Green Lantern director says the film could have been fantastic if Ryan Reynolds had written it

When Goldeneye AND Royale casino director Martin Campbell has been hired for the helm Green lantern In 2011, DC seemed to finally launch something great. The film had an expert director, a man of the ascent protagonist and one of the most iconic heroes of DC. But unfortunately, the final result was a mess.

Over a decade later, Campbell has no illusions about how the film has proved to be, but now he is saying that if something had changed, Green lantern it could actually work … the script, and more specifically, wants Ryan Reynolds He wrote it.

In a new interview with The Direct, Campbell opened the rocky experience:

“Oh, it’s quite right. You know, look, people didn’t like people. He didn’t fail, right? I was the director, so you know, of course, I take the heat for this, which is fine. But all I can say is that Ryan is a very funny guy, very funny. In reality we had a lot of fun in the film.”

Despite the way things turned out to be, Campbell had nothing but good things to say about Reynolds and co-protagonist Blake Lively:

“I really liked working with him and with Blake Lively. She too was fantastic. And it’s always, she has a large whisk, Sai, Ryan.”

He then continued saying that he would like Reynolds to have written the script:

“In fact, I want God who had written the script, and it would have been great. But he is always taking shots. And right enough. Even if, listening, it was a great success for him because he met Blake Lively.”

Reynolds has done for a long time Green lantern The football of many jokes, both in the interviews and in his Deadpool films. Campbell also targeted the screenplay of the film before. At the beginning of this year, he said:

“I am simply saying that I don’t think the script was fantastic. I also felt that parallax, our villain, was just a cloud with a face on it – literally, it’s all that it was. I think while all the characters were part of the story … Basically part of the comics, I think the story had remained desired.”

Despite his huge $ 200 million budget, Green lantern He fought at the box office, bringing only $ 237.2 million all over the world and ended up being a flop.

The film has even made fun of a sequel with Scores strongSinestro wears the yellow ring, creating a plot of the sinestro corps that has never seen the light of the day.

DC Studios is giving another blow to the green lantern Lantern The HBO series will bring Hal Jordan back, this time played by Kyle ChandlerTogether with John Stewart. It will be interesting to see how that series is.