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Christopher McQuarrie says he pitched Green Lantern and Man of Steel 2 to Warner Bros. and DC

July 16, 2019 by Gary Collinson

Every time that Warner Bros. and DC Films are looking for a director on one of their comic book movies, you can rest assured that it’s only a matter of time before a rumour surfaces linking the likes of George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road), Matthew Vaughn (X-Men: First Class) and Christopher McQuarrie (Mission: Impossible – Fallout) to the job.

In the case of McQuarrie, he’s been strongly linked to both Green Lantern Corps and Man of Steel 2 on a number of occasions over the years, and now the director has revealed that he did indeed pitch both movies to Warner Bros. but failed to get a bite from the studio.

“Green Lantern was a written proposal. Superman was a pitch,” wrote McQuarrie on Twitter. “[The Green Lantern proposal] tied into the Superman movie that Henry Cavill and I were proposing. No takers. The studios have never cared for my original ideas. They prefer that I fix their broken ones… They never said no. They just never moved on it. This was just before Fallout was released. And no, I would not reconsider. There’s too many other things I want to do…. I must tell you, the possibility of my doing a superhero movie is remote in the extreme.”

McQuarrie recently committed himself to Mission: Impossible 7 and Mission: Impossible 8, with the two sequels set to shoot back-to-back for release in 2021 and 2022 respectively, and based on his comments above, it seems the possibility of a McQuarrie-helmed superhero movie may have now passed.

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: DC, DC Extended Universe, Green Lantern, green lantern corps, Man of Steel 2, Superman

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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