Martin Campbell twice resurrected James Bond from franchise killing movies when he made GOLDENEYE and CASINO ROYALE, both times bringing the exact entertainment audiences wanted out of their 007 at a time when the future of the character was looking very bleak indeed.
If it wasn’t for Campbell, maybe we wouldn’t have James Bond movies still being made right now.
Now Warner Bros. want him for GREEN LANTERN, replacing Greg Berlanti who was the last director to be attached, though his script he co-wrote with Marc Guggenheim and Michael Green is still expected to be used say Variety.
Campbell whose credits also include the two ZORRO movies and VERTICAL LIMIT, has just completed a remake of his own BBC thriller EDGE OF DARKNESS with Mel Gibson and Ray Winstone.
You can see why he has been chosen. He makes great character pieces (see his last Bond) which are stylish, grounded in reality (which will do what Nolan did for Batman here) and with top notch quality action.
The only thing I would say, is I hope he has a BIGGER VISION for this character, which is something he surely warrants. This is no ordinary superhero character.
The movie is now being fast tracked looking for a release in 2011.
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Too bad he’s a shit director with no eye for composition.
Tim Daly would be AWESOME as Hal Jordan. If they cast him this movie would be 75-percent perfect right there.
Tim Daly is a great actor, who looks great for his age. If they did want they would have a very specific filming window due to his comitments on Private Practice.
It seems like superhero movies are in style again, only now they’re treated as a huge deal. First it was Batman Begins, and then others such as Iron Man and The Hulk, with big name actors.
I enjoyed Casino Royale and Goldeneye to a lesser extent, so I’m curious about this project.
Superhero movie have been in style for 10 odd years now since blade and x men.
@ Madwelshboy
Yes they have, but that doesn’t mean that they have been as popular, mostly due to many of them that oversaturated the market with their mediocreness. I point Hulk (2003), Daredevil, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), Catowoman (2004), Elektra (2005), and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007).
Superhero/Comic book movies have sort of become watered down since the days of Blade and X-Men. My original point was that the trend is shifting towards Comic Book movies becoming serious projects with major actors willing to sign up.
By your logic, I could argue that superhero movies have been in style since 1990, because of the Batman series.
@ Trey
Actually you couldnt argue that, its clear that the success of the both Blade and Xmen are resposible for the reemergence for the comic book and superhero film genre in the 2000s after the critical failure of the batman films of the mid/late 1990s. Yes major actor are willing to sign now but that has been te case in the past also (Halle Berry, Ben Afflect and Sean Connery appeared in three of the films you have mentioned, each in their own right were considered as big name actor with all of them ocsar winners)
Yup. Madwelshboy is correct on that front.
But neither X-Men nor Blade had real movie stars (Wesley Snipes was on the way down, Huge Jackman, Halle Berry on the way up).
So I suppose it was the success of Spider-Man that really drew in the big guns. But yeah, Superhero movies have been in style for about a decade now.
To be honest though I miss the straight to video classics like Captain America, The Punisher and Tank Girl. The studios ruin everything…