I normally wouldn’t run something like this, but I thought Ryan Reynolds hit on a couple of important things when asked about the state of a Justice League film and whether or not he would return as Green Lantern if it got off the ground.
His first response was to credit the filmmaker, and secondly he acknowledged the difficulty in managing the superhero world. I was most interested when he said, “[W]orking on Green Lantern, I saw how difficult it is make that concept palatable, and how confused it all can be when you don’t really know exactly where you’re going with it or you don’t really know how to access that world properly.”
It makes me wonder just how exactly Warner Bros. had expected Martin Campbell and the Green Lantern screenwriters to approach the character with the 2011 movie. Did they give instructions to imply a world where potentially more heroes such as Hal Jordan (aka Green Lantern) exist or at least leave open the slightest window of possibility? Also, considering Warner Bros. has clearly benefit from the contributions of Christopher Nolan on The Dark Knight franchise who will they turn to if they do decide to move forward with Justice League?
You can listen to Reynolds’ full response on the Empire podcast (via DarkHorizons), where he also discusses the future of the Deadpool movie, which still seems to be stuck in limbo thanks to a hard-R script the studio (Fox) is unlikely to produce.
I don’t know. If you’re gonna do comic book movies [as big as Justice League], you really have to get them right. I believe that Joss Whedon is the guy that just nails it and Christopher Nolan obviously nails it. So if they were gonna do it like that, it would be an interesting thing to do.
It’s just that… working on Green Lantern, I saw how difficult it is make that concept palatable, and how confused it all can be when you don’t really know exactly where you’re going with it or you don’t really know how to access that world properly – that world comic book fans have been accessing for decades and falling in love with.
So at this point I have very little interest in joining that kind of world. But, you know, a great script and a good director can always turn that around.
