Green Lantern Producer Shares Updates on Script Treatments For the Sequel & The Flash

Green Lantern Producer Shares Updates on Script Treatments For the Sequel & The Flash

The producer of the Martin Campbell's much anticipated Green Lantern adaption, Greg Berlanti shares a quick update on potential adaptions of the sequel, and the Flash. Check it Out!

By DCMarvelFreshman - Sep 25, 2010 10:09 AM EST
Filed Under: Green Lantern
Source: ComingSoon.net / SuperHeroHype



ComingSoon.net/SHH had a opportunity to sit down with the producer and co-writer of the upcoming Green Lantern film, Greg Berlanti. He shares great answers to questions regarding his involvement in plans for a potential sequel, the progress of The Flash treatment, and gives a quick update on what he's focusing on at the moment.

"We are working on the treatment for the second [Green Lantern] film actually, we just started working on that with the same guys who I did the original with. (Michael Green and Marc Guggenheim) Those two guys are also writing a script based on a treatment we wrote for 'The Flash,' so that's my involvement with DC right now is the script for 'The Flash' and the treatment for 'GL2'."

On the tone of the movies, as well as how they'll bring the mythology from the comics into the movie universe, Berlanti says:

"'GL' is always a bit lighter than that on earth but mixed with a twinge of the space opera, which has its own epic qualities to it. 'Flash' as we're getting into it is interesting, too. Though Barry Allen was a little lighter in the comic, I think because of the nature that he was a CSI and moved in this world of crime before this stuff happened. I think it's tonally somewhere in between 'GL' and 'Dark Knight.' It's actually a little bit darker than when we were working on ('GL), because you're dealing with somebody who is already a crimefighter in a world of those kinds of criminals and that kind of murder and homicide. I find you talk a lot about different films when you're working on a film, and we spend a lot more time talking about 'Se7en' or 'The Silence of the Lambs' as we construct that part of Barry's world, then I thought when we got into it. It helps balance a guy in a red suit who runs really fast."

On which aspects of the Flash comics might make it into the first movie, particularly about the Rogues' Gallery and the time travel aspect of the comics:

"A third thing I'd throw at you is alternate dimensions, so it's true that we want to find the things that make it… With 'GL,' we used to say there's a space opera component and then there's the down on earth. In 'The Flash,' there's the sci-fi component and there's the crime component and it's fitting those two things together, and the sci-fi thing, we obviously want to nail that and honor that and do that in a way that feels visceral and real and cool and probably more in the tone of 'The Matrix" films or things like that. I always think of 'The Flash' stories where he met Jay Garrick and knows there was Earth Prime and things like that. There's an avenue for these films to broaden the DC Film Universe in that way, so that's the hope."

"When we have the script together, I'll probably sit down with Warner Bros. and want to decide what's best for that movie. It's so hard when you're working on the material, the script too, because if I thought about it just as a director I would freak myself out but when I think about it just as a writer, we try so many different things. It's like, 'I don't even know how we're going to do that but what if we did this or what if we showed this?' It's more freeing and liberating so I haven't really thought beyond the script right now for it."



It's great to know that they have an ideal-tone for The Flash, in between TDK & GL, showing that things are really progressing. We're all aware of the dark tone of The Dark Knight, but we'll know Green Lantern's when it hits theaters June 17, next year!
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LEEE777
LEEE777 - 9/25/2010, 10:28 AM
I hope WB ain't Bullsh1tting again!

We so need a FLASH movie!



GL sequel too, epic stuff @ FRESH!

jbak368
jbak368 - 9/25/2010, 10:31 AM
Crisis On Infinite Movie Sets?
StrangerX
StrangerX - 9/25/2010, 10:46 AM
The way he describes the Flash actually sounds pretty cool. It makes me think that DC and Warner Bros know what they really want to do.
superman7
superman7 - 9/25/2010, 10:48 AM
@ jbak368:
Thats exactly what i was thinking when he talked about traversing different dimensions and spoke of Jay Garrick!
UltimateAvenger
UltimateAvenger - 9/25/2010, 10:52 AM
I am looking forward to a Flash movie. He is my second favorite DC character behind Batman of course.
Dynamo
Dynamo - 9/25/2010, 11:02 AM
@Intruder.
I'd say 2013, if Green Lantern is succesful. We might see it's sequel and the Flash movie in the same year.
comicrelief1
comicrelief1 - 9/25/2010, 11:03 AM
@Intruder,

I think you may be right about the time lag for the Flash.
rodsvilaca
rodsvilaca - 9/25/2010, 11:17 AM
I think on the movie they will create a type of costume for the Flash made of something that supposedly can withstand the heat, cuts, electricity and acid corrosion. Something whose origins is related to the aerospace and NASA. Imagine a costume of unstable molecules like a wetsuit for hot boiling water near the submarine volcanoes.
jazzman
jazzman - 9/25/2010, 11:39 AM
Warner Bros makes me laugh at first when David S. Goyer was doing the script for The Flash WB said it was too dark and they wanted it to be lighter tone. now they want The Flash to have a dark tone like TDK.

