Actually, the scariest thing here isn't Green Lantern 2, but Sandman being discussed in terms of an Harry Potter franchise replacement. I mean, Sandman is brilliant, and I would personally chop off one of my own fingers to see a well-done series of movies faithful to Gaiman's creation — but casting my mind back on the various story arcs, that's pretty weird shit there, and I'm unsure the American movie-going public is going to be interested in it (let alone taking their kidlings a la Harry Potter) without some major, awful soul-draining rewrites.
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Wow, the grass isn't looking a whole lot greener on the D.C. side of the silver screen.
A few of these, I'll believe only after I see them cough Wonder Woman cough
Also…
Green Lantern II ?
Seriously?
A look at all the DC comic films rumored and in development
Neil Gaiman has some fun stories about some of the treatments Hollywood has done for Sandman, like trying to turn Morpheus into some sort of Action Movie Hardass.
The sad thing is that these could be great movies but could so easily be ruined by film-makers trying to appeal to everybody.
If I had to pick a DC property for a film, I think I'd go with Suicide Squad. The trick would be to get people to care about the characters so that the jeopardy (and any deaths) would be meaningful.
I dunno, Suicide Squad really only works if you have a grounding in DC continuity, I don't think it really stands that well on its own as a new property.
Hence my comment about making us care about the characters. They would have to be introduced in a way that makes us care about them immediately. I like to think it could be done.
Hmmm. Suicide Squad's been done in "conventional" terms. If you added super-powers to the mix — that would feel odd to some people, I suspect, unless you did something with it that you could only do with super-heroes.
(I'll note one of my favorite JLU eps involved the not-named-as-such Suicide Squad raiding the Watchtower — you didn't have to know or care anything about the characters, as much as the anti-hero aspects of them making them the protagonists.)