The Green Lantern costume for the movie has been something of a “work in progress” experiment since the day that they announced that it would be an all CG affair. Today let’s take a look at what a further developed CG costume looks like on actor Ryan Reynolds.
I like the Green Lantern comic book enough that I will blindly see this movie despite whatever warnings and apprehension I may have regarding some of the art direction. Good, now that that’s out of the way I want to make it perfectly clear that I hate the re-designs to the Green Lantern corps costumes. I understand what they are going for by trying to give his costume an eerie-organic-alien look. I get that. They treat the uniform as if it’s “alive” which in my mind belongs in the Spider-man universe and nowhere near this set of intergalactic police. Seriously, if this is what Hal’s costume looks like then I can only expect further mutilating redesigns with Guy Gardner’s costume when it’s time to introduce his character.
Not everything I have to say is negative. If you look closely enough you’ll notice that there’s some maturation of the costume of today and the costume we were presented with both on the cover of Entertainment Weekly and the first official teaser trailer. Hal’s costume looks a bit more “scaly” which is more in tune with the uniforms/costumes of the rest of the corps and I appreciate the effort to give more consistency between the officers. It looks like they added a few more shades of green to the costume and decided to have the “green lanterns light” more emphatically emit from the chest icon which is appreciably better than the stone wash look it had before.
Overall I have decided that I will have to concede. This is not my Green Lantern. This Green Lantern is younger, scalier, and much more alien than what I’d initially hoped to see and Green Lantern’s lantern no longer looks like a lantern and instead looks like an alien douchebag. I really hope I’m wrong about this movie and find out I’m just being paranoid because I truly do like the character. Let’s hope.
