Green Lantern movie (2011) (MC: 39, RT: 26%)

**Insanecyclone** · 2011-04-02 13:51

**Takiwaki** · 2011-04-02 14:07

awesome

**Mots** · 2011-04-02 14:37

That trailer does a good job of making it look like something I should actually see.

**6souls** · 2011-04-02 19:06

**Cichy** · 2011-04-02 19:07

Yeah, wasnt impressed with the last trailer but this looked very good.

**Darkmagi** · 2011-04-02 22:29

I was a bit doubtful with the last trailer, but this looks pretty awesome.

**Xno Kappa** · 2011-04-02 23:35

That trailer actually makes the movie looks like it doesn't suck. They probably went back and re-edited the shit out of his suit with the backlash the original trailer produced lol.

**Odesseiron** · 2011-04-03 09:03

Loved the new footage. Very stoked to see this movie now.

Couldn't watch the Wonderconn footage. The jackass hooting makes it unwatchable.

**6souls** · 2011-04-03 19:22

According to WB there will be a another trailer released attached to Thor (May 6) & that 4 minute trailer above is actually from a 10 minute trailer shown at Wondercon.

**6souls** · 2011-04-03 19:45

Interview with Producer Donald De Line

0:14 How he feels after screening the footage at Comic-Con.
0:41 How did they decide what to show? “Honestly, this is the stuff that’s the most finished so far. We have so many visual effects shots that are still outstanding that we’ve been really up against the wall, we’re racing to get the movie out June 17th, plus we’re converting to 3D. So really what we’re showing you is the stuff that are sequences that would hang together the most with the visual effects we have finished right now. So we have awesome stuff coming, we just didn’t have it ready to show. So this is really a good representation of what we had ready.”
1:19 Will footage be put on Apple in the near future? “I believe tomorrow possibly there would be some version of what we saw here today that may be 4 minutes. Today’s was 9:55 [minutes long], tomorrow’s I think is 4. It’ll go out online.”
1:37 Will the sequence with Parallax be shown in the Apple footage? “I think there will definitely be parts of it, I’m not sure if it’s there in its entirety, but there will definitely be parts of it.”
2:15 Talk about Parallax in general and how they make him terrifying. “It’s a really interesting thing because Parallax is a creature who feeds on fear, and he sucks the fear out and the fearful souls out of beings, whether they’re human beings or alien creatures. So he’s kinda this amalgamation of all these horrible terrified souls that he consumes, so it’s almost like a living Dante’s Inferno if you will. And that’s a really complicated, bit of a heady kind of concept and the artists and the CG animators we have worked on it for months and months and months and we just started seeing finished shots, so we would have artwork that was supposed to represent it, but we really didn’t have the shots. And then finally it was this giant release, it was like three weeks ago and we got our first Parallax shot and it was like ‘Ah!’ we were so excited about it and we thought it worked so well. But it was a nail biter, you know you have to go on a lot of faith.”
3:28 Talk about the costume. “Our concept is that the costume is created out of the green energy of will, just like the ring is powered by the green energy of will just like the central battery on the planet Oa is completely comprised of green energy. So the suit is green energy, and we didn’t want it to be a spandex suit that he hangs in his closet and puts on. When he wills the ring to become the Green Lantern, and he can do that through the willpower to create this suit and go into his powers, green energy from the inside out creates this suit. And he is, when he’s brought to Oa for the first time, they map his body, he’s the first human being to be a green lantern. So they don’t really know what he’s made of, so we have this really cool sequence where they dissect and scan Hal Jordan and the ring creates this suit for the first time for a human being.”
4:33 Addresses rumors that Michael Clarke Duncan will voice Kilowog. Says they’ve talked about him “very very seriously” but they haven’t made their final decision on the voice of Kilowog yet. Says there won’t be any more big names announced for the cast.
5:15 How many Green Lanterns will be featured? Says they featured 25 fully CG-animated Green Lantern characters besides Kilowog, Tomar-Ra and Sinestro. Besides that, there are 25 “key Lantern” characters featured throughout.
5:58 How much of the movie takes place on Oa? Says around 25-30% of the film takes place on Oa. Talks about the detail going into creating the planet.
7:07 Talks about his custom-made Green Lantern sneakers, New Balance 993s, and shows them to the camera. Features the oath on the inside of the sneaker and a Green Lantern logo on the back.
8:43 What parts of the merchandising excites him most? Says the toys coming out of the Mattel line is fantastic.
9:22 What about the ring? Says there will be versions of the ring that light up. There’s a replica of the lantern as well, and a special edition that lights up when a special version of the ring is held up to it.
10:31 Are there Easter Eggs to other future DC character films? Says there aren’t for other characters, but there are “other kinds of easter eggs one might find,” relevant to the Green Lantern universe.
11:10 Talks about casting. Says they knew Ryan was right for the role on the spot. Tested a bunch of different actresses opposite Ryan and his chemistry with Blake Lively was “brilliant.”
12:12 Filming in New Orleans. Talks about the benefit of filming in the city and why they chose it. Being a city on the water, it was easy to create Coast City. They also have a brand new shooting stage, a screening room for dailies and 3 sound stages.
13:15 Is this the most challenging film he’s done so far?
14:09 Talks about using 3D. Says they knew they were going 3D before they started filming. Watched lots of conversion tests until they felt comfortable.
14:57 Future projects? Says he’s still absorbed in Green Lantern at the moment, but they’re also working on a sequel script for the film already.

