Thus, instead of Guy Gardner being selected as the “alternate GL,” the power ring would actually pick Jud Plato, a slobby IKEA employee, after the guy demonstrated his mastery of fear by eating coyote brains on America’s true arena of bravery - FEAR FACTOR. Smigel’s vision for a comedic GREEN LANTERN movie was to riff on how the power ring didn’t have to be worn by only one specific hero it could be wielded by anybody with enough demonstrable bravery. He not only had an understanding of this particular area of pop culture, but also a willingness to “take the piss out of it” (as they’d say across the pond.) Smigel had an alter ego of his own. Not only had he created the innuendo-laden superhero parody THE AMBIGUOUSLY GAY DUO, he’d also famously “pooped on” STAR WARS fans waiting in line for the first showing of ATTACK OF THE CLONES for weeks ahead of time. Robert Smigel had a prolific career as a writer for SNL and LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O’BRIEN, and he’d done some material that specifically parlayed into this particular gig. Well, the guy who played Triumph, anyway. So who did they seek out to execute that reinterpretation? Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.= TEASER = Jack DID play a superhero at one point, at least. By ’04, the studio had reconceived the project and was looking to spin it as a light comedy akin to the loose movie adaptation of Dark Horse’s THE MASK that had been a smash hit ten years earlier. Ironically enough, Kevin Smith had previously been offered the opportunity to pen a GL script, but he reportedly turned it down because he figured his sensibilities didn’t quite align with the project. You maniacs were quite keen on finding out details about that SUPERMAN movie that almost starred Nicolas Cage so, now that the GREEN LANTERN movie’s home video release approaches, I figured it’d be fun to look at the time Jack Black almost played the “ringslinger.” So let’s wind the clocks back to that bygone year of 2004.
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