Green Lantern headed for cinemas after all?

After the collapse of Jack Black's rather unlikely attempt at Green Lantern it looked as if the property might be dead, at least until after George Miller's Justice League movie completed its interminable gestation.

Now, though Comicology suggests that Greg Berlanti, writer of neo-Dallas Dirty Sexy Money is currently working on the script for a live-action Green Lantern movie. Maybe that sneaky poster in I am Legend that hinted at a live action movie about the interplanetary peacekeeper wasn't such a red herring after all..

Nevertheless, IMDB is currently displaying an eerily blank page with just a year of release, 2010, for Green Lantern.

The smart money is on any Green Lantern project featuring the John Stewart incarnation of GL, although Comicology offers this intriguing counter-argument:

However, the Justice League movie has John Stewart already set to be their Green Lantern, so Berlanti’s Green Lantern may still be Hal Jordan. And, fortunately for Hal Jordan fans, the direct-to-DVD movie Justice League: New Frontier gave Mr. Jordan a lot of new fans, and has increased his grip on his standing as the Green Lantern among kids and the general public.

It's a tough one: I loved the Hal Jordan Green Lantern books as a young lad, but I can't help thinking that the effects technology to convincingly depict the power of the ring is likely to remain beyond our grasp for a couple of decades yet. What do you think? Does this sound like a great fun movie or a disaster in the making? Sound off in the comments below:

Comments

[Matthew D]

I reckon ILM could pull it off..as long as it was mainly force rays & stuff and not too many boxing gloves! Otherwise it would end up like The Mask

[icy]

IMDb is user-submitted non-moderated content. I could go into IMDb and create a page for a Michael Moran biographical movie, but it wouldn't mean anything. This is well below rumor material.

[Darrin]

I hope this movie happens, and even if it's John Stewart, I'd see it. However, I really hope they choose to use Hal. Stewart's a great character, but he's been in animated series and movies, and will be in the JLA live-action movie. It's time to give the Hal fans some love.