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SCIFI MEDIA ZONE: Beginning at WonderCon, where nine minutes of footage was shown, and continuing from there with various trailers, it seems like there’s been a real turnaround in terms of people’s response to the look and effects of Green Lantern.
MARC GUGGENHEIM: It’s really exciting. I’ve been saying that the footage is so good, that it’s given permission for people to hate the first trailer. And, look, I totally understand why – it was not the greatest trailer in the world and that’s because you couldn’t show a lot of material. So many things were just not done. But that’s how it goes. Now, though, it seems to be getting a great response, and that’s totally awesome.
SCIFI MEDIA ZONE: It some ways when there was all this publicity for Thor and X-Men: First Class, there was really nothing out there on Green Lantern.
MARC GUGGENHEIM: That might have been the case, but by the time the movie comes out you will feel like, “Oh my God, I cannot escape Green Lantern.” At the end of the day, it’s a marathon and none of it’s going to matter except for the movie itself. The movie replaces all the marketing and the stuff that everyone is focused on now. I’m very eager to see what people think about the movie.
SCIFI MEDIA ZONE: So you think the movie is going to kick ass?
MARC GUGGENHEIM: I think the movie DOES kick ass. As a professional writer who’s had stuff produced, I’ve definitely had to make peace with the fact that how I feel and how an audience will react are sometimes two different things. The fact that the footage is now getting such a great response bodes really well, because the truth of the matter is that the way Oa looks was definitely an artistic choice. I mean, you can’t say that’s how it looked in the comics – the dark moodiness of it – and the same with the way the whole Corp looks together. I think it looks great, but I wasn’t sure how people would react to it and I didn’t take it for granted that people would react great to it. So the fact that people are responding to the artistic choices that were made bodes well for the entire movie.
SCIFI MEDIA ZONE: It would seem that Green Lantern is going to be a real testing ground on whether Warners/DC can connect to an audience with something other than Batman or Superman on the big screen.
MARC GUGGENHEIM: I completely agree. But like I said, I think Green Lantern IS going to really connect with the audience. It’s got something that no other superhero movie has, which is this big space opera feel to it. You watch and you go, “Oh my God, this reminds me of how I felt when I watched Star Wars,” and that’s something no superhero before Green Lantern has ever attempted. I think that helps make it special. It’s the same way that Thor is an atypical comic book movie, and I mean atypical in the sense of this other element you haven’t seen in a superhero movie before – the Asgardian element, which looks like a Lord of the Rings element. It’s a big, bold adventure that we’re all undertaking and I’m really excited. I think that Green Lantern accesses that part of all of our childhoods that we remember from movies like Star Wars, when we went, “Wow, this is what a movie can do; this is where a movie can take me; this is a bright, brand new world that I can be introduced to.” And on top of that, it’s a great kick ass superhero movie.
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