Greg Berlanti, who has produced and written a fair bit of TV but has directed only one feature film to date — i.e. The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000) — has signed on to direct a live-action version of Green Lantern, reports Variety:
Berlanti will write the script with Marc Guggenheim and Michael Green. Donald De Line will produce; Andrew Haas is exec producer. . . .
Guggenheim, who works with Berlanti as a writer-producer on “Brothers & Sisters,” wrote the Marvel comicbooks “Amazing Spider-Man,” “Wolverine” and “Blade.” Green, the “Heroes” co-exec producer who worked with Berlanti on “Everwood” and “Jack & Bobby,” wrote the Marvel Comics [sic] title “Superman/Batman” and was a writer-producer on “Smallville.”
Interestingly, there is no reference to the Justice League movie in this story — which would seem to square with what one alleged insider has claimed, to the effect that neither Hal Jordan nor the Green Lantern Corps feature anywhere in that movie. So it seems not all future DC Comics movies will be spin-offs of that film.
OCT 30 UPDATE: MTV Movies Blog says one of the Green Lanterns will be in the Justice League movie — and that it will be John Stewart, rather than Hal Jordan. Would the Green Lantern movie be all about Stewart too, then? The Variety story implies that the film will be all about Jordan, but it also seems to get its Green Lanterns confused — implying as it does that the character of Hal Jordan, who made his debut in 1959, was created in 1940, which is when the original Green Lantern, Alan Scott, made his debut.
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