Back in 1984, a little movie called The Last Starfighter plucked another human being from Earth and sent him on a grand adventure. And while it most certainly owed a lot to Star Wars, with Lance Guest's Alex Rogen standing in for Luke Skywalker, it also has a ton of parallels to the Green Lantern mythos:

- Both Rogen and Jordan were pilots, although Rogen was only trained on the video game combat simulator Starfighter, while Jordan was an actual test pilot, even if he did crash a lot.

- Both of them exhibited traits that caused representatives of their respective teams to recruit them -- it was Rogen's sheer skill at the game that caused the Rylan Star League to seek him out, and it was Jordan's will and morality that drew the ring of the dying Abin Sur to him, even if he wasn't exactly the ring's first choice.

- Both were transported to the distant planet where they would begin their new assignments as lone humans among a legion of alien comrades, each one more strange-looking than the last. (Hopefully, Green Lantern doesn't parallel Starfighter -- or numerous GL comic storylines -- and horribly murder all of those alien comrades.)

Obviously, it's a common theme -- humble human chosen for greatness, like in Flash Gordon, Tron and a dozen other 1980s genre movies -- but you have to admit it's uncanny, and it makes me want to see that rumored sequel come true. Or even the dreaded remake, even though the computer effects in the original were groundbreaking for their time. Hell, I'd even take the Bruckheimer version.

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