Fan-Made Green Lantern Trailer Earning Praise

A fan-made Green Lantern trailer -- created by You Tube user Jaron Pitts -- has been causing a stir on the Web.

Here is the clip, which casts Nathan Fillion in the title role as Hal Jordan:

Pitts told me he got the idea back in March and has been "tinkering ever since."

"After seeing WormyT's 'Thundercats' trailer, I was inspired to get back into that game," Pitts said. "WormyT and I had both done 'Spider-Man 3' trailers back in '06, so I thought I'd give it another shot."

Pitts said the trailer took a great deal of effort to create.

"It was definitely a lot of late night hours," he said, "so we should all be thanking my wife for not killing me."

Update on Fri, May 29, 2009 by Sean Gerski

Nathan Fillion saw the trailer and was duly impressed. He posted the following message on his Twitter page:

"I LOVE THIS! this guy rocks! Thanks for that."

Fillion followed that message up with this one:

"Green Lantern fan trailer goes from 5000 views to 157000 since Twittering. I'm loving this Twitter."

Of course, all 152,000 of those extra hits didn't come from Fillion's 60,000+ followers (the trailer ended up being posted at a lot of superhero forums and Web sites -- such as this one), but I'm sure it didn't hurt.