The current plight of The Flash has drawn many comparisons to Green Lantern, which also happened to be a $200 million DC Comics adaptation that had spent years in development hell, only to emerge from the other side of the tunnel and find itself shunned by critics and paying customers, all while coming under fire for its lackluster CGI.
The similarities are there for all to see, but you’ve got to wonder if the Scarlet Speedster’s solo debut will continue following the trajectory of Hal Jordan’s live-action introduction by having the people who worked on it decide to spend the next decade and change burning it to the ground whenever they get a chance.
Leading man Ryan Reynolds’ disdain of Green Lantern has become the stuff of legend, even if he did finally get around to watching it for the first time and admit if may not have been as bad as he remembered, with co-star Taika Waititi opting to pretend he was never part of it in the first place, all while director Martin Campbell came clean and admitted it was terrible.
Ironically, with The Flash now playing in theaters and drumming up very little in the way of business – first-time or otherwise – Green Lantern has decided that now would be the perfect time to mount a comeback on streaming. Per FlixPatrol, the critical and commercial catastrophe has resurfaced on the Prime Video worldwide watch-list, because apparently terrible superhero spectaculars are worthy of revisiting on the small screen, if not at the multiplex.