Sit back and wrap your mind around this one. Director Quentin Tarentino was offered the chance to direct the upcoming version of “Green Lantern.”
The Oscar-nominated director revealed this tidbit to MTV’s Splash Blog earlier this week, noting that had he been offered the directing job in his 20’s, he would have jumped at the chance.
“So there’s a little part of me that’s like, ‘Wow, if I was in my 20s, this would be the genre I’d want to specialize in,” he said. “But they weren’t making them then, or at least not the right ones. But there also is an aspect where I’ve kind of outgrown that a little bit.”
Tarentino says he was offered the directing gig before the current script was completed. And that while he’d have found it fun to do a comic book adaptation a decade or so ago, right now he’s more interested in creating original material for the silver screen.
“It wouldn’t be an existing comic book character,” he said. “I’m a writer. I’d want to use my imagination and not have to fight with geeks’ memories of how this character should be and, ‘Oh, I cast an actor as opposed to a bodybuilder’ or it’s not as good as the way [DC Comics artist] Neal Adams drew him.’ If I were to do something like that, I would want the fun of coming up with the superhero myself.”
So would it have been cool to see Tarantino behind “Green Lantern?” Or would his directoral vision not have meshed well with the universe of Hal Jordan?
Well, if your idea of Green Lantern is half 70s blaxploitation, half 70s kung fu, then I guess that would have made you happy.
But for people who actually like the Green Lantern universe, it would have been a disaster.
Thank god it didn’t happen, when he’s good he’s very good ( which actually isn’t all that often ) but when he’s bad we get Death Proof.
This one quote makes me happy to read.
“…right now he’s more interested in creating original material for the silver screen.”
Original Content. Yay!
I would be very interested to see a big screen adapation of TGL but I’m also pleased to see that QT is more interested in doing something original. If I were a screenwriter or film maker I wouldn’t have a lot of interest in doing something that’s been done before.
I’d rather see Tarantino do his own thing. Even his weaker efforts (Jakie Brown & Death Proof) are ten times better then most of his competitors. Plus the fact that he wants to do original material is refreshing.