>>98737014>Green Lantern has enough material to be the next Star WarsNo it doesn't.
Star Wars does something Green Lantern has never had to do: worldbuilding.
In Star Wars - right from the very first movie - you have the background characters and locations that are never explained but still *feel* like they're part of a functional world. Nobody walks from the cantina onto the Death Star bridge - you get there by getting in a starship, which has a speed, which isn't invulnerable, which can't just wish itself out of danger.
In Green Lantern you have a guy who ostensibly lives in the real world but has the magical power of wishes bestowed upon him by benevolent ancients of the universe. When he gets attacked it's by a cloud of shit that, spoiler alert, he'll later blame for just going crazy with power one day and murdering a whole bunch of people before fucking off into space until the cops stop looking for him.
Even the limited worldbuilding of DC - comically named cities with crime problems that either indicate extremist libertarians took over the federal government centuries ago or the entire planet is basically fucked - doesn't mesh so much as mash into Green Lantern. It's a fucking joke - space cop, teaming up with all these other vigilantes (who it has to be said are either super lazy or super ineffective) can't stop Gotham or Shit City or wherever the hell the fucking faster-than-time Flash is supposed to hang out from being dumps. He's got magic powers and a whole army of space cops - but they don't even make it a procedural thing where he's trying to prove the benefits of focusing the Corps on one planet at a time - taking out criminals who can't wish themselves off the fucking planet with their magic rings - until crime rates on the worst offenders - of which Earth has to be high on the list - are dealt with.
No, no, he just flies around being a cunt who gets everything through the power of wishing, even before aliens give him a magic ring.
