Michael Goldenberg Tapped to Write Green Lantern 2

Last week came a report that a Green Lantern sequel starts filming before the original was even released for a Summer or Christmas 2012 release. It sounded bogus for a reason. Because it was. Come on, what studio would seriously take that kind of risk on an unproven property even if they're confident they have a hit on their hands?

By no means however does that suggest Warner Brothers isn't thinking ahead with the Emerald Knight.

The trades report Michael Goldenberg has been hired to pen the screenplay for Green Lantern 2. He's no stranger to the character – having been involved with writing on the first film. This comes months after his co-writers Greg Berlanti, Michael Green and Marc Guggenheim were commissioned to cook up a treatment.

No word on when WB would plan to unleash the Lantern follow-up. But you can bet that they're going to wait and see the results of Martin Campbell's freshman installment before fully committing to another one. The soonest it'd probably be unleashed is 2013/2014.