Green Lantern
 

Casting has begun! We already know that Ryan Reynolds is Hal Jordan. Well now Carol Ferris has been cast. Blake Lively (Gossip Girl) will play Carol.

http://splashpage.mtv.com/2010/01/08...d-carol-ferris

Looking forward to seeing this. About time WB got a well known DC comics character besides Superman and Batman on the silver screen.

im actually excited about the possibility that this movie could be really fun.

And we got a villain! Buuut it's not Sinestro!

Peter Sarsgaard has been cast Hector Hammond....A man who gains psychic powers from a meteor. He also has daddy issues as his father (a senator) sees him as a disapointment.

Sinestro will reportadly be in the film, it's just that he's not the main villain.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/...76d58846b36b76

Looks like filming for the film starts in March in New Orleans. There's currently an open casting call for stunt people.

http://www.open-casting-calls.info/2...-call-for.html

Meanwhile take a look at the concept art for the movie:

Oh looky... Oans... er uh...:
http://cdn-www.mania.com/content_pic...0915_large.jpg

Sinestro!:
http://cdn-www.mania.com/content_pic...8c50_large.jpg

Kilowag (Yikes!):
http://cdn-www.mania.com/content_pic...ddbb_large.jpg

Abin Sur and Tomar Re:
http://cdn-www.mania.com/content_pic...bea1_large.jpg

Those were leaked to me over a year ago. They're real, but by now there's no way the current designs resemble those.

I like the depiction of the Guardians, Kilowog, and Abin Sur, though.

Some casting news... No Sinestro hasn't been cast yet. But they DID cast Tim Robbins as Hector Hammond's father, Senator Hammond.

http://www.superherohype.com/news/gr...ws.php?id=9074

Mark Strong is the frontrunner. He's Campbell's favorite and it's very likely Campbell will have his way.

This movie is gonna rock. Loooking at the CP, it looks like they are heading in the right direction.

Geoff Johns has tweeted that Mark Strong is indeed playing Sinestro!

http://www.mania.com/strong-confirme...le_120771.html

More casting!

Temuera Morrison (Jango Fett in the Star Wars films) has been cast as Abin Sur

New Zealand's Taika Waititi (Cuz apperantly Maori look enough like Eskimos?) has been cast as Pieface.

Taika Waititi:
http://reporter.blogs.com/.a/6a00d83...f9e87f2970c-pi

http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2010/0...exclusive.html

Aaand behind the scenes pics from the set in New Orleans are now popping up! Not really showing anything except Ryan Reynolds standing around. But he is wearing the ring in one of the pics...

http://thegreenlanterncorps.com/foru...&postcount=370

Thanks for the info so far. I'm looking forward to this movie. Well to be honest I'm looking forward to anything with Ryan Reynolds in it.

Whoa! Angela Bassett was just cast as Amanda Waller!

Currently the character is being played by Pam Grier in Smallville.

Ok now Im curious about the storyline for this movie if they're involving Checkmate!! :o

Im not sure if this is a good thing or not. Im having a hard time picturing Angela Bassett as an overweight woman.... :ohwell:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100325/film_nm/us_bassett

Gonna go out on a limb and say they probably wont make her overweight.

Double post, Don't care:

Apparently Green Lantern is being shot for 3D....Which makes sense, doubly so because it's Green lantern. 3D I care about.

I honestly can't remember Waller or Checkmate (or even the Suicide Squad) having any significant relationship to the GL mythos (aside from Alan Scott being White King at some point, but that has nothing to do with this). My guess is the producers did the same thing they did on Smallville until very recently: pulled a random DC character out of the blue to make comic fans somehow care more, even though they're usually portrayed nothing like the comic version. My guess is that this "Amanda Waller" character will be loosely at best related to the comic version. Which would kind of annoy me, because it might hurt the chances of /WallerCheckmate getting their proper due in a future film.

