Tarantino Said No To Green Lantern
Written by Ian Cullen on December 6, 2009 – 10:00 am -
Inglourious Basterds Director Quentin Tarantino recently revealed in an interview for MTV that he turned down the opportunity to direct the new Green Lantern movie, which is currently in production with Ryan Reynolds in the lead role of Hal Jordan/Green Lantern.
When talking about the DC Comics based movie Tarantino stated that he’s outgrown such projects.
“I was offered the Green Lantern,” he said. “Not since it’s been a script, but just like, ‘Hey we own the Green Lantern, would you like it?’
“So there’s a little part of me that’s like, ‘Wow, if I was in my 20s, this would be the genre I’d want to specialise in’,” he continued. “But they weren’t making them then, or at least not the right ones. But there also is an aspect where I’ve kind of outgrown that a little bit.”
Tarantino added that he would still be open to a Superhero project, but would rather focus on a Superhero that he can create from scratch as apposed to being bogged down with the comic book continuity of existing comic book heroes.
“I’m a writer. I’d want to use my imagination and not have to fight with geeks’ memories of how this character should be and, ‘Oh, I cast an actor as opposed to a bodybuilder’, or, ‘It’s not as good as the way [DC Comics artist] Neal Adams drew him’. If I were to do something like that, I would want the fun of coming up with the superhero myself.”
Green Lantern, directed by Martin Campbell, will arrive in cinemas on June 17, 2011.
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Tags: Green Lantern, Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino
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By Jimmy on Dec 6, 2009 | Reply
We should all be thankful he did say no. Tarantino is a horrible director and would have ruined Green Lantern.