Congrats WB you finally got somewhere ahead of Disney. You’re the first to reboot your franchise. Now don’t repeat your past failures and you might…MIGHT…win your audience back. But that future is not bright…with the new Superman movie on the horizon already getting panned by the Internet community. Can it be saved by Green Lanterns’ Light?
With what little information available on the show itself, I wanted to talk about the likely-hood of success, and what needs to be avoided. For a full breakdown of what we know, I’ll provide a couple of links:
TV Guide: Everything to Know About HBO’s Green Lantern TV Series Lanterns
Variety: ‘Lanterns’: HBO’s DC Studios Series Casts Ulrich Thomsen as Sinestro
Until I saw the news about Sinestro being cast…I didn’t know this show was even in the work. I’m kind of a fan of Green Lantern, not because of the comics, or past films…I’m a fan because I saw a fan trailer for a fictional Green Lantern film that cast Nathan Fillion as Hal Jordan. I saw that and went, “Yes.”
Since then I’ve been waiting for him to be cast in the role. I got my wish–kind of–when Fillion was the voice actor of Hal Jordan Green Lantern in a DC animated feature film: Green Lantern: Emerald Knights. I watched that, learned about the Green Lantern Corps, and took a liking to them. Also, Green Lantern…if you know, you know. 😉
I’m gonna be paying more attention to this because, so far, all we have is the casting of three primary characters, but little in the way of plot. No sign of Fillion, even though he’s supposed to play a Green Lantern in Superman. The HBO series fate may be tied to the success or failure of Superman, but then again, maybe not.
Superman may flop, in which case, this show may never get made. Superman may be a huge success…which might get James Gunn out from under the…insert obvious pun. If that second option happens, there’s still a long way to go; but as long as WB doesn’t screw up, we could have a cool new show to watch.
Here’s what WB needs to avoid:
- Letting the actors talk
- Letting the show runners talk
- Letting the directors talk
- Making something completely different but slapping Green Lantern on the product label.
I could go on, but you get the idea. WB needs to NOT do the things that Disney does.
Here’s what WB needs to do:
- Follow the source material (golden age, please)
- Honor the source material
- Pay attention to what made people love the source matieral.
- Talk to the fans like they know more than you about the source matieral.
Got it WB? Do that and you might overcome “Superhero Fatigue,” which we all know is just, “Crap fatigue.”
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