Dedicated Green Lantern Movie Thread
SpectreIsland
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Let's get the ball rolling on this much awaited film. Let's hope the powers that be at WB make the right choice in directing, casting, music, special effects house etc., WB don't let me down; I'll never hear the end of it from my brother TonyDP if you screw this up 
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A lot of fanboys seem to want Nathan Fillion to play Hal Jordan; personally, I don't see it as his face is a little too French-Canadian for me.
Willie Garvin has often suggested James Marsden would make a good Hal, and I tend to think that would be a better choice.
And seeing as our old pal Martin Campbell is currently attached to direct, I wonder if he'll try to get Daniel Craig to play Guy Gardner in a supporting role; I think that would be an inspired bit of casting.
Regardless, I have a feeling production will have to start ramping up pretty quickly on this one as the film will almost undoubtedly be a heavy FX/CGI affair and they'll probably need lots of time for post-production work.
Y'know when I think Guy Gardner in a live action GL film, I automatically think of James Caan's son. What's his name Scott?
He plays an insufferable jerk in just about anything he's in.
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Chris Meloni Goes Green
Included in the new animated DVD feature Wonder Woman-on sale March 3 and featuring Keri Russell and Nathan Fillion's voices-is a sneak preview of Green Lantern:First Flight,the next movie in Warner Bros.' well-received series based on DC Comics.Law & Order:Special Victims Unit's Christopher Meloni plays the title role,pilot Hal Jordan,who gets recruited into the Green Lantern Corps,an intergalactic police force.Joking that Jordan is "the intergalactic Elliot Stabler",a gung-ho Meloni says,"[Hal Jordan] is having a whole lot more fun than any character I've ever played,zipping around the galaxy and having all these powers."The movie comes out late this summer.
Nothing special here but at least we know who'll voice Hal and when to expect this.
Looks like things are going green for DC...literally. B-)
God, I hope that Robinov(?) doesn't go in a**hole mode again and pull the plug on this.
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Glad to hear that the more cosmic aspects of the GL mythos appear to have remain intact. Looking forward to checking out the preview on the Wonder Woman DVD.
And speaking of Green Lantern, here's a little article I came across on the direct to DVD movie, with more info on the voice talent and even a few pieces of art from the show.
Green Lantern DVD
This should be good.
And of course, it goes without saying that the story is what will really matter and early indications are that it has all the galaxy hopping, sci-fi influenced hallmarks of the best GL stories.
Not a nod to Iron Man, a nod to Nolan's Batman although the aesthetic is noticable. Why would a GL wear IM type of armor when he can clad himself in such with a simple thought and the ring anyway? This looks more lightweight Kevlar-ish; anything heavier would slow him down considerably.
Well just my two cents really...
Glad they ditched the Palmolive gloves though. That's a get-up you can be taken seriously in. B-)
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-mendelson/dvd-review-wonder-woman-2_b_169723.html
Latino Review is reporting that Ryan Gosling, who was supposedly up for the role of Hal Jordan, has decided to pass on the role. In addition, the part was allegedly offered to Emile Hirsch (of Speed Racer infamy) and Terminator: Salvation's Sam Worthington. Both actors also supposedly turned down the role.
Latino Review is saying that the studio is now considering Anton Yelchin for the lead. Frankly, I find this all hard to swallow as Yelchin is way too young for the part. Hal Jordan is a seasoned fighter pilot, while Yelchin is barely old enough to drive. While he could be up for some secondary role (maybe a young Kyle Rayner?) I find it hard to believe he's the studio's current pick to be Hal. And let's not forget, this is the site that once famously said Leonardo DiCarpio was going to be Aquaman in the JLA movie.
Anyhow, full article is here: GL Article at Latino Review
John Hamm from AMC's Mad Men
If that's not a comic book face, I don't know what is. Although he's relatively younger than you and I, Tony, age might play a significant factor for him still if WB is talking franchise. In any regard, this guy looks like Hal Jordan. B-)
Maybe a little grey on the sides for effect?
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John Hamm does look good in that pic though; I could easily see the domino mask on him and agewise, I think mid-to-late 30's is just about right for the character.
There are a lot of viable actors out there who can pull off the role; hopefully WB won't get too cute or hip with their casting decisions. I'm also certain that Martin Campbell, assuming he's still directing, will have a say in the final decision.
