Is Green Lantern wearing Superman's hand-me-downs?

Say one thing for Warners/DC: They are really good at keeping production material from failed/abandoned projects from winding up online. Makes sense, given that they were the first "big" outfit to publically blame a movie's failure on Internet leaks ("Batman & Robin" - the "novelty" of blaming web-gossip pretty much made AICN, publicity-wise.) I mean... people realize that George Miller actually cast, scripted, boarded and costumed the Justice League movie and we've never seen a shred of it, right?

Anyway... the most notorious of the failed Warners Bros. blockbusters is Tim Burton's "Superman Returns," who's allegedly-horrifying costumes have been the stuff of legend. In the film (infamously scripted by Kevin Smith) Superman would die and be ressurected by The Eradicator (look it up) who'd then "merge" with him; creating a "new-for-the-90s" dark/edgy look for the costume in the third act. Well, now thanks to an awesome collection of costume test images from FX maestro Steve Johnson's Facebook page, now we know what it would've looked like.

Uh... yikes! Funny thing, though...

You can't see it in that "natural light" snap, but it's actually pretty damn elaborate - especially for a practical effect: The muscle-suit is actually overlayed with clear plastic plates and levels of lights to make it look vaugely bioluminescent. One "portion" of this lighting looked awfully familiar to me...

Look familiar to anyone? Perhaps, very similar to another Warner Bros. DC character redesign...

Coincidence? ...yeah, probably - but it strikes me kinda "funny" that "glowy sinews" is a kind of running-theme in WB superhero reboots.

Check Johnsons' page for the full set.