Rumor: Tom Cruise refused to play in DC's "Green Lantern Corps" for this reason

According to foreign media reports, Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise recently rejected the invitation to play Hal Jordan in Warner DC superhero blockbuster "Green Lantern Corps" because the protagonist was killed in the script.

Note that this is just a rumor, but it is said that the crazy days & nights blog specializes in breaking Hollywood insider information, and its previous news was quite accurate. Another piece of evidence is that foreign media reported in March this year that Christopher McQuarrie, the director of Mission: Impossible 6, was in talks to direct Green Lantern Corps. He and Tom Cruise have collaborated on three movies in a row.

If the script is modified to Tom Cruise's satisfaction, for example, by not killing Hal Jordan, will things take a turn for the better? In the comics, Hal Jordan is an airplane test pilot. Coincidentally, Tom Cruise played a pilot in "Top Gun 2" released in 2019. If he can play Hal Jordan, the transition would be quite natural.

By the way, Ryan Reynolds played Hal Jordan in the 2011 version of Green Lantern. The film cost $200 million, but only earned $219 million at the global box office. It received a 5.6 on IMDb from 240,000 people, a 26% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 39 on MTC. It was a failure in both word-of-mouth and box office. That version of Green Lantern has been criticized for many years, and Reynolds himself was unwilling to let it go until this year's Deadpool 2, and criticized it again.

In the DC comic book system, Green Lantern has always been well-known and popular, ranking seventh in IGN's top 100 comic book heroes in 2011. Logically, he should be one of the six giants in the 2017 movie "Justice League" instead of Cyborg, but the 2011 "Green Lantern" was so unsuccessful that Green Lantern Alan Gore only showed up briefly in the flashback shot of Steppenwolf invading the earth.

In June this year, Geoff Johns announced that he would leave DC, but would not terminate his cooperation with Warner or even DC. He will still serve as the screenwriter and producer of the movie "Green Lantern Corps", which will focus on the two characters of Hal Jordan and John Stewart. The film has no definite release date yet, and the most likely release year is 2020.