Green Lantern Screenwriter Responds to Deadpool 2's Jokes

Deadpool 2contains a telephone number of amusing prank at the disbursement of DC ’s failedGreen Lanternmovie ; and it seems that film ’s writer , Marc Guggenheim , rather appreciate the humor . Taking to social media , Guggenheim has point his amusement at the gags .

2011’sGreen Lanternwas an ambitious moving-picture show , and was DC ’s first attempt to lie the creation for a apportion cinematic existence . Unfortunately , the film was also acritical and box authority fizzle , grossing under $ 220 million worldwide against a budget of $ 200 million . The CGI was universally panned , particularly the green costume Ryan Reynolds wore as the nominal hero . The full DC shared universe was shelved for two year , at last set in motion with 2013’sMan of Steelinstead .

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Ryan Reynolds has more than redeem himself for the misfortunate performance ofGreen Lantern , of course , winning popular eclat as the Merc With A Mouth . Deadpool 2acknowledges his turbulent past with the superhero writing style , containing gags ground on bothGreen LanternandX - Men Origins : Wolverine . And it seemsGreen Lantern ’s Centennial State - writer and cobalt - manufacturer , Marc Guggenheim , rather appreciate the humor . Guggenheim took toTwitterto express his response :

The post - credits scene ofDeadpool 2 , praise by Marvel ’s Joe Quesada as " the best after - credits scene in motion picture history , " contains the perfectGreen Lanternjoke . It sees Deadpool utilise Cable ’s metre - travel applied science to readjust story , saving the woman he eff ( and one phallus of X - Force ) , before heading into the kind of quaternary - wall - breaking escapades we ’d expect from the Merc With A Mouth . In one hilarious setting , Deadpool actually assassinates Ryan Reynolds just as he ’s reading the script forGreen Lantern . " You ’ll thank me , Canada , " Wade declares .

Warner Bros.seems able to take a gag at its own expense too . The studio ’s prescribed social medium write up responded toDeadpool 2’sgag with a pun of their own , distinguish Reynolds they need to take the ring back . Reynolds , naturally , upstaged themby running with the jocularity and suggesting they should have used a " NuvaRing " in the first piazza . It ’s barely a surprisal to see that Guggenheim can take a joke as well ; he ’s famous for his signified of mood , which inform all the show and comics he go on .

Of course , Reynolds is n’t the only one to have redeemed himself in the superhero literary genre sinceGreen Lantern . work with Greg Berlanti , Guggenheim launched DCTV ’s tremendously successful Arrowverse . fittingly enough , one of the Arrowverse ’s spinoffs isLegends of Tomorrow , which have-to doe with itself chiefly with the thought of changing the timestream . That adds yet another unknown bed of bodily fluid to the post - credits scene .