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Ryan Reynolds On Why Playing Green Lantern Is Great Fun!

"To go on a great wide open set like Green Lantern, run around for six or seven months playing a superhero was pretty great," he told The Press Association while being interviewed about his new movie, Buried. (the story of a US contractor in Iraq who wakes up to find himself buried six feet under, with a cell phone, a lighter and nothing else.)

"It's a real classic kind of guy," Reynolds went on to say when quizzed about portraying a character like Hal Jordan in contrast to a darker character like Batman. "It's the guy who can throw a punch, kiss the girl and tell a joke. That's something I'd love to see on screen again, and I hoped it's embraced for that kind of spirit."


The actor finished by saying that, "You can't be intermittently clenching your jaw muscles in place of emotion. You've got to be having a little fun with it, too.

Courtesy of http://comicbookmovie.com

[SD80MAC Not a True Fan Find all posts View Profile Close SD80MAC]

Then again this is a new timeline, so hopefully this means we won´t suffer through the whole "Hal goes nuts and destroys the Corps"

Like DC/HEAT would ever permit such a thing to happen again...

...they'll have Kyle do it, instead.

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Green Lantern: "Audiences Will Like Sinestro"
Exclusive: Ryan Reynolds talks villainy and explains who would win in a Lantern/Deadpool fight,
UK, September 24, 2010
by Chris Tilly

Ryan Reynolds has been discussing his role in the forthcoming Green Lantern today, telling IGN about the appeal of villain Sinestro, and entering into the Lantern vs. Deadpool debate.

Reynolds is at Fantastic Fest to promote the brilliant Buried, but we managed to grab a word with him about one of 2011's most eagerly anticipated flicks, asking him what will set the Green Lantern apart from the many superhero flicks hitting screens at the moment.

"He's a character whose superpowers, will and imagination is almost limitless" he explained. "With most superheroes there is a limit to what they can do, but with the Green Lantern there really isn't, and I think above all the scope is what's going to separate it from the herd, if-you-will. It's so huge. I play the Green Lantern, but I might be the tiniest cog in that machine.

"The movie really started when we wrapped principal photography - that's when everyone really went to work. The few things I've seen - the suit in motion and those kinds of things - has been breathtaking. It's amazing what they're able to do."

But what of director Martin Campbell? "He's an incredible guy - he's kind of like a five-star general out there. He's marshalling huge forces together to create a movie-going experience unlike anything else. He's an interesting guy - he's got the spirit and the physicality of a 21-year-old, except he's in his 60s. He's a cowboy out there - he's kind of like a Sam Peckinpah; a little unpredictable, a little wild, and that's why he gets such brutal action, Casino Royale being a great example. "

And as for Mark Strong as Sinestro, Reynolds believes that audiences are in for a surprise when they see the film's bad guy. "Mark's going to bring something unique in that Sinestro is not just a villain. Sinestro's someone that audiences are going to gravitate towards. Sinestro is someone that audiences - dare I say - are going to like. But there's something very volatile and mercurial about him, and I think they're going to see that as well. Mark Strong's going to bring a depth to that character that I certainly have been impressed to see."

Finally, we pushed Reynolds on who would win a fight between his characters Green Lantern and Deadpool, and rather than stone-wall us like he did last time we asked the question, he actually gave us an answer this time around. "I'm going to go on record right now. In a battle of the wits, Green Lantern is a dead man. But in a battle of the body, I'm afraid Deadpool is going to expire."

Buried is rolling out in cinemas across the globe over the next two week, while Green Lantern will hit next summer.

http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/112/1123246p1.html

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Like DC/HEAT would ever permit such a thing to happen again...

...they'll have Kyle do it, instead.

That doesn't make any sense. Why not have Sinestro do it as he's already a villain in this supposed trilogy? If that's even where the story goes?

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http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/112/1123246p1.html

Good find!

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Thanks! Looking really forward to see Sinestro...

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'GREEN LANTERN' Writer/Producer talks GL2 and Flash

There's been a lot of anticipation and chatter about DC Entertainment's ongoing plans to bring the DC Universe characters to the big screen, which begins in earnest on June 17, 2011 with Martin Campbell's Green Lantern ("GL" to the cool kids) starring Ryan Reynolds. One guy who certainly will play a key part in that plan is GL producer and co-writer Greg Berlanti, who came to New York to talk about his upcoming comedy Life As We Know It.

