Christopher McQuarrie has explained why he isn’t attached to direct Green Lantern Corps.
DC and Warner Bros have been trying for quite some time to get a new Green Lantern movie up and running and there have been a number of high profile stars and directors rumoured to be in contention.
One of the biggest names discussed for helming Green Lantern Corps has been Mission: Impossible – Fallout director Christopher McQuarrie, who has received huge praise for his work on that film. But McQuarrie, who has met with DC, says he won’t, in fact, be directing the film because of its underdeveloped state.
Explaining to Collider, the director said: “That’s kind of the world that it’s in, and when I came in on Green Lantern I was like, ‘Here’s how I would do Green Lantern,’ and they were like, ‘Ah, but you know,’ and I said, ‘Well, that’s what I would do,’ and they said, ‘Well, will you direct it?’ And I said, ‘No, ’cause there’s no script.’ And they said, ‘Well you write the script,’ and I said, ‘But I may not be the guy to direct,’ like don’t make it a McQuarrie movie, make it the greatest Green Lantern you can make it. We don’t know what that is tonally. We don’t know what any of that stuff is until we get under the hood, and I may be the worst guy in the world. You may end up with Tim Burton’s Green Lantern, and I don’t have that pride of authorship. I’m not the guy who comes in and goes, ‘It’s mine, from the visionary director.’ Bullshit fuckin’ words. You’re a director! You’re a visionary, that’s your job.”
It seems from McQuarrie’s comments here, that the film is a long way off and DC was unsure of what direction it wants to go in. However, things may well have changed since, given that Geoff Johns recently signed on to produce the movie and work on a new script.
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