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Ryan Kyle Coogler (born May 23, 1986) is an American filmmaker. He has received an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, four Black Reel Awards, a Grammy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and ten NAACP Image Awards. Coogler directed a few short films at the USC School of Cinematic Arts before his feature-length debut with Fruitvale Station (2013). He then transitioned to directing and writing franchise films, including the Rocky series spinoff, Creed (2015), as well as the Marvel films Black Panther (2018) and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022). Coogler also produced the historical drama Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) and the supernatural horror film Sinners (2025), which he also wrote and directed. He received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture for both films, while for Sinners, he was also nominated for Best Director and won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. In 2013, he was included on Time's list of the 30 people under 30 who are changing the world. In 2018, Coogler was named the runner-up of Time's Person of the Year, and he was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. In 2021, Coogler, his wife, Zinzi Coogler, and Sev Ohanian founded multimedia production company Proximity Media. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ryan Coogler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Set one year after the death of Hal Jordan, the film opens with the Guardians of the Universe struggling to maintain authority over Oa while facing mounting interplanetary pressure from worlds like Earth and other sectors that believe Oa is weakened without its greatest champion; though the Guardians project calm omniscience, their rule is strained as political factions question whether the Green Lantern Corps can still protect the universe without Hal’s legacy guiding them. Meanwhile, brilliant MIT prodigy Natasha Irons—reimagined as the niece of John Henry Irons—accidentally creates a deep-space energy-mapping device that detects emotional-spectrum concentrations, unknowingly alerting Larfleeze, the sole wielder of the Orange Light of Avarice and self-proclaimed ruler of Okaara; paranoid that Oa or Earth might uncover the secrets of his hoarded power, Larfleeze demands Natasha be handed over, confronting Jessica Cruz and the Guardians in a tense standoff where he proposes a ruthless alliance against the rest of the universe—an offer the Guardians refuse, knowing Larfleeze’s creed is simple: he wants everything, and he will never share the Orange Lantern power with another living soul. Determined to protect Natasha, Jessica leads a Green Lantern extraction mission to the United States, but the team is ambushed mid-evacuation by Larfleeze’s orange constructs in a spectacular bridge battle that ends with Jessica and Natasha captured and taken to Okaara; there, Jessica witnesses the eerie majesty of the Orange domain and learns the terrifying truth of the Orange Corps—every construct soldier is a stolen identity, a being consumed and replicated by Larfleeze’s insatiable greed, leaving him eternally alone yet infinitely surrounded by what he has taken. Back on Oa, the Guardians blame Kilowog for failing to protect Jessica and strip him of command authority, fracturing Corps morale, while Carol Ferris returns wielding the power of the Star Sapphire Corps; infiltrating Okaara with the violet light of love, Carol frees Jessica and Natasha, but the act provokes Larfleeze into launching a devastating assault on Oa, engulfing the planet in orange flame and construct armies, during which several Guardians sacrifice themselves to preserve the Central Power Battery, leaving Jessica shattered by loss and consumed by anger. In her grief, Jessica attempts to reconnect with the emotional spectrum through the remnants of Hal’s ring, entering a metaphysical plane where she encounters Sinestro, who tempts her to abandon willpower for fear and rule through domination rather than hope; rejecting his philosophy, Jessica reforges her resolve and emerges with an evolved Green Lantern suit—sleeker, brighter, symbolizing not inherited legacy but self-defined courage—and declares war on Larfleeze. The climactic battle erupts in orbit and across Oa’s surface as the Green Lantern Corps fight alongside John Stewart wielder of the Ultraviolet Spectrum, while Natasha dons her first armored “Starlight” suit powered by will-infused tech; amid explosive close-quarters combat against legions of orange constructs, Jessica lures Larfleeze into an arid wasteland formed from a shattered moon fragment, weakening him away from his hoarded energy reserves, and in their brutal duel she ultimately gains the upper hand but recalls Hal’s belief that willpower must inspire rather than dominate, choosing mercy over vengeance and offering Larfleeze coexistence instead of annihilation. Humbled but pragmatic, Larfleeze yields and forges a tense alliance with Oa against external threats seeking to exploit the emotional spectrum, stabilizing cosmic politics as John Stewart resumes a leadership role within the Corps; in the aftermath, Jessica retreats to Haiti to mourn Hal in solitude, finally burning her black funeral garments in a quiet act of release, and in a mid-credits scene Carol introduces Jessica to her young son, Hal Jr., the hidden child of Hal Jordan, revealing that the Emerald legacy will endure in ways no Guardian could ever predict.
