Comic Movie Previews Revisited

Why Fanboys Are Excited:
The idea itself is actually quite good. There is tremendous flexibility with the character (we’re picturing him imagining a 600 foot-tall rabid Bruce Lee with machine guns for legs, ending any conflict in a hail of cacophonous gunfire and screeching chicken noises). In the hands of the right creative team it could be really, really cool.

Why Fanboys Will Be Disappointed:

The studio, however, had a different idea. They hired a man named Greg Berlanti to write and direct the film. Name sound familiar? No, it doesn’t. Don’t lie to the Internet. Berlanti thus far has directed one movie: The Broken Hearts Club, a romantic comedy about a group of young, hip friends with relationship troubles whose tagline is “The shortest distance between friends isn’t always a straight line.”

His previous writing credits include Dawson’s Creek and Everwood, two teen dramas that we assume are notorious for their epic super-powered battle scenes. Based on these credentials, expect the new Green Lantern film to imagine up some slightly-larger-than-usual vanilla lattes and tickets to the Plain White T’s concert in order to impress his high school sweetheart, Dakota, after which he will most likely imagine an awkward handjob in the back of a Toyota Celica.

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