This establishes Jordan as a freewheeling playboy, someone who is good with women but has to sprint to work in the morning because he forgot to set his alarm. He immediately hops out of bed, abandoning her in favor of heading out to work. The very first time we see Hal Jordan, he's in bed with a random blonde with whom he just had awesome, anonymous, beautiful-people sex. Either this is the work of a very clever editor, or there isn't a single original moment in the entire trailer.Has it happened? Have we exhausted the genre? Is it time to stop making superhero movies? Let's take a closer look at the Green Lantern trailer and its similarities to every other superhero movie. For the first time ever, I can't tell if I'm watching a trailer or a combination of clips from every other superhero movie ever shot. In addition to being yet another movie to feature gratuitous shots of Ryan Reynolds' abs, like, the Green Lantern movie distinguishes itself in another way. The hook with Green Lantern should be “guy finds a ring and is sucked into an alien war”, but they do it the other way round in the trailer.The trailer for next summer's Green Lantern movie hit the Internet in the face earlier this week, like a giant green fist. They go straight for the story hook: Thor cast out of Asgard. But the Thor trailers don’t mess about explaining the concept. Granted, with Thor, there’s the advantage that literally everyone knows the character, even if they don’t know Marvel’s version. The question is whether that’s the movie they’ve made, and whether the trailer sells it effectively. The details of the back story don’t matter at this You’re right that it ought to be possible to make a Green Lantern movie which appeals to the same audience that went to see Thor. The key points that the trailer needed to hit are (1) this is a film about a guy who gets a magic ring and goes off to fight in a crazy alien war, and (2) it’s going to be awesome. My prediction: the movie will do moderately well – probably opening in the $50k-$60k range – but it won’t be blockbuster material like the first Iron I agree that the casual audience aren’t familiar with the character but it doesn’t follow that the trailer needs to lay out the back story. Subsequent viewings will then rely on whether there is good word of mouth about the actual plot, script, special effects, etc., again just as was the case with the first Iron Man movie. Like the first Iron Man movie, which also relied on a relatively unknown property, the initial draw for most audience members will be the main actor involved (in IM’s case, Robert Downey Jr.) and seeing how Ryan Reynolds handles his first major solo superhero movie. For the fans, the trailers are reassurance that they are being faithful to the source material. Theres no confirmation yet on the director or who will be cast as Jordan or Stewart. The CGI is unavoidable in a movie like this but the true trick is how the use of the rings and green energy is shown and these trailers satisfy me in that regard.įor the average audience member unfamiliar with the comic books, it’s an unknown character and property so the trailers really have to spoon-feed it to them rather than just rely on movie posters or billboards showing Ryan Reynolds in the green suit. Green Lantern Corps is rumored to be a 'Lethal Weapon -style' buddy cop movie in space centering on Hal Jordan and John Stewart as the Green Lanterns of space sector 2814, which is where Earth is located. I was very skeptical after the first trailer and costume reveal last year but I’ve become more excited with each new trailer. A lot of people have no idea what GL is, so to show them EXACTLY what this film will be, including how graphic the demise of the villains will be (absorbed into Parallax, Parallax contained in a giant ring prison by the Guardians for Sinestro to use in the next movie?), is WB’s prerogative. If they want to spell out the entire film with their trailers they have every right to. Bye bye Hammond.įrom the trailer I’d even wager that they’re going to tie Legion WHOOPS I mean Parallax’s origin in with the Guardians, seeing as how at the beginning of the trailer it shows one of the Guardians tall seats is broken, then later when they show Parallax glowing in yellow his bone structure looks similar to the Guardians’.Īll of this is fine, btw. Legion WHOOPS I mean Parallax makes it to Earth, absorbs Hammond into it. They’ve shown us his involvement with Aben Sur’s body, which has a little bit of Legion WHOOPS I mean Parallax in him or something, which infects Hammond. I already know Hector Hammond’s entire plot line throughout the film. This trailer was a lot of fun for me (I’m not a GL fan, btw, but I’ve come to know much about him), but the marketing plan for this film has been perplexing. Both are crazy, FX-heavy scifi fantasy films with attractive lead actors. The way I see Green Lantern is this- If people are interested in seeing Thor, which they are, as the box office can attest, then people will be interested in Green Lantern. The voice over in the trailer is by Geoffrey Rush (The King’s Speech, Pirates of the Caribbean), who voices Tomar Re in the movie.
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