Tarantino was offered GREEN LANTERN?

It’s certainly news to me that Quentin Tarantino was verbally offered Warner Bros. movie adaptation of DC comics hero Green Lantern and turned it down – citing more interest in making a movie about his own created superhero (his powers, origins, weakness, etc.) than an already established one.

“It wouldn’t be an existing comic book character,” he said. “I’m a writer. I’d want to use my imagination and not have to fight with geeks’ memories of how this character should be and, ‘Oh, I cast an actor as opposed to a bodybuilder’ or it’s not as good as the way [DC Comics artist] Neal Adams drew him.’ If I were to do something like that, I would want the fun of coming up with the superhero myself.”

However, it’s certainly not news that Tarantino is a comic book fan, as some of my peers suggest. Hello!, haven’t you ever seen a Tarantino movie? All the Fantastic Four references in Reservoir Dogs, the way he shot Kill Bill Vol. 1, the Superman speech of Kill Bill Vol. 2?

If anyone out there has the timescale of the WB/Lantern offer, I would love to hear when Warner Bros approached him on this. Conservatively, it must have been at least two years ago, as he mentions it was at a time when no script was written. So I would say sometime around Death Proof, then?