'Green Lantern': 5 Lessons for Hollywood. Warner Bros. Pictures/©DC Comics "Green Lantern" Warner Bros. and comic book movie fans are reeling after the poor opening weekend performance of Green Lantern, which was to serve as a cornerstone for a line of DC Comics-based films to rival those of Marvel. Lantern collected a lower-than-expected $53 million domestically, and a 22 percent drop from Friday to Saturday indicated poor word-of-mouth. Warners insiders say that the $200 million-budgeted movie needed to open at least in the $60 million range for the studio to move forward with a sequel, for which it has already committed to a script by Michael Goldenberg. Even before the greenish dust has settled, here are five things that went wrong. 1. Readers connect with comic books through original stories by writers and artists: For Green Lantern, it could be stories from the 1970s, by Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams or, more recently, by Geoff Johns.
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Exclusive Preview: 'Green Lantern' Movie Prequel Comics: 'Kilowog' and 'Tomar-Re' Moviegoers will get to know Hal Jordan (as played by Ryan Reynolds) pretty well as they watch his journey from test pilot to space cop in Green Lantern on June 18, but his intergalactic co-stars are worth a closer look as well. Drill sergeant Kilowog and the brilliant Tomar-Re will be among the most influential lanterns Jordan will meet during his orientation on the Green Lantern homeworld of Oa, making them prime aliens for further study. This Wednesday, June 8, DC will dig deeper into the movie backstories of these two Lanterns in the Green Lantern Movie Prequel: Kilowog and Green Lantern Movie Prequel Tomar-Re one-shots.
Get acquainted with the heroes with our exclusive first-look from DC Comics after the jump.As we've seen in the Green Lantern movie trailers, Kilowog (as voiced by Michael Clarke Duncan) isn't afraid of getting his hands dirty in the name of forging new recruits. Green Lantern Movie Prequel: Kilowog #1 Story and words: Peter J. Tomasi Penciller: Carlos Ferreira.
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