The first hints of the direction of the new Green Lantern movie have started to surface.
It's no accident that when Warner Bros. released their DC superhero movie calendar that Green Lantern was the furthest off in the future, with a June 19th, 2020 release date. Doing this serves two purposes: it puts as much distance as possible between this and Martin Campbell's 2011 failed franchise starter, it would allow audiences to get used to whichever new Green Lantern is introduced in the Justice League movies, and it would buy the studio time to figure out a new direction for the franchise.
There are now the first indications of what that direction will take. Instead of focusing on a single Green Lantern, the new film may very well be a Green Lantern Corps movie, dealing with at least three of the Earth based Green Lanterns; Hal Jordan, John Stewart, and Guy Gardner.
That's certainly a different enough approach, and since Earth is a pretty small playground for guys with cosmic powers, I'd imagine that this means the new series will take a more cosmic approach to things. This will also allow them to focus on different Lanterns in future movies, and perhaps let the one best suited to a particular job show up in assorted Justice League flicks. It probably removes any burdensome origin stories from the equation, too.
We still don't know which of those Green Lanterns will be introduced in the upcoming Justice League movies, though. Tyrese Gibson has been campaigning for the John Stewart role pretty heavily on social media, and Common (who was actually cast as Stewart in George Miller's Justice League: Mortal movie) has said he'd be willing to give it another shot, but has since been cast in the Suicide Squad movie in an undisclosed role. Chris Pine may have been in the running for Hal Jordan, but has instead taken the role of Wonder Woman love interest, Steve Trevor.
If there's been any movement on casting, Warner Bros. isn't talking, but since it sounds like they're planning a pretty hefty superhero presentation at SDCC in a couple of weeks, that might be what they're saving it for.
Source: Collider
