Christopher McQuarrie on Why He Won't Direct Green Lantern Corps

The DCEU is currently looking for someone to helm a Green Lantern Corps movie, and one recent name that was considered was said to have been Mission Impossible's Christpher McQuarrie. McQuarrie apparently turned down the job to direct, and he goes on detail as to why he ultimately passed.

Taking to Collider during a Q&A panel, McQuarrie explained that he didn't take the project because there wasn't enough material for him to build on. McQuarrie says:

"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.' Bullsh*t f***in' words. You're a director! You're a visionary, that's your job."

If anything, I'd prefer that McQuarrie pass if he wasn't really that invested in the source material. I think that Green Lantern actually has a very interesting world to present, and I'd prefer to have someone on the helm who actually understood the characters.

Ever since he was fired from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, some fans thought that James Gunn was actually a good choice to helm the film. We know he can write character chemistry really well, and add that to a film about magic ring-wearing space cops, and we may have a hit Green Lantern movie in the making.

For now, updates have been scarce about Green Lantern Corps, but we do know that WB is trying to get the project off the ground. With Flash, Birdsof Prey, and possibly The Batman coming out in 2020, we might see Green Lantern Corps finally hit cinemas come 2021.

No release date has been set for Green Lantern Corps.

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