TV super-producer Berlanti to direct ‘Green Lantern’ flick
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Boy, that Greg Berlanti is on a roll!
The Rye native and TV wunderkind has THREE projects on ABC this season: “Brothers & Sisters,” “Dirty Sexy Money” and mid-season’s “Eli Stone.”
When I talked to Greg earlier this fall, he’d hinted that he was a wee bit worn out from the grind of TV work –- and who could blame him?!? So he said he eventually wanted to get back to directing feature films. (He headed a well-received indie movie, “The Broken Hearts Club,” a few years back.)
Well, looks like he’s on track to making that dream happen. Buzz around Hollywood is that Greg will co-write and direct a live-action adaptation of the “Green Lantern” comic for Warner Bros.
The pitch that won Greg the gig? His version of the superhero will revolve around one of the Lantern’s alter egos, Hal Jordan, a test pilot who is given a ring by a dying alien that gives him entry to a interstellar police force. Of course, Greg isn’t silly enough to change the Lantern’s signature weakness: the color yellow.
Here’s what Greg told the Hollywood Reporter:
“To me, this was on the last great comic book movie that hasn’t been made … It was a comic book with a real mythology that you would see in a lot of the space operas and the sci-fi books. The best part about it, anybody can be become one of the Green Lanterns because anyone can end up with that ring.”
It’s also nice to know that Greg didn’t coast on his TV cred to land the job: Hard work is what paid off. He’s said to have sold the studio by hiring a concept artist to illustrate how he envisioned 30 key scenes and images, and laying out a plan for a series of movies.
Greg will be working with Marc Guggenheim, his “Eli Stone” partner, and Michael Green, who’s written for NBC’s “Heroes.”
(Photo of Green Lantern from Hyperborea.org; photo of Berlanti from ABC)
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