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Hey folks, Harry here with a letter from 'Hal' detailing the latest buzz he's heard on the GREEN LANTERN film and a request for further digging from me. The key element that I seem to have dug up at the moment is that GREEN LANTERN seems to be set up with EAGLE COVE ENTERTAINMENT at the moment and not Joel Silver Productions. Recently that production company has produced DEEP BLUE SEA, THE FAMILY MAN and DUETS... while they also have properties like STARSKY AND HUTCH, TOMCATS, THE SANDMAN (along with Peters Entertainment) and even a remake for BULLIT (like that needs to happen) When last reported to the world the screenplay was in the hands of Gary Scott Thompson, who has written THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS and did rewriting duties on HOLLOW MAN. I'm hoping for the best out of this project... I mean on my desk is that big DC direct Green Lantern lantern with Hal Jordan atop it. I'm a huge GL freak (pre-Guy Gardner... sorry) Let's hope that if this ever does get made, it gets made correctly by people that love the property. Here's our Prisoner's rumor filled letter that got me started....

Hey Harry,

You know the drill...longtime reader, first-time submission =)

The scope of my 'fanboy bandwidth' is usually limited to LOR, anything David Lynch or Terry Gilliam, and classic comic book characters -

which segues nicely into my possible 'scoop'...

I normally wouldn't embarrass myself by submitting a 'friend-of-a-friend' story, but I have been a diehard GREEN LANTERN fan for 25 of my 30 years on this rock, and if the info is accurate then I wanna see this happen! From what I hear, SILVER PICTURES has received a treatment for a GL FEATURE that could truly be something special.

Apparently the story isn't about a cartoonish baddie, or the wacky things HAL can make with his ring, but about SACRIFICE, WILLPOWER, and the responsibilities of great power. The only tidbits I could get were that the 'foe' is a branch of the military-industrial complex with a weapon that's running amok and causing earth-threatening damage, and that some other members of the GL CORPS show up at the end to witness Hal Jordan's 'victory'. Some mention of wicked CG sequences too, which this DC/WARNER property is just RIPE for!!!

God, I can't tell you how much the prospect of such a thing excites me...

GREEN LANTERN? SILVER PICTURES??? An EPIC story that won't be geared to 8-13 year olds???

Please, oh HeadGeek, use your great powers of influence and bullshit detection to see if there's any truth to this.

In the Brightest Day...

"Hal"

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Green Lantern film
by batjack
Mar 8th, 2001
01:28:26 AM
Green lantern film ..cont'd
by batjack
Mar 8th, 2001
01:29:43 AM
Starsky and Hutch ?
by Bari Umenema
Mar 8th, 2001
01:31:47 AM
What JLA film???
by DrX
Mar 8th, 2001
02:03:07 AM
If this concept makes it to the screen, then I for one will be h
by vroom socko
Mar 8th, 2001
02:31:50 AM
Get real, fanboys...
by Lazarus Long
Mar 8th, 2001
02:58:28 AM
green lantern, eh?
by baff3
Mar 8th, 2001
03:31:45 AM
replying to Doc X..
by batjack
Mar 8th, 2001
04:27:50 AM
No!!!!!
by Playhouse
Mar 8th, 2001
04:48:09 AM
Lazarus Long
by Coopcooper
Mar 8th, 2001
04:57:38 AM
No way
by Achilles
Mar 8th, 2001
05:21:01 AM
Tim Daly is Hal Jordan!
by OGREFRAN
Mar 8th, 2001
06:12:38 AM
What ever happened to the much-rumored Eddie Murphy GL?
by JonQuixote
Mar 8th, 2001
06:14:05 AM
The $$$ In Comic Properties
by DeeJay
Mar 8th, 2001
06:41:29 AM
this will suck!
by WillardEisenbaum
Mar 8th, 2001
07:20:52 AM
I'll see this when (if?)it happens!
by diverdan
Mar 8th, 2001
07:30:26 AM
This would be cooler than Spiderman
by carouselambra
Mar 8th, 2001
07:41:25 AM
Andy Dick as Hal Jordan/Green Lantern!!!
by KingOfCrows
Mar 8th, 2001
07:42:31 AM
GL's a made-for-tv superhero.
by UncleTupelo
Mar 8th, 2001
08:09:57 AM
Movies based on comic books
by VibroCount
Mar 8th, 2001
08:33:06 AM
Peters productions and Sandman. O/T
by buddman
Mar 8th, 2001
09:37:44 AM
thomas jane as hal/gl
by BEARison Ford
Mar 8th, 2001
10:29:40 AM
If you think Mechanical Webshooters are a hard concept for audie
by JonQuixote
Mar 8th, 2001
11:20:28 AM
Green Lantern
by Elliot_Kane
Mar 8th, 2001
11:30:20 AM
Actually, Bari, It's Not STARSKY & HUTCH, It's MIAMI VICE They'
by Buzz Maverik
Mar 8th, 2001
11:48:53 AM
oh, buzz
by kylerayner
Mar 8th, 2001
12:05:03 PM
Buzz you bastard
by JonQuixote
Mar 8th, 2001
12:44:30 PM
CGI GL?
by The Duke
Mar 8th, 2001
01:55:17 PM
CGI?
by VibroCount
Mar 8th, 2001
02:49:30 PM
*groan*
by Omegaman
Mar 8th, 2001
03:27:49 PM
Now WB's targeting Green Lantern for strip mining? Count me out.
by KingKrypton
Mar 8th, 2001
03:44:12 PM
Which Lantern?
by corvette63
Mar 8th, 2001
04:20:36 PM
Sinestro
by ColdLazarus
Mar 8th, 2001
05:31:57 PM
I Didn't Leech Your Casting Choices, Jon Q., Michael Mann Did. B
by Buzz Maverik
Mar 8th, 2001
06:10:55 PM
Vote for Kyle Rayner. Down with Hal!
by Avitable
Mar 8th, 2001
06:24:05 PM
In Blackest Night...unfortunately
by Redbeard_NV
Mar 8th, 2001
09:03:21 PM
Meanwhile, I'm drawing soap!
by Sgt. Bilko
Mar 8th, 2001
09:45:29 PM
I agree, this doesn't sound good.
by Daredevil
Mar 8th, 2001
11:54:49 PM
It's Morning in America
by Village Idiot
Mar 9th, 2001
12:04:29 AM
A kid finds his dad's old broken lantern, plays around in the ba
by movie_buff_mann
Mar 9th, 2001
10:03:59 AM
Fun Costume?
by RAVAGE
Mar 9th, 2001
11:00:31 AM
What about Kato??
by mcface
Mar 9th, 2001
01:39:06 PM
Dam, I had an idea for a GL film
by ultraman_alpha
Mar 9th, 2001
01:55:38 PM
About time!!!
by tix
Mar 9th, 2001
04:44:04 PM
A Green Lantern Movie.... Beware
by The Founder
Mar 9th, 2001
08:11:11 PM
Green lantern pictures
by VMPS
Mar 10th, 2001
07:33:40 PM
This movie MUST be made. And Harrison Ford must star in it!!
by SilentBob X
Mar 10th, 2001
08:18:49 PM
To be filed under non-interest, behind daredevil and flash
by TheEvilHarv
Mar 14th, 2001
12:59:11 PM
Here's a cool GREEN LANTERN MOVIE CAST PAGE
by Renaud B
Mar 20th, 2001
08:36:27 PM
Green Lantern Movie
by Law24
Sep 1st, 2003
12:52:09 AM

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