Green Lantern’s Mark Strong Hasn’t Heard Anything About a Sequel

Mark Strong, who played Sinestro in Warner Bros.’s poorly-received Green Lantern feature film, told MTV that while he enjoyed playing Sinestro, there’s likely not much chance that the planned sequels will ever actually happen.”I really like Green Lantern,” Strong said in a recent interview with MTV Splash Page. “I don’t have a problem with it at all. But it just didn’t seem to do anything at the box office or it didn’t do what they were hoping it would do at the box office. I think that more than anything, economics, dictates whether or not they make another one. I think it’s a real shame. I loved making Green Lantern and I loved playing Sinestro and I was really excited about the direction that he was going to take in the second one.”Regarding that second film, Strong confirmed that they were planting the seeds for a trilogy in the post-credits sequence of the original film, but that even that move hadn’t gone over as easily as expected.”A lot of people seemed to be confused by him putting on the ring at the end of the movie,” the actor said. “They felt that it came out of nowhere. All it was, during the credits, there was a sequence which was a nod to where the trilogy was intending to head to. It wasn’t ever meant to be part of the story of the first film.”At the end of the day, then, “I would be surprised if they made a second one because I’ve heard nothing about it in quite a while now,” Strong said. “What that standalone moment was intended to relate to was where the movies were headed and that, for me, would have been very exciting because the putting on of the ring and the whole suit turning yellow would have been great fun.”Strong is, among fans of the source material, one of the few aspects of the film that escapes many reviews relatively unscathed, so it’s not impossible to imagine him being asked back even if most of the rest of the cast were scrapped or replaced–but that would require a movie actually happening.Back in November, a news and rumor site claimed that their Warner Bros. source had given them details of a planned, Sinestro-centric sequel, which screenwriter and producer Marc Guggenheim called “bulls–t.”