Michael Madsen as Green Lantern, Harvey Keitel as Sinestro and Bare Feet

[Brian Damage]

GIVEN his very distinctive film-making style, what would a director such as Quentin Tarantino do with a superhero movie?

That may seem like a random thought with no basis in reality. But it transpires that Tarantino not only based his Inglourious Basterds on Marvel Comics' war series Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandos, but was asked to direct the big-screen adaptation of DC Comics' hero Green Lantern for Warner Bros.

Since then, Casino Royale's Martin Campbell ended up at the helm of Green Lantern, with Ryan Reynolds in the star role.

Tarantino explained to MTV: "I was offered the Green Lantern. Not since it's been a script, but just like, 'Hey we own the 'Green Lantern.' Would you like it?'"

He declined, although he insists he is a big comic book fan: "There's a little part of me that's like, 'Wow, if I was in my 20s, this would be the genre I'd want to specialise in.

"But they weren't making them then, or at least not the right ones. But there also is an aspect where I've kind of outgrown that a little bit."

He says he would still be interested in making a superhero movie, but it would need to be entirely new, like Will Smith's Hancock.

"It wouldn't be an existing comic book character," he added. "I'm a writer. I'd want to use my imagination and not have to fight with geeks' memories of how this character should be and, 'Oh, I cast an actor as opposed to a bodybuilder' or 'It's not as good as the way [DC Comics artist] Neal Adams drew him.'"

"If I were to do something like that, I would want the fun of coming up with the superhero myself."

A Tarantino take on the superhero movie genre could be an interesting project indeed, as long as it wasn't full of his usual references to other films. My curiosity has been piqued.

http://splashpage.mtv.com/2009/12/02...green-lantern/