Are you sick of hearing about Green Lantern yet? I hope not, because you can surely expect the steady stream of news coming out of Warner Bros to continue. They’ve done a great job the past few months keeping their upcoming adaptation fresh in the minds of comic and film fans alike. It seems like once a week we’ve been getting casting updates, story details have begun to slowly trickle down, and now, in a bit of behind the scenes news, Variety is reporting that Imageworks will be working their digital mastery on the film’s visual effects.
If you were hoping this would give you an idea of what the film will look like, unfortunately you’ll be sorely disappointed, since the VFX supervisors assigned to Lantern all have produced such different work. On board are Karen Goulekas and Kent Houston,who put together The Day After Tomorrow and The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus respectively. Both are great looking films, but totally different art and visual effects styles.
Imageworks has also been the go-to effects studio for the Spider-Man, franchise adding yet another very different style into the mix. Based on this pairing, we can be guaranteed that Green Lantern will be a great film to look at, but it’s still up in the air if we’ll be seeing fully believable effects a la Day After Tomorrow (excluding those shitty wolves) or if the cartoony Spider-Man vibe will shine through.
