![]() Thor: Ragnarok will arrive in theaters on November 3. If the finished product is anywhere near the same league as the trailer, the film should be something of an instant classic. I think he’s learned on a lot of the films he’s done, you’ve got to discuss it and make sure you get it right the first time. Chris especially is very smart and very savvy when it comes to story. So we just want to take the time to make sure we get stuff right. There’s one way you can do it, is just bust on through and try and make your day, and you get stuff in the can, but it’s basically worthless when you come to edit. We stopped for an hour to just keep working a scene to make sure we got it right, and to make sure that it made sense. But story is still king in my mind, and we worked a lot on the script. Usually it comes down to story, and the fact that they… I don’t know. At least in my view and apparently Waititi’s too. One of the things wrong with crummy superhero films? Not enough Fraggle Rock based promotional content. “I started realizing, ‘Oh I think I know what’s going wrong with these films.’” “I think I probably learned more watching a lot of other superhero movies, and a lot of big studio films,” he said. But very different to the way I do things.”Īccording to Waititi, it wasn’t Green Lantern that served as his cautionary tale. ![]() And he’s a great – he runs a set very, very well and very efficient. “I spent a long time just sitting around on set, and so I’d watch a lot of how Martin would run things. “When I was in, I was just determined to try and do a good job with the job I was doing there,” he explained. Waititi is very polite in explaining how he’s a different brand of director than the helmer of the Ryan Reynolds fronted picture. Waititi is helming the upcoming Marvel buddy picture Thor: Ragnarok and speaking with ComicBook he addressed his time as an actor on the set of Green Lantern. After all, he has a bit of first-hand experience thanks to the 2011 DC wreck Green Lantern. While there may have been a version of Green Lantern that played to Campbell’s strengths, it just wasn’t in the cards.Filmmaker and supernaturally handsome gentleman Taika Waititi has learned a lot about what not to do from subpar superhero movies. Campbell has helmed some of the James Bond franchise’s best entries as well as the BBC series Edge of Darkness and its film adaptation. Reynolds went on to truly become Wade Wilson/Deadpool-which is more than a definitive role. Green Lantern didn’t do anything good for DC or its respective genre, but that’s probably a good thing. After finally watching the film this year, Reynolds even said it wasn’t as bad as he thought it was. It’s worth mentioning that worse comic book movies have been made- Catwoman (2004), Jonah Hex (2010), and Fantastic Four (2015)-to name a few. It’s clear that the studio made mistakes during the production of Green Lantern and, given Campbell’s comments, he probably wasn’t in a position to save the project. Reynolds has accused the studio of rushing to make the film without a completed script to meet release dates and adhere to a cool poster. It’s certainly reasonable to assume Green Lantern suffered from studio interference similar to Suicide Squad (2016) and Justice League (2017). What do they say? Success has many fathers, failure has one. ![]() But directors always have to carry the can for the failures. Superhero movies are not my cup of tea, and for that reason, I shouldn’t have done it. Because with something like Bond - I love Bond, and I watched every Bond film before I ever directed it. That’s the point, and I’m partly responsible for that. "But you know what? The film did not work, really. That was something that I didn’t like very much. But at the time decided that he wanted the death of the father intercut with Hal plunging in the plane, and he saw these flashbacks come to him. It’s how his father dies in the air crash, which was a really good sequence. The point was, right at the beginning of the movie, there was a whole sequence where he’s an 11 year old kid. “We’ll put it this way: I did have my cut. When asked about Zack Snyder’s Justice League, David Ayer’s cut of the Suicide Squad, and whether or not there’s a Campbell cut of Green Lantern, the director said he shouldn’t have directed a superhero movie at all. A scene from Thor: Ragnarok depicts Karl Urban's Skurge in possession of various items - his twin rifles, for example - obtained during a visit to Earth. In a Screen Rant exclusive interview, Martin Campbell talked about directing Green Lantern. Director Taika Waititi slipped a memento from his time working on 2011's Green Lantern into Thor: Ragnarok. Related: Every Green Lantern Plan In Zack Snyder's Justice League Trilogy
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