Officially Cool: Wicked Fan-Made ‘Green Lantern’ Trailer

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on May 26, 2009

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There has been all kinds of talk about Green Lantern lately as the film production itself rolls out of the station and toward reality. And with it, just as with any major comic book franchise, comes quite a bit of fan expectation — expectations that sometime manifest in odd and exciting ways.

In this instance we have this very cool fan-made trailer for a Green Lantern movie that was posted up to YouTube by a user named JaronPitts. According to the description, this is his vision of a live-action Green Lantern with fanboy hero Nathan Fillion in the lead role. And the trailer works, mostly because it is so outside the box for a fan trailer — very rarely does someone go so far as to cut in an actor’s face, etc. To be completely honest, even though it isn’t perfect, I am very impressed. Even more impressive is the choice of music — which you may remember from the final Star Trek trailer — and the sheer amount of movies from which clips were taken. See if you can pick them out in the trailer below, then compare them to the list that the author published (found below).

Here’s the list of films from which Jaron Pitts took footage:

  • Planet of the Apes
  • Serenity Trailer
  • Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer
  • Stardust Trailer
  • The Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Firefly
  • Dragonball Evolution Trailer
  • Galaxy Quest
  • The Fountain Trailer
  • Superman Returns Trailer
  • The Day the Earth Stood Still
  • Smallville
  • Justice League TAS
  • GI Joe Trailer
  • Contact
  • Star Trek Enterprise
  • Star Wars Episode III
  • The Mutant Chronicles Trailer
  • Iron Man
  • Star Trek Trailer
  • Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe Cutscene
  • The Chronicles of Riddick
  • Kamen Rider
  • Bedtime Stories
  • MIB 2
  • Escape from Witch Mountain Trailer
  • The Matrix Revolutions
  • The Chronicles of Narnia – Prince Caspian
  • White Noise 2

I’m impressed.

What do you think?


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  • bengibbard13
    that was very impressive

    now lets watch the studios fuck it up big time
  • Kcat
    Nathan Fillion would be brilliant as The Green Lantern. (He'd make an amazing Captain America, too.) He is built to play Superheroes, yet his acting range is so great that he can just as easily play the Everyman. He is young, strong, and beautiful. He is in the perfect age range to play a Superhero with depth, power, and gravitas. He is a man's man and a genuine artist in his craft. All this, and he is a wonderfully awesome human being. Nathan Fillion is simply the best, better than all the rest, and he has my total support. Kcat
  • James A. Merritt
    Frankly, as much as I have enjoyed Fillion in several productions (especially Firefly and Serenity), I had never thought of him as Green Lantern/Hal Jordan. But this trailer made me a believer. Also a believer in the filmmaker, JaronPitts. What an outstanding -- astounding! -- customized mash-up this is! And what a calling card for its producer! Good luck to JP in all future endeavors, including his attempts to influence the real producers of the forthcoming GL film, and good luck to Nathan Fillion as a candidate for the role of Hal Jordan. I read scores of Silver Age GL comics in my teens, and I am convinced that NF is the guy to bring Hal Jordan alive onscreen for this generation.
  • Jay DV
    Star Trek trailer song is titled - Freedom Fighters by Two Steps From Hell. Should be used for every trailer. Very epic.
  • D Train
    That's the best fan trailer I've seen yet.
  • It hink the homemade trailer have some Big Budget SFX but I don't think they would have the same concept as the real one later. I thought I heard Bradley Cooper will be Green Lantern. I wouldn't mind to see Nathan to 'Fill-on" the Character's 'Lantern' ring.
  • nicky_cavella
    this the same dude that made that cool THUNDERCATS trailer and had BRAD PITT as LIONO?
  • andries price
    im glad nathan fillion as green lantern this is cool i will see green lantern in theatres 2010 nathan fillion is green lantern on green lantern justice league mortal and tekken 5 vs. dc universe. im glad nathan fillion so green lantern starring nathan fillion in theatres june 2011 see ya.
  • nathan fillion
    im argee with andries price hey andries you playing robin the boy wonder on justice league mortal im glad to team up with you breadan routh christain bale megan gale jennifer connelly and adam brody so im glad as green lantern. so green lantern in theatres june 2010 see you andries we are friends green lantern in theatres june 2010 see ya.
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