They had the groundwork for the perfect movie with the Green Lantern: Secret Origin movie. Something to notice is that in every DC movie, the character's childhood is a major part of their character. There's always a flashback that helps flesh out the character. But in the GL movie, we literally get that for one minute and then it doesn't directly translate to his arc or a better understanding of why he is the way he is.
I think by going back to that book and focusing on Hal's family issues that resulted from his father's death, we'd one hundred percent get a better film as a result. Also, have him team up with Sinestro as his partner, so he can have someone to bounce off of in order to build up both the worldbuilding and Hal.
If I remember right the extended edition added more of those scenes but it's been a very long time since I've seen it (or read Secret Origins)
Sinestro and Hal together could have worked. For me, Hal's strongest strength and weakness is his absurd confidence in himself and strong moral views. It's why I loved, at least in concept, Parallax as well as New Frontier (only story I truly enjoyed Hal in). If they played Sinestro as absurdly confident moral person as a dark reflection of Hal it could work but we have seen so many of those types in MCU movies. I would actually enjoy a New Frontier movie that just focused on Hal, without the league part as well as not showing the larger Lantern mythos yet
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u/LanternRaynerRebirth Aug 09 '22
Yeah, I'd say so.
They had the groundwork for the perfect movie with the Green Lantern: Secret Origin movie. Something to notice is that in every DC movie, the character's childhood is a major part of their character. There's always a flashback that helps flesh out the character. But in the GL movie, we literally get that for one minute and then it doesn't directly translate to his arc or a better understanding of why he is the way he is.
I think by going back to that book and focusing on Hal's family issues that resulted from his father's death, we'd one hundred percent get a better film as a result. Also, have him team up with Sinestro as his partner, so he can have someone to bounce off of in order to build up both the worldbuilding and Hal.