As the director of "Green Lantern," Martin Campbell was far from the first, and certainly not the last filmmaker to deliver a stinker of a DC superhero film. But 14 years after its release, Campbell is unafraid to be honest about its shortcomings - especially the ones he takes personal responsibility for.

Superhero movies area powerful force in the entertainment industry, but they haven't all been winners. One somewhat infamous entry within the genre was Martin Campbell's Green Lantern (which is streaming with a Max subscription ). The filmmaker recently shared one big way he could have improved the blockbuster, and he's not wrong (in my opinion).

Barbs about its failure and his regrets about it have shown up in multiple Deadpool movies (there’s actually a convoluted continuity reason there’s no Green Lantern joke in Deadpool & Wolverine ), and a bunch of press appearances. Pretty much any time Reynolds has an opportunity to joke about it, he will.

Talking about his new movie, Cleaner, filmmaker Martin Campbell shares some of his regrets about 2011's Green Lantern, including not enlisting Ryan Reynolds to work on the movie's screenplay. Check it out!

M arvel and DC have spent their entire existence trying to convince fans they are galaxies apart, despite orbiting the same comic cosmos. Yet, every time they clash at the box off