In a huge interview with Collider Geoff Johns talked in detail about some of the finer details and surprises we can expect to see in Green Lantern. For the full version (which also includes some fascinating insights from producer Donald De Line, production designer Grant Major and costume designer Ngila Dickson, click on the link below.
Has it been determined if the rings will speak in the film?
The rings will not speak.
How will members of the corps know when their personal battery is low? Will there be a way that the ring will communicate with them?
Yeah.
But not through speech? Will it be visualized?
Yeah.
We saw it blinking when it was time for the hologram.
Yeah.
Are you guys trying to set a base of look with the Green Lantern? Is there an idea or aesthetic that you want to set up for future DC films?
Martin Campbell is obviously doing his own thing here and building an entirely different world. It’s a different take on Green Lantern and whether or not that leads to more films being connected to it has to be determined.
You mentioned Christopher Nolan. If this Green Lantern film turns out to be the launching pad to a wider DC Universe on film...
I can’t risk talking about other DC feature films. I’ll get hung.
Will you get in trouble?
I’ll get in trouble right now.
Is there anything that is set up in this film that might lead to a bigger world?
I can’t…they will shoot me. The world of Green Lantern is so big. The different mythology of Green Lantern is so massive. All of the different characters like Guy Gardner, Jon Stewart, Kyle Rayner, and the different corps.
Will there be any hints of those characters?
Well, this is just the first film. So it will just be the start.
No talk about Earth 2 anywhere in a throwaway line, dialogue, or anything?
No.
Are the different colored energies going to be explained in the movie?
Tomar-Re talks about them.
So the Parallax doesn’t speak or does it?
Well, when it’s in a host it speaks.
Are you putting any hidden easter eggs for the fans?
There is Amanda Waller. I think there is a Central City billboard in there somewhere and a bunch of other stuff.
Will there be a construct of a green boxing glove?
Well, the first thing he makes is a fist. It had to be.
And here's what Donald De Line had to say when quizzed about the rumoured Superman easter egg we heard about a while ago.
Is there any possibility at any point of them walking by a Daily Planet newspaper just sitting around.
We had it in an earlier draft of the script. We had it that when the ring was choosing Hal it circled and went through as the Daily Planet hovered over.
So there is no chance of that still being in there?
At this point it’s not in there.
With an all star cast which includes Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan, Blake Lively as Carol Ferris and Mark Strong as Sinestro, director Martin Campbell's
Green Lantern is set to be released in 3D on June 17, later this year!