How DC can make "Green Lantern" even greater than "Guardians of the Galaxy"
DC had one unsuccessful "Green Lantern" movie,but they are planning to reboot it.With 200 million dollars budget the movie ended up being bad and made people hate the Green Lantern character.With the same budget last year Marvel made "Guardians of the Galaxy " and that movie ended up bringing over 750 million dollars to Marvel.With some great ideas and story lines that exist already in comics DC can make "Green Lantern" not only into their cash cow but also expand their universe as Marvel did.
First we have to admit the "Green Lantern" movie kinda sucked.DC needs the reboot to be awesome in order for the GL universe to gain the recognition it deserves.What Guardians of the Galaxy are for Marvel goes for Green Lantern Corps. They open the door to the vast DCU which presents new possible treats for our eartly heroes.Mainly the GL universe brings threats of the scale as Thanos is bringing to the future Avengers.The Infinity War is a big part of Marvel movie strategy and all movies set in the Marvel universe will lead to that scenario.
DC have couple of global universal threats they can use for they split in two movies.Couple of them come from the Green Lanterns. The Blackest Night/Brightest Day is one of the most interesting comics I have read alongside the Court of Owls.
My thoughts are that they should either use The Blackest night/Brightest Day storyline in the Green Lantern reboot or make it the main event in the Justice League as I see the movie is split in two and each part of the event can be into a separete movie.Blackest night is the first movie,and brightest day second Justive league movie.It has all DC heroes involved from all the universe so it is perfect for such a movie.But such an event relies on a good GL presentation. Good thing DC can do is start to put easter eggs in each of their upcoming movies.William Hand is a petty Hal Jordan villain and is the main antagonist in the event.He starts small and eventually ends up creating the event.So they can put him as a small role in BVS where we only see like a bank robber with the tags WH or something else.My point is they put him in each movie and at a point the action goes past him and we see him slowly progressing.By that time they can already see if audiences will pick up and if they would be on board and choose wether to put Blackest Night/Brightest Day as a Justice league movie,or just use Blackest NIght for the Green Lantern reboot and just keep progressing William Hand aka Black Hand until the Green Lantern movie.
Another smart move they can do is they should cast all Green Lanterns and not just Hal Jordan.
For those that dont know earth has few Green Lanterns.And with the rumours going that DC may offer the role of one of them John Stewart to Idris Elba I am totally seeing my prediction coming true.
Other notable Lanterns besides Hal Jordan and John Stewart are Kyle Rayner and Guy Gardner.
Another story line they could use for the GL movie is the Ring War but that will be mentioned in my other article.