Green Arrow is the latest superhero in play, sort of, with Blade: Trinity writer/director David Goyer in charge. Except here’s the thing, Goyer isn’t really making a Green Arrow movie. It’s more like a superhero in prison movie, which should go over big with the gay spandex fetishist crowd.
According to a story picked up by Coming Soon from Wizard Universe, Goyer’s movie is called Super Max and it’s about “a wrongly convicted Green Arrow being whisked away to the super max prison for out-of-control heroes and villains.” Basically it’s an excuse for one big superhero/villain cage match, with Arrow as our window into it.
Except he’ll only be Green Arrow for about ten minutes. Then Goyer says his secret identity is revealed, he’s unmasked, and hauled off to prison along with all the usual brightly colored fun we’d expect from the superhero genre. I mean, even Batman has a cool mask. Green Arrow will just be this dude who becomes some other dude’s prison bitch. That ain’t fun.
Still, give Goyer some credit. He’s trying to come up with something different. The comic book hero adaptation business could use that. We can only sit through so many origin stories before they get old. Though failing to be original didn’t seem to hurt Ghost Rider much now did it? Judging by this year’s box office results, originality is something of a curse. Black Snake Moan, The Lookout, and now Grindhouse have all been tremendous box office flops while stuff like Ghost Rider makes bank. Maybe Goyer should just get an MS Word copy of the script for Spider-Man 2 and use global search and replace to replace “Spider-Man” with “Green Arrow". It’ll be a huge hit.
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Ok, the idea of a hero in a supervillain jail is great ... but Green Arrow? That's pretty random. And really, why would Green Arrow (powers: can use a bow and arrow) be sent to a prison for "out-of-control super heroes and villains" and not just a normal prison?
Plus, the Green Arrow comic was recently cancelled ... I doubt that is how DC Comics supports a potential movie license.
I can see this concept being turned into an episode of Smallville (which also features Green Arrow), not a feature.
"After Kevin Smith abandoned it, Green Arrow seemed to be dead in the water."
I never abandoned "Green Arrow". I abandoned "Green Hornet" - and only as a director (I wrote a script, but backed off of directing the flick before I even put pen to paper on the screenplay).
Neither flick is to be confused with the once-rumored "Green Lantern" flick that Jack Black was supposedly circling.
However, if you're curious as to what's in Soylent Green, IM me. You'll never believe it...
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Green Arrow is the latest superhero in play, sort of, with Blade: Trinity writer/director David Goyer in charge. Except here’s the thing, Goyer isn’t really making a Green Arrow movie. It’s more like a superhero in prison movie, which should go over big with the gay spandex fetishist crowd.
April 9th, 2007 at 22:12
Ok, the idea of a hero in a supervillain jail is great ... but Green Arrow? That's pretty random. And really, why would Green Arrow (powers: can use a bow and arrow) be sent to a prison for "out-of-control super heroes and villains" and not just a normal prison?
Plus, the Green Arrow comic was recently cancelled ... I doubt that is how DC Comics supports a potential movie license.
I can see this concept being turned into an episode of Smallville (which also features Green Arrow), not a feature.