Hey folks, Harry here with a letter from 'Hal' detailing the latest buzz he's heard on the GREEN LANTERN film and a request for further digging from me. The key element that I seem to have dug up at the moment is that GREEN LANTERN seems to be set up with EAGLE COVE ENTERTAINMENT at the moment and not Joel Silver Productions. Recently that production company has produced DEEP BLUE SEA, THE FAMILY MAN and DUETS... while they also have properties like STARSKY AND HUTCH, TOMCATS, THE SANDMAN (along with Peters Entertainment) and even a remake for BULLIT (like that needs to happen) When last reported to the world the screenplay was in the hands of Gary Scott Thompson, who has written THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS and did rewriting duties on HOLLOW MAN. I'm hoping for the best out of this project... I mean on my desk is that big DC direct Green Lantern lantern with Hal Jordan atop it. I'm a huge GL freak (pre-Guy Gardner... sorry) Let's hope that if this ever does get made, it gets made correctly by people that love the property. Here's our Prisoner's rumor filled letter that got me started....
Hey Harry,
You know the drill...longtime reader, first-time submission =)
The scope of my 'fanboy bandwidth' is usually limited to LOR, anything David Lynch or Terry Gilliam, and classic comic book characters -
which segues nicely into my possible 'scoop'...
I normally wouldn't embarrass myself by submitting a 'friend-of-a-friend' story, but I have been a diehard GREEN LANTERN fan for 25 of my 30 years on this rock, and if the info is accurate then I wanna see this happen! From what I hear, SILVER PICTURES has received a treatment for a GL FEATURE that could truly be something special.
Apparently the story isn't about a cartoonish baddie, or the wacky things HAL can make with his ring, but about SACRIFICE, WILLPOWER, and the responsibilities of great power. The only tidbits I could get were that the 'foe' is a branch of the military-industrial complex with a weapon that's running amok and causing earth-threatening damage, and that some other members of the GL CORPS show up at the end to witness Hal Jordan's 'victory'. Some mention of wicked CG sequences too, which this DC/WARNER property is just RIPE for!!!
God, I can't tell you how much the prospect of such a thing excites me...
GREEN LANTERN? SILVER PICTURES??? An EPIC story that won't be geared to 8-13 year olds???
Please, oh HeadGeek, use your great powers of influence and bullshit detection to see if there's any truth to this.
In the Brightest Day...
"Hal"