@teabag

its more WB fault on why some of the DC characters not coming on film.
Superman8
Superman8 - 9/25/2010, 11:46 AM
finally. a producer who gives us straight answers when we ask him straight questions.

as for the answers themselves, love them. i think they are spot on with GL and Flash.

im still not sold on a stand alone flash movie though. idk if he can carry a movie and idk if thers anyway to justify a man in red tights who can run fast and how you can build a good movie around that.
AngelAragiel
AngelAragiel - 9/25/2010, 12:12 PM
A Flash movie would kick major ass if properly done. A WW movie is another must. But for some reason the projects for those two characters movies always fail(i.e. Joss Whedon's WW and David Goyer's Flash).
DaenerysTargaryen
DaenerysTargaryen - 9/25/2010, 12:19 PM
Off topic: I just found this video and all I can say is "Wow...Fail"
Phinehas
Phinehas - 9/25/2010, 12:28 PM
This is a relief. The ideas that he presented with the Flash are tonally the same of what I had envisioned.

Anyone else notice how he was directly asked about the Rogues, but sidestepped with alternate dimensions? Yes, we know alternate dimensions are an aspect, but I'd really like to hear a genuine answer to the genuine question asked.
AngelAragiel
AngelAragiel - 9/25/2010, 12:31 PM
@Intruder well that's a real shame cause I think there is a lot of female superheros and characters that would wor great for CBM's.
jazzman
jazzman - 9/25/2010, 12:33 PM
@Starsapphire

Sh*t happens lol
blah
blah - 9/25/2010, 12:45 PM
hope we get to see the green lantern, and its sequel do good and have a great story, also hope they do good with the flash, and get a amozonian wonderwoman film made were she is fighting huge anaconda snakes and spider and things like that, and then has to come to our world and other mytholigal creatures are being brought here as well and she would have to battle them back and i could picture a huge fight between her and cheetah. i dont know i think if handle right it could be really good and that goes for all of them.
AshleyWilliams
AshleyWilliams - 9/25/2010, 12:45 PM
I'm so glad that he actually said something informative. And not "Well,we are working on the script and it will be great."

The Flash deserves a movie. So does Wonder Woman.
Phinehas
Phinehas - 9/25/2010, 1:12 PM
Its those booties! I'm tellin' ya....
Jeri
Jeri - 9/25/2010, 1:34 PM
Showing progression?


Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight, believe it when I see it.
jazzman
jazzman - 9/25/2010, 1:41 PM
@Dman7

but yet Marvel films still not won a Oscar or even been nominated
Superman8
Superman8 - 9/25/2010, 1:43 PM
@ star

best video ive seen from Cap so far! lmao
LightningArmour
LightningArmour - 9/25/2010, 3:13 PM
This sounds beyond awful.
The Flash has never been, and never SHOULD be "dark."

I'm sick and tired of this fad we're in where every damn movie about a guy wearing tights and fighting wacky bad guys has to be [frick]ing "grim and realistic."

[frick] that noise.
I mean [frick], why can't we have another movie like Spider-Man? Why can't we have a lighthearted, completely over-the-top Flash movie?

This is a complete [frick]ing molestation of the Flash and you people should be ashamed for looking forward to it.
thetrubatman14
thetrubatman14 - 9/25/2010, 4:19 PM
i think green lantern is gonna be the BEES KNEES!!!
i wonder who would play flash???
Angelus
Angelus - 9/25/2010, 4:20 PM
This is good news. Very good news. I wonder which villain they would use. I'd love to see an updated Mirror Master or the sociopathic Zoom. I just hope they dont make the first film complicated with a lot of time travel and alternate dimensions. But I like what I hear so far. Hal and Barry is coming people!!! =D

BMP!
tricklove187
tricklove187 - 9/25/2010, 4:44 PM
Sometimes I wish there was no Internet so I could forget about these movies in development.

Then I'm reminded of all the free porn.
skullboy
skullboy - 9/25/2010, 5:13 PM
I hope the Flash movie is on the fast track, no pun intented. I'm glad they're already planning the Green Lantern sequel before the first movie is even released. I'm still angry that a Justice League movies isn't in the cards. It's always something with Warner Bros.
marvel72
marvel72 - 9/25/2010, 6:03 PM
warner & dc are full of shit.
chopfer15
chopfer15 - 9/25/2010, 6:41 PM
@intruder - dude, the flash's rogues are nit lame. Only batman has a better set. Name another DC character with a better Rogue list than:
Professor zoom, reverse flash, gorilla grodd, mirror master, trixster, captain boomerang, pied piper, captain cold, weather wizard, and abra kadabra.
No other dc character has a list like that save perhaps batman. And he only wins because of joker. Wizard magazine had a poll and the rogues won as the best group of villains fir a hero
chopfer15
chopfer15 - 9/25/2010, 10:01 PM
@delamorte - totally agree man. The character development is HUGE. That's another reason to love the flash though. He has evolved more over the years than most characters. And not just the change in who is wearing the costume. They have taken each of the flash's and put them through the emotional ringer. None moreso than Barry Allen. Plus, they develop the flash's rogues characters as well. Some of them go straight, most have definitely changed over time. The same cannot be said for most other DC villains.
groundrunner15
groundrunner15 - 9/25/2010, 10:11 PM
@Intruder You might actually want to read some Flash comics before making those statements.
JohnTom88
JohnTom88 - 9/25/2010, 10:18 PM
Wally West please. Barry Allen is redundant when there's Bruce Wayne and Marty Manhutter as the better equipped crime detectives of the bunch. What JLA needs is the funny man. If you want to watch Ryan Reynolds devolve into his usual self be my guest, but I want to see Flash as Spider-Man of the DC/WB universe.

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