http://collider.com/donald-de-line-i...lantern/83733/

**6souls** · 2011-04-03 20:33

**ZarakiKujata** · 2011-04-03 20:37

CGI looks better now kind of.

**Fievel** · 2011-04-03 21:33

New trailer actually really makes me want to see this movie, lol

**6souls** · 2011-04-22 01:26

**Fievel** · 2011-04-22 01:41

Do want

**Lordender** · 2011-04-22 02:49

I saw that being filmed down in the city, can't wait to see it.

**6souls** · 2011-04-26 18:49

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News has just come our way that Warner Bros. will be spending an addtional $9 million on visual effects for The Green Lantern. The cost of its roughly 1,400 visual effects is more than $9 million over the $45 million original f/x budget. That budget is on the low side for a vfx-heavy tentpole, but 3D hadn't been taken into account in the original budget.The studio has even had to hire more vfx houses to help the team who is alreayd working overtime to meet the film's June 17 release date. The recent footage from the film shows exactly where that money has been going to.

Green Lantern will surely meet it's deadline, but other effects-heavy films continue to scramble. The last minute outsourcing and heavy pace is often par for the course on most tentpoles that have a ton of visual-effects these days. Lately it has been very common for "troubled" projects and the problem's growing, with "troubled" the new normal. According to professionals in the biz, if crunches continue to mount, there may be a time when some vfx-laden tentpoles dont' meet their deliver date. That has not happened since Titanic was released. When a tentpole is forced to change dates it creates a domino effect on a studio and it's rivals, exhibitors, tie-in products and hurts the overall bottom line.

Here is what Victoria Alonso, Marvel exec VP of Visual Effects, had to say:

"I think the day (the system) breaks is the day everyone will revise their thinking. Until that day comes, filmmakers are going to push it to the limit. I think it's sad that we will have to watch one of us fail to learn our lesson."

Warner Bros. is not the only major studio having to deal with this issue, according to Alonso. Paramount's Captain America is on a shorter schedule than Marvel prefers, and "We are feeling the heat for it." For Transformers: Dark of the Moon at least one vfx studio has gone to seven-day weeks, 12 hours a day, and canceled the Easter Sunday holiday for its vfx artists.

As I stated earlier, the work that's been put into Green Lantern looks as though it has paid off. Each time I watch the WonderCon footage (linked above), my excitement continues to grow. When the first trailer premiered I thought the film looked horrible (along with many other fans). The buzz is now back on track in my opinion for the film and it is going to be one hell of a cool film.

The next year will have a lot of movies that could end up having to hire more vfx and spend more money to meet deadlines. Keep in mind we have Superman: Man of Steel, The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises and The Amazing Spider-Man. It will be interesting to see what steps that Weta Digital will take on The Hobbit, in 3D at 48 fps to make it's deadline.

http://geektyrant.com/news/2011/4/26...ntern-vfx.html
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118035870