First Footage From "Green Lantern" Description!
Sat, July 24, 2010 
At this very moment the Green Lantern panel is under way in San Diego at comic con. They've already shown the footage and lucky for us Superherohype has posted their description:
It's essentially a teaser which starts off with a glowing green ball and an alien voiceover that says:
"Welcome inhabitants of sector 2814. The Guardians have chosen you as candidates for enlistment but before you can be recruited, you must be tested. The light you see before you is controlled by your will. Focus on the light. If you will it, it will be. Now, focus."
That ball of green light continues to pulse and get larger and larger before it blasts the screen with a wave of green light.
We then hear Reynolds' voiceover saying the Green Lantern oath and a quick montage of footage cut together that went by very fast, including a close-up of Reynolds as Hal Jordan, his hand holding the ring, we see him in street clothes being pulled upwards and see a later scene in which he's taking on criminals by using the ring to form a giant fist that throws a roundhouse punch knocking out a bunch of guys. We get a very brief glimpse of Hector Hammond and Tomar Re. (We presume that the voiceover was Abin Sur, but we're not sure.)
After the oath is done, we hear the original alien voiceover saying, "The choice has been made."
The light we saw earlier starts forming into the GL emblem and then we see the logo is "Await Further Contact Summer 2011."
In addition to the footage shown the cast and crew came out to take questions and talk about the film. Ryan Reynolds said he was influenced by Han Solo and Chuck Yaeger for the part of Hal Jordan, awesome!
Martin Campbell also talked about Hal's relationship with his father Martin as seen in the "Secret Origins" arc and how that's going to play a large part in the movie, finally culminating at the end of the movie when Hal becomes a Green Lantern. So does this mean the film will play out similar to Batman Begins but on an intergalactic scale, it certainly sounds like it.
Unlike previous years a lot of the footage shown for the films being promoted at comic con this year has been released online. Hopefully this means later today or maybe tomorrow we can update this with the actual footage shown today, fingers crossed!
Reader Comments (4)
I am still almost in a dream state at this point. I can't believe this movie is actually being made, and we are getting descriptions of the teaster footage. It's almost too much to take in.
I can't wait until we get the actual first trailer. I'll be watching it over and over lol
The giant green fist sounds retarded, sorry fellow fanboys I just can't get behind that.
The fist along with the rest of the shapes he's able to form are part of the mythos. The only problem being it sounds like it'll come of cheesy as hell on screen. I'm sure they would love for it to be in the veign of batman begins on an intergalactic scale, but this sounds a lot more like the campy 60's batman tv show. Hopefully they prove me wrong but I'm not escited at all by what I'm hearing.