Justice League Snyder Cut's CGI Fixed A Major Green Lantern Problem
Zack Snyder's Justice League fixed one of the major issues that hampered the 2011 Green Lantern film. The Justice League Snyder Cut was finally released in 2021 after an extended push by fans in the aftermath of the 2017 theatrical version's failure. Though Snyder originally intended to include Green Lantern (Wayne T. Carr) in the film's final scene, Warner Bros. requested for John Stewart to be removed from the film, with Snyder replacing him with Martian Manhunter (Harry Lennix).
Despite this, the Green Lantern Corps still had a presence in the film's history lesson with the brief cameo by Yalan Gur before he is killed by Darkseid (Ray Porter). The one-year anniversary of the Snyder Cut's release also saw Carr drop a completely rendered image of his deleted John Stewart appearance on social media, along with the #RestoreTheSnyderVerse hashtag. The design of both Yalan Gur and John Stewart's suits also greatly improved upon the criticized Green Lantern suit donned by Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan in the failed Green Lantern film.
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Reynolds wore a motion capture suit as Hal Jordan, with his Green Lantern suit in the film, and that of other Lanterns like Sinestro (Mark Strong) created entirely through CGI. Unfortunately, the effect was heavily criticized for looking cartoonish and unconvincing. Reynolds himself even took a shot at it years later in 2016's Deadpool with his "Please don't make the super-suit green or animated!" line. Conversely, despite employing a similar CGI methodology for Zack Snyder's Justice League, both Yanan Gur and John Stewart's suits are wholly convincing.
Yalan Gur himself is an entirely CGI-rendered character, yet his appearance in
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