chosen replacement, hot-shot test pilot Hal Jordan, finds himself with a new job he never expected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This could very well be another result of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/11\/warners-dc-talk-comic-book-movies\/\" target=\"_blank\">confab between DC and parent company Warner Brothers<\/a>a few weeks ago. This version seems to skew closer to the comic book mythos than the Black\/Smigel version. In the latter, Black played a stock boy at a big box store, not a test pilot. This a good sign for fans who were wanting a more serious take on the concept.<\/p>\n<p>And I think a serious take is what <strong>Green Lantern <\/strong>needs. This property has the potential of being a big success with the non-comic savvy crowd. If played right, it could be a space opera on the level of <strong>Star Wars<\/strong>, mixed with the awe and wonder of <strong>Harry Potter<\/strong> and edge of <strong>The Dark Knight<\/strong>. <strong>Green Lantern <\/strong>is wish fulfillment of the highest order, which is what moviegoers seem to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Via: Latino Review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The last time we heard about a Green Lantern movie, Jack Black was in talks to play the lead and it was written by Robert Smigel as a comedy. Fans were in an uproar and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/04\/green-lantern-on-the-fast-track-without-jack-black\/\" title=\"GREEN LANTERN On The Fast Track Without Jack Black?\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[31,174,172,175],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-comicsandfilm","7":"tag-comics-and-film","8":"tag-dc-comics-characters","9":"tag-green-lantern","10":"tag-warner-brothers"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}