Marc Guggenheim is co-writing the screenplay for the live-action “Green Lantern” movie and although he didnt give anything away concerning casting or specific plot points, he did say some very interesting things to MTV...
According to Guggenheim, the script has been in a constant state of revisions since “Casino Royale” director Martin Campbell was tagged to helm the project.
“It’s basically the exercise of changing the movie from being just a script that people are reading to being a script that people will actually shoot, perform and produce,” said the writer of the recent flurry of revisions.
He also asks fans not to be too dismissive of whoever does get to wear the Lanterns ring in the movie...
“It’s always particularly funny when there’s a rumor that goes around and I’m like, ‘I know that can’t be true because that actor’s schedule doesn’t permit them to do the movie in our time frame,’ or any number of other things,” said the writer. “But I’m a very big believer that in acting, people can surprise you. People you didn’t necessarily think were the right choice on paper can be the absolute right choice.”
“When Heath Ledger was first announced as the Joker that wasn’t the obvious right choice, but now that everyone has seen ‘The Dark Knight,’ can any of us imagine someone else in that role?”
Probably the biggest reveal is that a new Green Lantern was created specifically for the movie. I cant see this decision being too popular with the fans, but...
“One of our rules has been: ‘Don’t create a new Lantern when a pre-existing one from the comic books would work just as well,’” he said. “There’s only one Lantern who we’ve decided to completely create from scratch, but there’s a very specific reason why we’ve made that decision.”
Ok, im willing to go along with this. as long as that reason he mentioned isnt that Kilowog was too hard to realize on film!
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