WB Still Talking Up Green Lantern Sequel...For Some Reason

He might be the big-kahuna at Warner Brothers adding weight to his comments, but we've been down this road before with Jeff Robinov. Do we have to dig up the infamous Wall-Street Journal article promising "darker, grittier" DC movies post-The Dark Knight? Whatever happened to those epic announcements of big comic flicks from the Brothers Warner and Detective Comics?

Post-Green Lantern bombing, the term "sequel" is still being bantered around by the One They Call Jeff as he tells Hero Complex they know what they have to do with a hypothetical Green Lantern 2:

"To go forward we need to make it a little edgier and darker with more emphasis on action.... And we have to find a way to balance the time the movie spends in space versus on Earth."

Notice the absence of a definitive "Yes, we're making a sequel!" statement. This sounds like nothing more than circling the wagons and talking up the character and property in order to keep it in the conversation (just in time for the home-video release!) when, by now, everyone would rather talk about how X-Men: First Class was great or how much they can't wait to see The Dark Knight Rises.

Comments

[Sugarbear]

To go forward we need to make it a little edgier and darker with more emphasis on action.... And we have to find a way to balance the time the movie spends in space versus on Earth." ....Is exactly right. I think the 2nd GL will have some "The Dark Knight" swag when it's released

[Kal-El Fan]

I hope they do make another one. I'd like to see them get it right and for WB to have a DC franchise outside of Batman and Superman.