Collider spoke with DC’s Chief Creative Officer. You already knew this because you read our post on Geoff’s comments about possibly turning unproduced screenplays into DC Animated movies. Now comes the full interview, but to save you time here are the best and relevant bits below. Read as Geoff does his best to dodge questions and give as little information as possible on DC movies, the future for Green Lantern on the big screen, DC’s current slate of tv shows, ending his nine year GL run and more.

Johns on when he knew he was leaving Green Lantern:

JOHNS: Probably about six months ago.  I was working on a storyline where Hal Jordan was going to end up in the Dead Zone, which essentially he was going to end up in the afterlife, and I thought, you know, his big triumphant return from that, like him coming out of that and all these things I wanted to play out with him and Sinestro, it felt like this second rebirth.  We’ve started by bringing him back, it just felt very poetic and it just felt right.  Something big was going to happen with Sinestro, his own world was destroyed, Hal was dead.  All these events kind of culminated in a moment that I thought, this is the exclamation point on my run.  From rebirth to rebirth.  That’s how I want to end it.  So I did.

Geoff hints at a big DC announcement at Comic-Con International this summer:

What do you think, or is there discussion with the popularity of Arrow in bringing other characters to the small screen?  How does it work with the fact that there’s a Justice League movie being developed?

 

JOHNS: One of the things that I thought really worked was that you have Smallville on television and Superman Returns come out in the theater, and it was fine. Nobody freaked out, nobody thought they were competing. These characters are strong enough to live in video games, animation, television, film, and so Arrow, you will see a lot of characters coming in there, you might some see more DC TV shows.  Obviously that’s what everybody wants.  It’s exciting, I wish we could talk more about plans, but let’s talk about it Comic-Con.

 

I was going to say, I know we’re in May, it’s like once you hit April-May, everyone just gets — no one wants to talk about it until July.  So you’re saying that in July I’m going to know more?

 

JOHNS: You’ll know a lot more about DC in July at Comic-Con.  Across the board.

Geoff teases a future DC Animation project unlike any other:

What about talking to other writers, bringing in new and unexpected voices?  To do an animated movie? Is that something–

 

JOHNS: Yes.

 

Damn it! I feel like two months too soon!

 

JOHNS: Sorry, man.  There is a really cool one in development right now, that’s not necessarily — it’s very different from anything they’ve done before.  I’m really excited about it.  I don’t know when they’ll be talking about that yet, I don’t know when it’ll be ready to talk about.

And the moment you’ve been waiting for…Johns says there are plans for Green Lantern! Literally.

Plans for Green Lantern after the movie.

 

JOHNS: There are plans.  There are plans.

And so you don’t have read a bunch of quotes here is quick rundown of everything else from the interview. Johns likes digital comics but has no preference for any format as a reader. He just wants you to support comics and that’s the best answer anyone could give. Geoff says chances are “Very, very good” for a Wonder Woman movie and that it is “absolutely” a priority. Former Vibe writer and currently producing CW’s “ARROW” Andrew Kriesberg is working on the long developing “BOOSTER GOLD” tv show. Johns says he can’t talk about the Showtime network adaptation of the Vertigo book 100 Bullets. The Robot Chicken DC Special sequel gets started in just two weeks with Johns back on the writing team.