Before James Gunn’s Superman, there was rumblings going around that Mission: Impossible director Chris McQuarrie wanted to make a sequel to Man of Steel with Henry Cavill.
The project never took off, but with some time away from it, McQuarrie has revealed that his original plan had Superman teaming up with a Green Lantern in the movie.
Talking to Happy Sad Confused, McQuarrie revealed, “I’ll never tell, but boy was it f*cking good. Green Lantern was what had come to me, and Green Lantern’s a tough one. The power is very challenging, and I cracked it, and it was fun, and watching him learn how to use that power, and giving that power a flaw so it was not pure invincibility…”
McQuarrie explained that he managed to find a flaw with GL by capitalizing on the need to charge the ring. He explains,“The whole concept of Green Lantern is the ring has to be recharged, and that’s not a bug, hat’s a feature… that for me solved the whole Green Lantern problem… the costume is another thing.”
McQuarrie doesn’t explain why exactly his pitch didn’t push through, but it was probably because there was a lot of studio drama, and it was said that the heads around that time had no intention of bringing back Henry Cavill’s Superman until the Rock forced their hand with Black Adam.
Personally, I was rooting for the DCEU to come back after The Flash, but things happened, and James Gunn and Peter Safran weren’t interested, so now we’re getting another DC reboot with Superman.
Hopefully there’s some kind of Elseworlds plot that can bring back Cavill, but for now, a new Superman flies into theaters on July 11. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is now out in theaters.
