Tim Robbins Joins The Green Lantern Cast
Tim Robbins has joined the cast of The Green Lantern for Warner Bros., based on the popular DC Comics superhero, according to THR’s Heat Vision. Robbins will play Senator Hammond, the disapproving father of the movie’s villain, Dr. Hector Hammond. Peter Sarsgaard is playing the villain, who unlike the comic book version, will be a pathologist that becomes infused with psychic powers after contact with a meteorite. Ryan Reynolds will star as Green Lantern/Hal Jordan, with Blake Lively as the hero’s love interest, Carol Ferris. Production is slated to begin in New Orleans this March.
Green Lantern was created in 1940 by writer Bill Finger and artist Martin Nodell. Hal Jordan introduced in 1959, a second-generation test pilot, is an ordinary man who was given the power ring and battery (lantern) by a dying alien named Abin Sur. When Abin Sur’s spaceship crashed on Earth, the alien used his ring to seek out an individual to take his place as Green Lantern: someone who was “utterly honest and born without fear.”
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