New Animated Green Lantern To Change The Mythology

By Skott Stotland on 06.23.2009

Prepare yourselves, for you might not be able to handle this. Those with weak disposition should probably stop reading now, because with the upcoming Green Lantern: First Flight animated feature massive changes are coming. This in an alteration to the character that I, for one, am shocked that anyone could even consider. Though given writer Alan Burnett’s pedigree (SuperFriends, Batman, Superman, Static Shock, Batman Beyond and The Batman. Seriously, the guy’s been writing DC cartoons since fucking SuperFriends.), I’m willing to see where he’s going with this.

“I knew the development people over here at Warner Brothers were looking for a take on Green Lantern, and they were having difficulty coming up with one,” Burnett said in a recent interview. “I was driving my car, just thinking about it, when suddenly an idea occurred to me, and I called them up and said, ‘Have you ever tried this?’ They said, ‘No. Go with that.’ And that’s how it got into it.”
And what would that idea be?
“What I did in the script was just anchor the Green Lanterns into a police force and think of their sectors as precincts.”

The Green Lanterns as a police force?!? Their sectors as precincts?!? Are you fucking kidding me? That’s not a change, that’s the Storytelling Engine. That’s what the Green Lantern Corps is. They’re Space Cops, Burnett, that’s what they are. How in the name of Alan Moore’s Beard didn’t you get that?

Gah, I need to calm down, think positive thoughts. Since they’re making police comparisons and the plot does involve rookie Hal Jordan being partnered with Sinestro (who is also shown in his Yellow Lantern uniform in the trailer), this could be that Training Day-inspired take on a Green Lantern: Year One-type story I’ve always thought would work. Even though it’s a movie about Hal, it also focuses heavily on alien Green Lanterns. I really dig the costume and character designs. And Ch’p is in it, so my DVD is already bought.

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7 Comments


 
2009-06-23 17:06:01
Zombiezeus
I think he must be kidding. He had to couch it to the STUDIO in a way that they hadn't thought of before. And it doesn't surprise me in the SLIGHTEST that the studio directly producing these things is not aware of what has come before. I've said it before and I'll say it again: studios are not run by creative people, they're run by money people, who are hired to be creative about how money is spent, saved, and earned. They wouldn't know G'Nort from g'night.

 
2009-06-23 17:06:02
Martini D
Hal Jorden Green Lantern of sector 2814...
Seriously how do you do DC for nearly 40 years and not know the very reason for the Corps. existence?

 
2009-06-23 18:06:13
Shailar
"this could be that Training Day-inspired take on a Green Lantern: Year One-type story I’ve always thought would work."

Uh... didn't you read the 6 part Emerald Dawn 2 mini-series by Keith Giffen and drawn by MD Bright (same guy as Emerald dawn 1).

It's ok. Apparently Google and Wikipedia haven't heard of it either.

 
2009-06-23 19:06:26
Skott Stotland
I very likely did miss it, as I'm not really a big Hal fan and tend to prefer GL books that focus on other Lanterns. But since I am a huge Giffen fan and the concept sounds like something I'd dig I'll check it out.

 
2009-06-24 05:06:18
mramazing


Maybe i he was joking?? It seems like he was joking???

Can't wait for this. I have become a big GL fan and although i'm a Kyle fan I dig Hal as well.


 
2009-06-25 07:06:54
torchbearer
John was shoved down our throats, they could of used black lightning for the token black hero, and made gl Hal in the animated series, that would of made many many many people happy.

John Stewart has always been a 2nd rate GL, he let Xannshi get destroyed, he killed his kid sister and mentally crippled himself, and then when the creative teams took away his two flaws, they ruined him.  Now fatality has 'forgiven' him, and loves him. He became a vessel for the void hound. John is usel

 
2009-06-25 11:06:04
TSUtv
i hope there are some Jon Stewart cameos in it...

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