I turned Jack around enough that he wanted to do a movie. And mine and mine and mine Not yours' Beware your fears made into light. Around 2004, Warner Brothers hired Smigel to write a funny Green Lantern screenplay. So, to me, that was the validation I take from the experience. Well burn you all-that is your fate' Whats mine is mine and mine and mine. 'After I wrote the script, he read it and did want to do it. 'He wasn’t really interested in doing any type of superhero thing,' Smigel said. Then the internet and Jack Blacks attempted Green Lantern movie happened. Green Lantern is a 2011 American Superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name. Never officially attached, it took the writer's work in order to get him to change his mind. and Late Night with Conan O’Brien fame) to write a comedic version of Green Lantern with Jack Black in mind as the star. had commissioned Robert Smigel (of S.N.L. Automatically, that’s a comedic premise.'Įven more interesting, Smigel was told to write the project with Jack Black in mind for the lead, despite the fact that Black wasn't really big on the idea. In 2004, reports surfaced that Warner Bros. According to Smigel, the plot would have involved the ring going to the wrong guy and feature a lot of goofy visual jokes.'What appealed to me about it on a comedic level was that, in order to be a superhero, this requires no physical skill or talent,' said Smigel.

Though the writer did say that he did his research into the world of the DC Comics hero, the approach was quite different than what Martin Campbell and crew came up with. Vanity Fair recently had an interview with Smigel to talk about the project, which was originally planned as a comedy.

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