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.

Green Lantern was a pretty standard action movie, but lacked both the comedic chops and the emotional core that has made the

Marvel 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 office, they somehow prove they are just different shades of the same spandex.

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!

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.

Director Martin Campbell has never been one to shy away from the reality of Green Lantern ’s legacy. In a recent interview with ComicBook , Campbell opened up about his experience making the 2011 film,