In a recent interview, Ryan 'Hal Jordan' Reynolds talks about entering the art department of the
Green Lantern film, and he also discusses the tone of the film.
On entering the art department...
"I wandered through the art department, and that's what sold me, seeing this universe that's created and the scale of it all. They're taking the
Green Lantern canon from the comics and they're extending it out into this new medium. Our goal is to make the first superhero who really goes on a
Star Wars kind of epic journey, and this mythology goes back a lot further than
Star Wars."
On the overall tone of the film...
"Tone was the biggest concern going in and then it almost became a contagion, and it became the concern of everyone and with me just harping on it. And now I feel that it's the most exciting discovery as we kept going. No, it's not dark like Christopher Nolan's
Batman movies, but it isn't very light like you saw some of the [1980s]
Superman movies get. The character is somewhere in the middle. He's a classic male. Han Solo, who was witty but not really funny, was one of the touchstones."
Green Lantern flies into theaters June 17th, later this year!
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