5 Villains Who Could Appear in the Green Lantern Corps Movie

After waiting since the day the film was announced for anything solid, fans finally got their first sense of Green Lantern Corps last week, with the announcement that David S. Goyer and Justin Rhodes would write the film.

It’s being described as “Lethal Weapon in space,” and will feature John Stewart AND Hal Jordan with kind of a buddy-cop feel.

No casting has been announced, and no timeline to begin production has even been teased. There are, of course, still rumors that Armie Hammer might be under consideration for Hal Jordan, but those are largely driven by who is following whom on Twitter, so it’s hard to know exactly how seriously to take them.

Another thing we don’t know, but that’s kind of fun to speculate on? Who the villain might be.

So…here are some possibilities.

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THE SINESTRO CORPS

We’ve touched on this before, but here’s the thing: if you’re starting with Green Lantern, then Sinestro is a great bad guy. If you’re starting with the Green Lantern Corps, then he’s just one guy with a nearly-identical power set to the literally thousands of good guys (and in this case, two leads). With those kind of odds, the longer he stays competitive the more you run the risk of making your heroes look a bit incompetent.

(This is similar to the criticism some people had about DC’s Legends of Tomorrow‘s first season, when the team kept losing to Vandal Savage.)

Giving Sinestro a team and setting him up as a guy who has history with the Corps and a point of view, makes him essentially Magneto from the first X-Men movie…but that’s fine. It’s an archetype that Sinesto fit during Geoff Johns’s bestselling run on the Green Lantern comics, and it worked.

ATROCITUS

After appearing in the Green Lantern animated series and Injustice: Gods Among Us, Atrocitus is likely one of the most familiar faces for a lot of casual Green Lantern fans.

He’s also got a cool design and, while he wields a power ring (making him roughly an equal threat for the GLs), it’s not quite as identical in function to theirs as would be the Sinestro Corps rings.

KRONA

We got the basics of Krona’s backstory in Green Lantern, but he wasn’t actually brought in as a threat — even though it would have made a lot more sense than Parallax or Hector Hammond, since he’s bound to the origins of the Green Lanterns in a very specific way.

After his arrogant mistake, which introduced entropy into the universe and created the need for the Green Lantern Corps, Krona has periodically reappeared as an ultra-powerful supervillain given his strength by the very force that’s driving the universe to destruction. 

STAR SAPPHIRE

While the Star Sapphire organization doesn’t have as many great stories as the Sinestro Corps or the Red Lanterns, certainly the main Star Sapphire — Carol Ferris — could be a compelling villain for this.

The idea that she’s Hal Jordan’s girlfriend (albeit not always in charge of her actions) and that in the comics she killed John Stewart’s wife means she has a long history with both characters that could be mined for story.

A WHOLE BUNCH OF STUFF

What if, in keeping with the Lethal Weapon theme, the movie found its humor in some of the situational stuff that happens when you’re a space cop?

We could totally see this movie having one big bad pulling the strings, but a lot of minor villains like Flicker and the Thunderers of Qward providing a lot of the action, humor, and cool visuals.