Meanwhile--Another popular comic book hero is getting set to light up the big screen...
Michael Fleming of Variety:
Warner Bros. has set Greg Berlanti to direct "Green Lantern," a live-action take on the DC Comics superhero.
Berlanti will write the script with Marc Guggenheim and Michael Green. Donald De Line will produce; Andrew Haas is exec producer.
Berlanti hopes to make the jump to big-budget fantasy fare after serving as writer and exec producer on character-driven TV series "Dirty Sexy Money" "Brothers & Sisters," "Everwood," "Jack & Bobby" and "Dawson's Creek." He previously directed 2000 feature "The Broken Hearts Club."
"Green Lantern" was hatched in 1940. Hal Jordan, a second-generation test pilot, is an ordinary man who has been charged with defending a sector of the universe.
Warner Bros. and DC Comics assigned the project to De Line, who is currently in Morocco shooting "Body of Lies," the Ridley Scott-directed WB drama that stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe.
Guggenheim, who works with Berlanti as a writer-producer on "Brothers & Sisters," wrote the Marvel comic books "Amazing Spider-Man," "Wolverine" and "Blade." , the "Heroes" co-exec producer who worked with Berlanti on "Everwood" and "Jack & Bobby," wrote the Marvel Comics title "Superman/Batman and was a writer-producer on "Smallville."
I have always been a GL fan and especially enjoyed reading his monthly adventures in the 80's.
I was also a regular viewer of the short-lived TV series Jack And Bobby; Berlanti knows how to write good character drama---Guggenheim is a good guy to have around for help with all of the daring do stuff...
Let the casting rumors begin...
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