ComingSoon.net/SuperHeroHype had a chance to sit down with him and ask him a couple questions about his involvement in those plans, and he gave us a quick update on what he's focusing on at the moment:

"We are working on the treatment for the second film actually, we just started working on that with the same guys who I did the original with. (Michael Green and Marc Guggenheim) Those two guys are also writing a script based on a treatment we wrote for 'The Flash,' so that's my involvement with DC right now is the script for 'The Flash' and the treatment for 'GL2'."

A couple things we were interested in learning more about was the tone of the movies, as well as how they'll bring the mythology from the comics into the movie universe. Berlanti had some really interesting ideas about Barry Allen's character, involving his job as a crime scene investigator, which certainly will give the movie a different spin than some may be expecting:

"'GL' is always a bit lighter than that on earth but mixed with a twinge of the space opera, which has its own epic qualities to it. 'Flash' as we're getting into it is interesting, too. Though Barry Allen was a little lighter in the comic, I think because of the nature that he was a CSI and moved in this world of crime before this stuff happened. I think it's tonally somewhere in between 'GL' and 'Dark Knight.' It's actually a little bit darker than when we were working on ('GL), because you're dealing with somebody who is already a crimefighter in a world of those kinds of criminals and that kind of murder and homicide. I find you talk a lot about different films when you're working on a film, and we spend a lot more time talking about 'Se7en' or 'The Silence of the Lambs' as we construct that part of Barry's world, then I thought when we got into it. It helps balance a guy in a red suit who runs really fast."

Being that a lot of Green Lantern's mythology is going to be introduced in that movie, we were curious which aspects of the Flash comics might make it into the first movie, asking in particular about the Rogues' Gallery and the time travel aspect of the comics:

"A third thing I'd throw at you is alternate dimensions, so it's true that we want to find the things that make it… With 'GL,' we used to say there's a space opera component and then there's the down on earth. In 'The Flash,' there's the sci-fi component and there's the crime component and it's fitting those two things together, and the sci-fi thing, we obviously want to nail that and honor that and do that in a way that feels visceral and real and cool and probably more in the tone of 'The Matrix" films or things like that. I always think of 'The Flash' stories where he met Jay Garrick and knows there was Earth Prime and things like that. There's an avenue for these films to broaden the DC Film Universe in that way, so that's the hope."

The idea of the movies possibly introducing the other Flash and Green Lantern and thereby making some sort of Earth-2 Justice Society (JSA) possible certainly sounds very cool, although Berlanti remains non-committal about whether he might direct that "Flash" movie, preferring to focus on the script and figuring that important factor once it's done.

"When we have the script together, I'll probably sit down with Warner Bros. and want to decide what's best for that movie. It's so hard when you're working on the material, the script too, because if I thought about it just as a director I would freak myself out but when I think about it just as a writer, we try so many different things. It's like, 'I don't even know how we're going to do that but what if we did this or what if we showed this?' It's more freeing and liberating so I haven't really thought beyond the script right now for it.

via SHH!

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YAY!
THE FLASH movie script is becoming real!

Back to topic...
I'm not so excited about Star Sapphire being in the next movies, she is not one of my favourite characters, to put it gently.
But who knows, maybe she turns to be an interesting character, once on screen.

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All these interviewees are saying the right things to me. Just knowing that these folks understand and appreciate the Earth-2 mythos speaks volumes that WB gets it. I just hope GL makes A LOT of money. That is what it will all boil down to. More money = more movies.

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Just going by what I read in that interview I like where the Flash movie is going. Hope it turns out to be a really good movie like GL is going to be.

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That doesn't make any sense. Why not have Sinestro do it as he's already a villain in this supposed trilogy? If that's even where the story goes?

Because, despite what the HEAT idiots and the DC Silver age ressurectionists believe, a hero falling is what people like to see.


Hal went nuts, killed a LOT of people.


But you know what? He ultimately died a hero. It's the perfect way to put the character away for a few movies to let someone else shine until the Corps is rebuilt (Assuming of course the movie spawns an insane 9 film franchise).

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That would be awesome...

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Because, despite what the HEAT idiots and the DC Silver age ressurectionists believe, a hero falling is what people like to see.


Hal went nuts, killed a LOT of people.


But you know what? He ultimately died a hero. It's the perfect way to put the character away for a few movies to let someone else shine until the Corps is rebuilt (Assuming of course the movie spawns an insane 9 film franchise).

get over it kyle will never be the main GL in a movie.

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I could see a realistic 6 film franchise. I can see Hal becoming Parallax and sacrificing himself in the same movie if done right.

But that is if they go that route at all. I honestly feel that WB will be able to take this franchise their own way while staying as faithful as they can.

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I could see 3 with the ending being wide open.