Either way, I don't care at all if Waller is in it. I know for a fact that Guy Gardner won't be, despite being the one, TRUE Green Lantern (chosen first by Abin Sur's ring before his spaceship crashed closer to Hal Jordan, deemed equally worthy), and that makes me sad. Even an "Emerald Dawn II"-type cameo where he's Hal's lawyer or whatever he was in that mini would be better than nothing.

Venting aside, I can't wait for this flick. I'm hoping for a big epic sci-fi trilogy. Now, any word on the eternally-delayed Flash flick? There's no reason with every other character getting a movie that they can't get this done already...

Having read the first draft I suspect they're substituting Alan Scott's little role with Waller. Probably Geoff's idea.

Tom Selleck? Ha!

Holy crap, The Wall is in this? Sweet.

Anybody know what's going on with SuperMax currently? I'm actually more psyched for that than this at the moment.

I haven't heard about that in forever. That was that "Green Arrow in jail with all the supervillains" flick, right? I swore I heard they gave up on that at least a year ago. Sounded interesting though.

That was back when they were still talking all big about doing Flash, Wonder Woman and JLA movies. It's cute whenever Warner Bros. acts like they actually know what the f*ck they're doing. Usually they don't, but at least they pretend.

The Closer's Jon Tenney has been cast as Martin Jordan, father of Hal Jordan. So yay... we get to see Martin Jordan die on the big screen...how fun.

http://www.superherohype.com/news/gr...ws.php?id=9267

Did you say "Ben Parker"?

:lol:

While Uncle Ben is killed by a criminal, Martin Jordan is a test pilot who dies in a plane crash when Hal's a kid. And yes that has always somewhat haunted Hal, especially since he watched happen.

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/i...miccon_308.jpg

I approve.

The body suit looks a bit too much like the Spawn costume.

Nice. Full suit is reportadly gonna be revealed at Comic Con.

Really weird looking. I don't like that theres no black on the costume.

More pics:

Hal Jordan and Carol Farris:
http://www.cinemablend.com/images/ne...1279228372.jpg

Senator Hammond, Hector Hammond, and Amanda Waller (too skinny):
http://www.cinemablend.com/images/ne...1279228360.jpg

Hal Jordan and the Power Ring:
http://www.cinemablend.com/images/ne...1279228348.jpg

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Three...ast-19602.html

Awesome! I love the way the suit looks.

I'll get used to it. Not as big a departure as it could've been. I bet it'll look even better in motion. Ring looks neat.

Announced at comic con (watching the Geoff Johns panel right now):
Geoff says Parallax is in the Green Lantern film.

o_O He's a separate character now?

Green Lantern trailer's up!! Killowog!!! Tomar-Re!!! Looks SW33T!

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=71620

Looks good to me;)

Ryan seems to be playing himself in the trailer but I have a feeling the lightheartedness will be few and far between. Or at least the majority of it will be at the beginning of the film before he gets the ring.

Blake though... She kind of stood out in a bad way. But I dont like to judge movies and performances based on a few minutes of footage, so we'll see :D

Looks cool, way more promising than the clip that surfaced over the weekend.

I haven't seen her in anything else, but she seems like a bad actress.

EDIT: She was the trashy ex-girlfriend in The Town, and she was good in that. But it was a minor role.

I think the movie has to be lighthearted to an extent. I mean, it's about a character that makes giant catcher's mits and t-rexs using a ring. You can't make it like The Dark Knight. It looks like fun. I'm excited.

And really? Everyone is complaining that Angela Bassett isn't fat? As if being fat defined Amanda Waller's character. Guess everyone would be happy if that girl from Precious played her.

The theatrical Green Lantern trailer is now up. This one showing an Oan!! Whoever he is (Ganthet?) he looks grey in colour and appears to have a dome thing over his brain.... And also.... Kilowag speaks!!

http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stori...eenlantern.htm

God this movie looks so sketchy. Im not sure if Green Lantern translates to live action very well. I dunno, maybe it's just me.

Michael Clark Duncan is Kilowag! I like it. Although it's odd having Deadpool and Kingpin in a Green Lantern movie.