Ryan Reynolds is The Green Lantern
Source: Variety
Earlier today, our own Kevin Coll reported that the role of Hal Jordan in the upcoming Green Lantern film had been narrowed to three candidates. Variety is now reporting that Ryan Reynolds has landed the starring role in Warner Brothers’ live-action film based on the DC Comics hero.
Martin Campbell (Casino Royale) will be directing based on a screenplay written by Greg Berlanti (Everwood, Eli Stone), Marc Guggenheim (Law & Order, Eli Stone), Michael Green (Smallville, Heroes). Production is set to get under way in January.
For you non superhero fans, Green Lantern is the name of several fictional characters in DC Comics’ universe. The first (Alan Scott) was created by writer Bill Finger and artist Martin Nodell in 1940. The second was Harold “Hal” Jordan, a second-generation test pilot given a power ring by a dying alien, who then became a member of the Green Lantern Corps, an interstellar organization of police overseen by the Guardians of the Universe. Each member of the Corps is outfitted with a power ring with limitless ability, only limited by the wearers willpower.
The Silver Age Green Lantern was unique in several ways. He was the first DC superhero with a family, a founding member of the Justice League of America and starred in his own title as well.
This has been a great summer for Reynolds, he had a memorable role as Deadpool in “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” which by led to the announcment of a spinoff movie for the “Merc with a mouth.” Lastly his romantic comedy with Sandra Bullock “The Proposal” just surpassed the $100 million mark this week.
Reynolds can next be seen in “Buried,” a dark indie drama that will begin filming shortly in Barcelona with Spanish director Rodrigo Cortes. Reynolds will play a civilian contractor who is kidnapped in Iraq and awakes in a coffin, struggling against time to coordinate a rescue even though he doesn’t know where he’s buried in the desert.
I’m a huge Ryan Reynolds fan and I’ve been hoping they casted him as Wally West (The Flash) because I thought he’d be perfect for that role. But I have no problems with him playing Hal Jordan, the only concern I have is his ability to play completely different characters. Wade Wilson (Deadpool) is a complete 180 from Hal Jordan, so it will be interesting to see if he plays the characters differently.
What do YOU think?
