Guggenheim Talks “Green Lantern”

Writer Marc Guggenheim tells MTV News that he and screenwriters Michael Green and Greg Berlanti (who’s also directing the film) have finished the script for “Green Lantern” and are working on polishing it before it heads into production.

“This morning, we sat down to talk Green Lantern,” Guggenheim said, “and we ended up riffing for an hour and a half on another, much more obscure character. Sometimes, you just have to roll with it when inspiration strikes, you know? I’m sure the studio wouldn’t be happy about it, but we’re not going to blow the deadline. We’ll get it in.”

“[The changes are] nothing that’s affecting the storyline, really,” he said. “It’s pretty well set. But sometimes we’ll move a scene to a different location for budget purposes, perhaps in an already established location instead of a new one. It’s a question of, which locations can we live without? It’s a constant process to streamline what you’re going through, even after the film is shot, when you’re cutting things in the edit. That’s what the rewrite process is like, how you sand down the roughness of the a movie to its smoothest.”

Guggenheim also took a moment to address casting rumors that are swirling around the Internet, including everyone from Ryan Gosling to David Boreanaz to Matthew Settle.  Guggenheim said that any rumors about who will play the Green Lantern are just that–rumors.

However, he did tease audiences that another potential D.C. Universe hero could make a cameo.

“There were rumors that Tom Welling would have a cameo in ‘Batman Begins’ as a young Clark Kent, to meet up with a young Bruce Wayne,” Guggenheim noted. “But you have to be careful when you do things like that, because it sounds great in concept, but when you sit down to watch it, it poses the danger of pulling you out of the film.”

But as a self-proclaimed “sucker for a good Easter egg,” Guggenheim said, “The fanboy in me would love that. Robert Downey, Jr. in ‘The Hulk’ was awesome. I love that stuff in general, and I think the fans would enjoy it. Brandon Routh or even Tom Welling [in ‘Green Lantern’] would be awesome. And anything is possible. The beauty part of being the writer, though, is that I don’t actually have to make that judgment call.”