
A piece of Parallax inside the corpse enters Hammond, giving him telepathic and telekinetic powers at the cost of his sanity. Scientist Hector Hammond is summoned by his father, Senator Robert Hammond, to a secret government facility to perform an autopsy on Abin Sur's body under the watchful eye of Amanda Waller. Hal, disheartened by his extreme training sessions and Sinestro's doubts, quits and returns to Earth, keeping the power ring and lantern. Hal says the oath and is whisked away to the Green Lantern Corps home planet of Oa, where he meets and trains with veteran Corps members Tomar-Re, Kilowog, and Corps leader Sinestro, who believes he is unfit and fearful. Hal Jordan, a cocky test pilot working at Ferris Aircraft, is chosen by the ring and transported to the crash site, where the dying Abin Sur appoints him a Green Lantern, telling him to take the lantern and speak the oath. Parallax feeds on their fear to gain strength before pursuing and mortally wounding Abin Sur, who escapes and crash-lands on Earth where he commands his power ring to find a worthy successor. In the present day, Parallax escapes from his prison after becoming strengthened by an encounter with crash survivors who had accidentally fallen into the dugout where Parallax was imprisoned on the abandoned planet. One such Green Lantern, Abin Sur of Sector 2814, defeats the malevolent being Parallax and imprisons him in the Lost Sector on the desolate planet Ryut. They divide the universe into 3,600 sectors, with one Green Lantern per sector. īillions of years ago, the Guardians of the Universe use the green essence of willpower to create an intergalactic police force called the Green Lantern Corps. scrapped plans for a sequel, opting instead to use Man of Steel as the official start of the DC Extended Universe, two years after Green Lantern 's release. However, due to the film's negative reception and disappointing box office performance, Warner Bros. It was also originally intended to start a film franchise based on DC characters. The film underperformed at the box office, grossing $219 million against a production budget of $200 million. Criticism was aimed at its poor writing, bad CGI, comedic tone and lack of faithfulness to the source material. Green Lantern was released on June 17, 2011, and received generally negative reviews. The film was converted to 3D during its post-production stage. Most of the live-action actors were cast between July 2009 and February 2010, and filming took place from March to August 2010 in Louisiana. Martin Campbell was brought on board in February 2009 after Berlanti was forced to vacate the director's position. The film first entered development in 1997 progress remained stalled until Greg Berlanti was hired to write and direct in October 2007. Hal is given a ring that grants him superpowers, and must confront Parallax, who threatens to upset the balance of power in the universe. The film tells the story of Hal Jordan, a test pilot who is selected to become the first human member of an intergalactic police force called the Green Lantern Corps. This was the first DC film since Catwoman not to be involved with Legendary Pictures.

The film stars Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, Angela Bassett, and Tim Robbins, with Martin Campbell directing a script by Greg Berlanti and comic book writers Michael Green and Marc Guggenheim, which was subsequently rewritten by Michael Goldenberg. Green Lantern is a 2011 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name.
