Movie ACH: Burt Reynolds is Green Lantern

My challenge to you is to make plausible timeline with a much earlier Green Lantern film, starring Burt Reynolds as Hal Jordan. Bonus points if there's a Green Lantern/Green Arrow sequel and/or a Justice League sequel.
 
I said a "much earlier" Green Lantern film. I was leaning toward the 1970s. I should have clarified that. As for why, to be honest I just didn't like the Ryan Reynolds version and another Reynolds popped into my head, which I thought was funny until I put more thought into it. He's a big-name star. He's got a swagger that Hal Jordan fans always want. And if there's a Green Lantern-Green Arrow movie, his southernness would help sell him as a conservative contrast to his buddy Arrow.
 
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After the success of Superman II, Richard Donner is hired to direct a third film. The film focuses upon the marriage of Clark Kent to Lois Lane, whose happiness of broken by an invasion of Earth by Braniac. Superman ends up giving his life to destroy Brainiac and save his adopted home; in the end it is revelaed that Lois is pregant with his baby. For decades, the people argue over whether the Superman or Star Wars trilogy were the better film series.
In 1982, going off the success of the Superman series, DC greenlights a film version of Green Latern, which is to take place in the same universe as the Superman films. Burt Reynolds is chosen as the star to play the socky and arrogant Hal Jordan. Although older than many wish, Reynolds brings star power to the role.
This eventually leads to the greenlighting of a series of comic book based films throughout the 1980s. Marvel soon gets into the game by producing Spider-Man, staring Jeff Goldblum as Peter Parker, and quickly also created a big-screen adapation of their television show 'The Incrediblel Hulk" in 1986. This lead to "The Avengers" 1987.
The comic book movie trend is often seen as reaching its height with the Tim Burton/Daniel Day Lewis "Batman" series of 1986-92" (the first of which featured Johnny Depp as the Joker in then Oscar winning performance) despite the controversy caused by Day-Lewis' arrest in 1985, stemming from his arrest, and later release, after beating a mugger near to death while on 'patrol' while researching his role.
 
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After the success of Superman II, Richard Donner is hired to direct a third film. The film focuses upon the marriage of Clark Kent to Lois Lane, whose happiness of broken by an invasion of Earth by Braniac. Superman ends up giving his life to destroy Brainiac and save his adopted home; in the end it is revelaed that Lois is pregant with his baby. For decades, the people argue over whether the Superman or Star Wars trilogy were the better film series.
Given that suuperman isnt human, whos the father?:)
 
Well done, Dan. But hold on. DC makes a Green Lantern film around 1980, and there'd STILL be an Avengers film before a JLA one?!

The sad part is that's probably true.

Also, I think Jeff Goldblum would also be a little old for the role.
Given that suuperman isnt human, whos the father?:)
Obviously Jor-El was horribly injured and turned into the cyborg Brainiac.
Or into Luthor, upon being driven mad by baldness!

Now can anyone make this happen earlier still?
 
George Reeves gets the funding for a (relatively) big-budget Superman movie in 1959, which is a big success with kids across the nation. Superhero movies (almost non-existent OTL between the era of the serials and the late 70s) become part of the standard junior fare and teenage drive-in stuff during the 60s. In the late 60s, some more "experimental", or adult-oriented, or even 60s pop-themed movies are made (the Beatles do a musical superhero movie as well as Yellow Submarine. Martin Scorsese makes a bloody, "serious" superhero film. [1] By the late 70s, Hollywood is ready to make a superhero movie about a tough, wisecracking Man with No Fear and his magic ring...

Bruce


[1] Possibly called "Watchmen." :D
 
Very nice, B Munro. I don't think anything particularly bloody needs to precede a Green Lantern film, but it's a good thought. What could lead to a Superman movie in 1959, though? People didn't want to spend much money on making superhero things in the 50s.
 
Is this before or after Burt Reynolds debuts as James Bond?

I'm thinking that while reading "Green Lantern" comic books on the set of what will be an absolute smash hit with him as 007, Burt will think of a way to take advantage of the studio's zeal to keep the super-star happy...
 
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