50 Fun Facts About Green Lantern

Who plays Hal Jordan in the 2011 Green Lantern film?

Bradley Cooper auditioned but kept slipping into Christian Bale's Batman voice.

What is Hal Jordan's job when the ring finds him?

He works for Ferris Aircraft, run by his childhood sweetheart Carol Ferris.

Which dying alien Green Lantern passes his ring to Hal?

Temuera Morrison spent four to five hours in prosthetics for the role.

What is the name of the Green Lanterns' homeworld?

Ryut is the desolate planet where Abin Sur imprisoned the film's villain.

Into how many sectors did the Guardians divide the universe, one Lantern per sector?

Earth sits in Sector 2814, which is why that number is a Lantern in-joke.

Which emotion powers the Green Lantern rings?

The yellow energy of fear is the forbidden opposite, and it is what created the film's villain.

The film's villain, Parallax, was originally what?

It broke into the physical plane by possessing that Guardian's body; Clancy Brown voiced it.

Who plays Sinestro, Hal's mentor, in the film?

He said the character's widow's peak and thin moustache were originally based on David Niven.

What does Sinestro do in the film's mid-credits scene?

His suit and eyes turn yellow, teasing a sequel that was cancelled three months after release.

Who plays Hector Hammond, the scientist whose head swells after exposure to the yellow energy of fear?

He prepared with an eccentric Tulane biologist; Tim Robbins plays his father, Senator Hammond.

Who plays Carol Ferris?

She trained with Cirque du Soleil acrobats and reportedly beat Eva Green, Keri Russell, Diane Kruger and Jennifer Garner to the role.

Which Oscar winner voices the bird-like Lantern Tomar-Re?

He joked he had already voiced an owl and a pelican, so half-bird, half-fish, part-lizard was a step up.

Who voices the drill-sergeant Lantern Kilowog?

A fan of the comics, he pointed out that Kilowog once fought Superman to a tie.

Which future Thor: Ragnarok director plays Ferris Aircraft engineer Thomas Kalmaku?

A Warner casting agent spotted him in Boy, which he had written and directed.

Who plays government agent Amanda Waller in the 2011 film?

Viola Davis played the character later in Suicide Squad; Bassett joked 'Well, I'm not 300 pounds'.

Who directed Green Lantern (2011)?

The Casino Royale director later admitted he should not have taken the job.

Which writer-director, hired in 2007, later said he had 'nothing to do with the finished product'?

He went on to build the Arrowverse on TV.

Which comedian was to star in a 2004 action-comedy version of Green Lantern scripted by Robert Smigel?

Kevin Smith and Quentin Tarantino had both been offered the property earlier.

Which US city doubled for Coast City during filming?

It was originally due to shoot at Fox Studios Australia before moving to Louisiana.

What was Green Lantern's production budget?

It grossed just $237 million, and Warner Bros. scrapped its plans for a shared universe.

Green Lantern's 66% second-weekend drop was then a superhero record. Which two films pushed it to third place?

It had opened at number one with $53.2 million.

What Rotten Tomatoes approval rating does Green Lantern (2011) hold?

The consensus called it 'noisy, overproduced, and thinly written'; audiences gave it a B CinemaScore.

Who composed the Green Lantern film score?

He had co-scored Batman Begins and The Dark Knight with Hans Zimmer.

Reynolds took the role after which studio showed no interest in making a Deadpool film?

Deadpool finally arrived in 2016 and has mocked Green Lantern ever since.

Which 2013 film replaced Green Lantern as the intended launch of a DC shared universe?

Warner Bros. abandoned the Green Lantern sequel plans in September 2011.

What was the job of Alan Scott, the original 1940 Green Lantern, before a magic lantern spoke to him?

Martin Nodell created him with Bill Finger for All-American Comics #16, and he crafted his own ring from the lantern.

What material could the original Green Lantern's ring not affect?

The later Corps rings famously struggled with the colour yellow instead.

Which editor reinvented Green Lantern as science-fiction hero Hal Jordan in 1959?

Hal debuted in Showcase #22 with art by Gil Kane, who based his face on a famous neighbour.

Hal Jordan's original look was modelled by artist Gil Kane on which actor?

Kane and Sid Greene handled the art in the early years, with John Broome writing.

Which Green Lantern, a high-profile African-American superhero, was originally chosen as Hal's alternate?

Wayne T. Carr filmed him for the Snyder Cut of Justice League before Warner Bros. swapped in Martian Manhunter.

Which 1990s Green Lantern was a struggling artist whose constructs were unusually elaborate?

He got the ring after Hal Jordan destroyed the Corps during his villainous phase.

Which Green Lantern is a Lebanese-American former mechanic with a rare precognitive power?

He was introduced in the 2010s and partnered with Jessica Cruz.

Jessica Cruz was originally host to a ring that chose people who had succumbed to what?

She suffered crippling anxiety and depression before breaking free of it and becoming a Green Lantern.

Which science-fiction novelist wrote the Green Lantern oath, in issue #9 of the Alan Scott comic?

The author of The Stars My Destination liked rhymed couplets; the phrase 'blackest night' later named a crossover event.

Which hero was added as co-star from issue #76 in 1970, as the pair travelled America confronting real issues?

Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams wrote and drew the run, including 'Snowbirds Don't Fly', in which Speedy is revealed as a heroin addict.

What did DC rename Alan Scott between 1995 and 2003 to distinguish him from newer Lanterns?

His powers were later retconned to come from 'the Green', the mystical power of nature.

After turning villain and dying, Hal Jordan returned as which supernatural DC entity?

Geoff Johns then restored him as Green Lantern in Rebirth (2004-05).

Which 2007 Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver storyline introduced the emotional spectrum of lanterns?

Johns saw it as part two of a trilogy that started with Rebirth and ended with Blackest Night.

Alan Scott's Golden Age enemies included Vandal Savage and which zombie?

Most of his 1940s stories were set in New York, and his solo book was cancelled in 1949.

Where did Green Lantern place on IGN's 2011 list of the Top 100 Comic Book Heroes?

Green Lantern is one of DC's longest-lasting sets of characters, going back to 1940.

Political pundits use 'Green Lanternism' to describe what?

The idea is that a president's powers are imagined to be limited only by resolve, like the ring.

Which Marvel character is a pastiche of Green Lantern?

He is a member of the Squadron Supreme, Marvel's riff on the Justice League.

Which two actors were cast as Guy Gardner and Alan Scott for the shelved HBO Max Green Lantern series?

In 2022 the project was reworked into a solo show for another Lantern instead.

Where did the ring itself get its start in the 2011 film's title character, before it chose Hal?

Abin Sur crash-lands on Earth after being mortally wounded and orders the ring to find a worthy successor.

How does Hal finally destroy the film's villain?

He passes out afterwards and is rescued by Sinestro, Kilowog and Tomar-Re.

In which comic did the original Green Lantern debut in July 1940?

Martin Nodell created him with scripting help from Bill Finger for All-American Publications, one of the firms that later merged into DC.

In which comic was Hal Jordan introduced in 1959?

Gil Kane and Sid Greene handled the art with writer John Broome in the early years.

How often did Alan Scott's magic ring have to be recharged by touching the lantern?

Its other classic weakness was that it could not directly affect anything made of wood.

In the acclaimed 'Snowbirds Don't Fly' story, which sidekick develops a heroin addiction?

Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams' issues #85 and 86 were praised by The New York Times and Newsweek as proof comics were growing up.

Which two actors were cast in 2024 as Hal Jordan and John Stewart for the HBO series Lanterns?

The series, part of James Gunn's DC Universe, replaced the earlier multi-era Berlanti version.