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“Green Lantern” will be shooting primarily in the city of New Orleans, according to director Martin Campbell. Campbell spoke to The Geek Files, and confirmed what had been reported here as early as August, that New Orleans had the inside track as it looked less and less likely that the impudently rising Australian dollar would make it economically to shoot in Sydney.
Warner Brothers recently confirmed that production on "Green Lantern" would not take place in Australia for economic reasons.
Campbell also spoke about the daunting complexity of the DC comic book adaptation: "It's daunting. Just the process, something like 1,300 visual effects shots, it's mind-blowing, quite honestly."
Green Lantern’s power ring provides some new types of technical challenges: "It's energised by a battery on the planet of Oa, which taps into the willpower of everyone in the universe…From that ring you can form constructs. So if you got into a fight, you could form a giant fist. Or a fighter plane."
Presumably, these effects will make use of digital technology, which gets expensive. That appeared to be at least part of the problem with shooting in Australia, which began to look less economically attractive as shooting there might have added millions to a budget that was always going to have to be high to begin with. This is of course excellent news to New Orleans, still rebounding from Hurricane Katrina. And it provides director Campbell with a somewhat less familiar backdrop.
"It's a very interesting city...with a damn good tax rate,” he admitted.
“Green Lantern” is the highest profile DC adaptation on the radar right now, with a third “Batman” movie presumably on hold at least until after director Christopher Nolan finishes work on his current film “Inception,” “The Flash” being categorized only as “in development” and no plans at all to make a new “Superman” movie. (The less known property, “The Losers,” has been shooting in Puerto Rico and cult favorite “Lobo” is in early development.) Campbell hopes that Green Lantern, who is not as well-known to non-comic book readers as Batman and Superman, will stand out from the crowd:
"He's the only superhero to my knowledge who regularly goes to another planet. Superman and Batman were essentially locked into a particular city. The Lantern isn't so Earthbound."
Campbell's next movie, "Edge of Darkness," a remake of his own British miniseries, stars Mel Gibson and is scheduled to be released this summer. He is also the director of "Mask of Zorro" and the James Bond films "Goldeneye" and "Casino Royale." Shooting on "Green Lantern" is scheduled to start in New Orleans, Louisiana in April, 2010 in anticipation of a June 2011 release date.
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