While Green Lantern hasn’t exactly lit up the box-office, Warner Brothers has decided it will move forward with a sequel to this summer’s super hero film.
Sources say Warners still believes in the franchise, even if the studio is “somewhat disappointed” with Green Lantern’s result.
Warner Bros. president of domestic distribution Dan Fellman said the movie is settling in, pointing out that movies with a hard core fan audience pics often see a significant drop-off in their second weekends.
Lantern cost a reported $200 million to make and it may have a difficult time recouping that figure domestically. The competition gets steeper this weekend with the opening of the third Transformers movie.
Maybe they can get someone who actually LIKED the comic book to direct it this time?
They’ve set the bar medium to low so a sequel has a pretty good chance of being better. I just saw GL and I put it on par with Electra, fun Sunday afternoon viewing but not up to the quality of a lot of the recent greats like both Nolan Batman movies, Watchmen or even Thor.
Well, they did get that pesky origin stuff out of the way and they did get some pretty good pieces into place, perhaps now we can get a GL movie? Please.
Saw GL on Friday, and considering that I expected it to be a total turd, I was pleasantly surprised that it didn’t suck that bad.
It lacked focus. It didn’t know if it wanted to be a super-hero origin story, a super-hero love story, a super-hero surviving against all odds story, or a super-hero comedy. It succeeds and fails on all of these at different levels. It could have been done better, but it was good afternoon popcorn-eating fun.
The big thing I’m going to criticize it for is the obvious edits, probably for the PG-13 rating or possibly for time. I’m sorry, and I realize the film wasn’t edited for me ( a reasonable and reasoning individual ) but for a 13-year-old girl, at the same time they could have focused on something and had a really good movie with a PG-13 rating. Hollywood, you have once again failed.
I am glad that they’ve decided to do a sequel… what with all the obvious set up for one.
Having been dazzled by the likes of Iron Man (both films) as well as Thor, my expectations for superhero movies has been raised pretty high, and this movie just doesn’t cut it for me, and I’m very disappointed that Warners has decided to give this movie a chance at a sequel when they own such other, hotter properties and won’t even give those the time of day!!!
Hopefully the sequel will be better than the original. Should be interesting since I expect to have a story with Sinestro based upon the little extras that were shown during the credits.