Jack Black makes me snarf liquids up my nose. Tenacious D is fucking brilliant. And I even loved, LOVED I SAY, Nacho Libre. All that being said, it lightens my heart and makes me smile to know that his version of Green Lantern will never see the greenest light. Check this shit:

In 2004, rumors began surfacing that Black (hot off films like “School of Rock”) was in talks to play a common man who found himself as the newest member of the Corps. Influenced heavily by the Jim Carrey hit “The Mask,” the script was to depict an overweight hero using the power ring in comedic ways.

“I was going to be making all kinds of stuff,” Black said of the ring, which gives its possessor the power to create anything that can be imagined, and in the comic books usually manifests itself as green cages, weapons, walls, boxing gloves, etc.

“I was going to be capturing bad guys with green, giant prophylactics,” Black remembered of one scene in the script. “Some funny stuff.”

If this were a movie about a new hero who defeated foes with giant sex toys, I dare say I would see such a film. On paper, it sounds kind of funny as long as you don’t associate Green Lantern with any of it. This is not a Green Lantern movie. You don’t even need plot details to know that. It’s some bizarre Jack Black fantasy that might actually be quite hysterical. I’m glad that the powers that be killed this shit before it went in to production.

[Via MTV Movie Blog]

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