The one line that sums up Guy Gardner for me though, is when he interrupted a speach by Captain Marvel at JLA headquarters saying “Shut the hell up and eat your jellybeans.”

Guy Gardener has to be fit and full of himself because of it. I don’t see Paul Giamatti in that role.

I think Paul Giamatti should play Guy Gardner. And Sylvester Stallone should be Blue Beetle.

That’s part of the reason why I commented in a previous post that I think WB should be making a JLI movie instead of JLA. Guy Gardener, Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, Batman, and Martian Manhunter? That’s the perfect cast of characters for a great action/comedy. Who could do Guy justice on the big screen, though? And who could pull off that bowl cut of his?

In the end though, I’d just rather not see this movie get made. As I’ve said before, make a Wonder Woman movie, make Flash, Martian Man Hunter, Green Lantern, and Aquaman movies, keep making Batman and Superman movies, but don’t try to put them together in one film. It just feels like a doomed project. Can they do any of these characters justice (no pun intended) in two hours with all of them onscreen, plus origin stories, ancillary characters, and villains? Even with a three hour film I find it hard to believe that this could work, and a lot of people would surely be put off by a film of that length as it is.

The only reasonable argument that I’ve heard for this movie being made is that X-Men dealt with a team but still turned out okay, but I think the key word there is “okay”. Since those characters are mutants they didn’t even have to bother with telling any real origin stories, but half of the characters in that first X-Men film were shit and had little to no character development anyway. Just imagine that film on a grander scale with some seriously cheesy un-matching bright colored costumes. I just can’t wrap my head around it. Mind you, I’d love to be proven wrong, but I’ll be a non-believer until the day that this comes out (if it comes out at all, that is).