![]() ![]() “You’ve run out of abilities, so you conjure up the best superhero that exists and let him solve the problem,” Smigel said. Smigel told Vanity Fair that this last construct would have been perfect for what was essentially “the laziest Green Lantern in history.” ![]() The end of the film would have seen Jud quite literally borrow from Richard Donner’s 1978 Superman by creating a green version of the Man of Steel to turn back time by flying around the Earth. Elsewhere, a major potential cameo was set up when Jud conjured up a construct of a green-tinged Britney Spears. During his training with the Green Lantern Corps, Jud generates several sets of Sharon Stone’s legs from Basic Instinct to fire at Kilowog. Automatically, that’s a comedic premise.”Įlsewhere the pop culture references fly thick and fast. He explained, “What appealed to me about it on a comedic level was that, in order to be a superhero, this requires no physical skill or talent. Smigel told Vanity Fair in 2011 that after researching the character, he honed in on “the premise that the wrong guy gets the ring and can do all kinds of goofy visual jokes-because the visuals are so potentially ridiculous.” But then one of the key facets of Smigel’s pitch for the film centered on Jud’s struggles to use the ring properly, resulting in any number of weird and wonderful constructs. Unfortunately, a malfunction would instead see it go to Jud who, at that precise moment, was on television attempting to eat the carcass of a dead coyote.Ī bizarre gross-out moment played for laughs, as well as social commentary on the reality TV boom of that era, Jud’s impressive gastronomic abilities would come to the fore later in the script when he is required to eat an entire snake from the tail up. In the script, a dying Abin Sur would have attempted to bestow the power of the ring onto any number of worthy candidates including a legless climber and woman missionary. However, in place of an introduction showcasing the tragic death of Jordan’s father and his journey to becoming a pilot, the script instead centered on an entirely new ring-bearer named Jud Plato (Black), a slacker and the star of a Fear Factor-style reality show called “The Dare Diner.” In June 2006, Smigel submitted a draft for his version of the Green Lantern that used Hal Jordan’s origin story as a jumping off point. Roughly 20 years after Murphy’s failed attempts to launch a Green Lantern movie, Robert Smigel, a veteran Saturday Night Live writer and creator of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, was tasked with putting a Jack Black spin on the Green Lantern mythos. The Jack Black Green Lantern Movie You’ll Never See ![]()
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