PRODUCER BRUCE TIMM TALKS "GREEN LANTERN: FIRST FLIGHT"

Green Lantern: First Flight producer Bruce Timm is giving a lot of credit for the look of the film to primary character designer Jose Lopez. “Jose has a completely different design sensibility than I’ve been used to working with,” Timm enthuses. “He’s a little bit anime flavored, but his style is not just specifically anime. We brought Jose in to do some designs on Green Lantern, and he ended up being pretty much our entire character design department. He ended up designing not just Green Lantern and most of the major characters, but zillions of background aliens and zillions of Green Lantern core characters. He brought a very unique design sensibility to the movie.”
   This movie, he emphasizes, unlike the previous entries in DC’s series of direct to DVD films, is much more of a science fiction film than people might expect. “We spend maybe 10 minutes on earth in the beginning of the movie and the rest of it takes place in outer space and in several different alien environments,” he says. “Jose designed hundreds of unique aliens and species for all of these different polyglot worlds. And they are all really cool – some of the designs are just really out there. There were times when I saw the designs and I said, ‘Wow, what am I even looking at? You’ve got to be kidding me.’ They’re eye-opening. Both Lauren [Montgomery, director] and I encouraged Jose to think way outside the box – and he did. He came up with some truly weird, bizarre life forms and it’s really interesting and really good.”

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[Andrew]

I can't wait to see how this turns out. The animated DCU films have each been really good so far.