WB Grabs Berlanti to Helm GREEN LANTERN

Hopefully, this won't be a comedy like the once planned Jack Black version.

Was that for real ?

I always thought that it was just a stupid rumor. Maybe my mind was just trying to protect me from the horrible truth that someone had actually considered it.

It was for real alright. Now you know what kind of people are running things over at Warner Brothers. But it's not like we are out of the woods yet, they have just brought in the director of Wedding Crashers to direct The Flash.

Look, I don't know about you (???), but I felt that The Wedding Crashers was overhyped, largely unfunny and over long. In addition, as far as all the so-called bawdyness that the movie promised, the sexual watershed moments that the media claimed were shocking and never witnessed before in modern movies...where the hell was that stuff...save for 3 or 4 quick nude breast shots??? I've seen the censored and the uncensored versions, and nothing like that ever showed. I would suggest the movie Sex Monster if you want to see anything remotely fitting those descriptions, that has been produced in the last 15 years.

Listen, as with Sex Monster...the old Tom Hanks film Bachelor Party was better than Wedding Crashers, by leaps and bounds. As well, the two films that I just recommended were truly sexually explicit...and truly jaw droppingly funny!!! Wedding Crashers was just barely cute, and at other times, it was downright misogynistic...and thus, cruel.

Not sure how the Green Lantern thread turned into a Wedding Crashers critique... but I was of the opinion that the movie lost all of my interest when it moved to that crazy island. It didn't pick back up again until Will Ferral showed up to save the day.

Back on topic... This is another movie announcement that just makes me go "WTF???" Is this seriously the same minds behind Batman Begins? Everything that is said about JLA, WW, Flash, and the new Superman really just seems like someone said "Okay, we really need to ruin every comic book property we have. How can we do that in the most efficient way possible?"

In regard to Wedding Crashers, I was just pointing out that it was not a great movie...or even outrageously funny as advertised. It was a cut and paste job for the most part: A series of vignettes, that seemed desperately improvised.

Well, I don't call that good movie making...and now this guy is directing the Flash??? It is as awkward a match as when Warner tried to pawn McG on us for Superman. You'd think they'd select someone like Jonathan Mostow (Terminator 3), Nick Cassavetes (The Note Book), Joss Whedon (Serenity), or James McTeigue (V For Vendetta).

I'm glad the movie is focusing on the Hal Jordan Green Lantern. The writing on the shows Berlanti's been involved with is (or was) always pretty good, so I hope the script will be good. Will it be an origin tale, and if so will it be set in the past or present? I'd like to see it set in the past with a retro feel to it.

I guess that what Warner is doing is basically making JLA the pilot movie to branch out to all these super heroes solo projects. I woul've rather they introduce them seperately first and then do the JLA flick. I'm still holding out hope for these projects although I'm not sure they'll pull it off with the way they seem to be rushing everything.
I thought the Flash movie was supposed to be a comedy or at least comedic.
Hopefully it will be an origin tale. It seems that these are usually pretty fun as they learn to cope with their new found powers and lets you set up that particular heroes' universe and villains. But since JLA is due first we have to wait and see how much is going to be revealed about each hero first.

It looks like DC/Warner is following the Marvel Studios plan. They are mining their reservoir of comics material and assigning it to different people for movie development.
Seems like a reasonable thing to do with all that literature available. Whether they are giving these projects to the right people remains to be seen. Did it say somewhere they are doing the Hal Jordan GL and that it will be serious SF tone? I hope they are. It would be the proper way.
I haven't seen any of Greg Berlanti's work or David Dobkin's Wedding Crashers (It pops up on HBO and it's in the middle of it but I want to see it from the beginning.) so I can't say what they're like. Wait and see.
I did see Sex Monster, though. If that's the one starring Mike Binder and Mariel Hemingway. It was hilarious.

Sex Monster: Yep, that's the one alright. Due to the fact that it only had a small budget...and I think if the film had a better title, it would have been more widely championed. Wedding Crashers had a great title and a seemingly good concept, but after the initial one note joke...it was just When Harry Met Sally in tone. However...Sex Monster was a great concept and a great movie that transcended the promising set-up to become a great sex comedy...and I do mean "great sex". That said, I really think it deserves a faithful remake and a cleaver title change.

WELL it's time for me to speak up. I guess I missed something because I didn't see any mention of wedding crashers up there. BUT IT's funny, unless you're TOO MATURE, or SOPHISTICATED, but it was F U N N Y. Not a movie to promote world peace and understanding, I like comedies, and comedians. I know on this site it's cool to bash current comedians, but I guess I'm not cool so I loved it. BUT How the F did this turn into a Wedding Crashers critique. I thought this thread was about GL. If WB keeps this up they might be on the right track. Release the solo hero movies first then bring them all together in a few years.