Mark Harrison Jun 16, 2019
In 2011 Warner Bros tried to launch the DC Extended Universe with a Green Lantern movie. It didn't work out.
There has been a lot of progress in the last eight years of superhero cinema. In the summer of 2011, the Avengers had not yet assembled, Christian Bale was still the Dark Knight, and Ryan Reynolds was still trying to get a Deadpool movie made out of the ashes of that awful Wolverine prequel.
But there were plenty of signs as to where this was all going down the road and in that last pre-Avengers summer blockbuster season, when Warner Bros Pictures delivered the first Green Lantern movie. Just as Marvel Studios brought Iron Man out of a second-tier character from the comics with the intentions of branching out into a broader cinematic continuity and crossovers with other characters down the line, so Green Lantern would launch a franchise for the DC Comics characters.
In 2011 Warner Bros tried to launch the DC Extended Universe with a Green Lantern movie. It didn't work out.
There has been a lot of progress in the last eight years of superhero cinema. In the summer of 2011, the Avengers had not yet assembled, Christian Bale was still the Dark Knight, and Ryan Reynolds was still trying to get a Deadpool movie made out of the ashes of that awful Wolverine prequel.
But there were plenty of signs as to where this was all going down the road and in that last pre-Avengers summer blockbuster season, when Warner Bros Pictures delivered the first Green Lantern movie. Just as Marvel Studios brought Iron Man out of a second-tier character from the comics with the intentions of branching out into a broader cinematic continuity and crossovers with other characters down the line, so Green Lantern would launch a franchise for the DC Comics characters.
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