I've already suggested James Marsden but I'll add Josh Duhamel to the mix as well.He's tall and lean--yet muscular--like Gil Kane's drawings of Hal,and he's got the handsome face and the square jaw.He's a good actor and he's in his late 30s.He's probably affordable,too.Simply because he starred on the Las Vegas TV series shouldn't be an immediate reason for WB to dismiss him as a posibility.
I remember reading an article somewhere where Gil Kane said that he modeled Jordan's face on Paul Newman's.How true that is,I don't know,but Jordan's definitely supposed to look like a man of action who is also something of a leading man.Maybe WB should check out some talented unknowns who look right for the role.We all know how well this worked with Christopher Reeve.
I'm hoping that the GL screenplay hasn't somehow merged the Hal Jordan character with elements of the Kyle Rayner character-creating a much younger test pilot,as opposed to a former military man in his mid 30s.A GL that was a kind of Jordan/Rayner blend appeared on the animated Superman TV series(giving artist Rayner a good chunk of Jordan's origin),and although I thought it was great to see any version of Green Lantern, it also looked awkward,as well as wrong--but that's the geek in me talking.
Early word on the screenplay was that it was very faithful to the silver age comics and many of the events were taken from the Emerald Dawn book. In that one, Hal was very much the cocky but still seasoned fighter pilot. As such, I tend to dismiss all these casting rumors involving actors who are barely old enough to shave. Hal always skewed a little older than his fellow heroes and even if WB is thinking franchise or a JLA team-up down the road, it fits in with comics continuity to get a slightly older actor for the role.
Besides, Jon Favreau showed us that you can still have a superhero movie with an older lead and make money by the bucketload.
Hopefully Martin Campbell will do the GL movie.Failing that,Greg Berlanti(creator and producer of the quirky Eli StoneTV series)who was originally announced as the GL director, might be a good failback since he is a fan of GL and was apparently one of the people who pushed for a GL film to begin with.
Just thought of another possible Hal Jordan.What do you think of NCIS's "Tony DiNozzo", Michael Weatherly?He's very effective (I think) handling both serious stuff and humor alike.He could certainly suggest Jordan's initial cockiness without also being off-putting.Just turned 40 but has looked around 35 for the past four years.Square-jawed and handsome in the classic tradition(has a strong resemblance to the young George Peppard).It would be easy to make him look like Hal Jordan.
On an encouraging note, Anton Yelchin did pretty much shoot down rumors that he was in contention for the role over the weekend at Wondercon, as he himself stated that he was far too young for the part.
And with regard to the Animated direct to DVD Green Lantern movie, it will be called Green Lantern: First Flight and will be released in July. Here's a summary of the story and other info by way of trekmovie.com:
http://www.warnervideo.com/greenlanternmovie/
If it's any indication from looking at the style the storyboard art, it's going to look really GOOD B-)
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This is exactly what I expected.Maybe Chris Evans is available.He can do cocky with ease and was a fine Johnny Storm.It probably wouldn't take much to make him look like Hal Jordan.I think he's in his late 20s-very early 30s.
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Does no one entity own the rights to the characters, or do various artists/writers get the rights for the character?
If Green Lantern has been around for a long time, which I know he has because I remember GL comics from my youth, shouldn't the number be higher than the 20's?
Is there more than one Green Lantern, I know of Hal Jordan, but it appears from my brief research a whole corps exists?
I got more, but I will stop there.
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I haven't kept up with the GL comics but I suspect the reason the numbers are low is that the books were rebooted at some point and the numbers were reset to 1 (this is a common occurrence in comicdom whenever a book takes a new creative direction).
As to how many GL's there are...thousands! The original GL comic came out in the 1940s and our hero was one Alan Scott who found a magical green lantern and carved himself a ring from part of it. Alan's ring could create any object he could imagine and had only one weakness: it was ineffective against anything made of wood. Alan's stories were more fanciful in nature, involving magic more than science fiction; his book faded away in the 1950s.
When the comic was acquired and rebooted by DC Comics in the late 1950s, the Alan Scott storyline was dropped in favor of a completely new one: the Green Lantern Corps were a group of space cops, each protecting a sector of space. There were 3600 Lanterns and they were guided and mentored by the Guardians of the Universe, ancient and powerful beings who sought to bring order to the cosmos. The Green Lantern Corps are made up of a diverse group of aliens, each with distinctive physical and emotional characteristics.
Our friend Hal Jordan inherited the mantle of Green Lantern of Sector 2814, which is where Earth is located. Over the years, other characters have been introduced and at different times been Green Lantern of Earth. Three of the more notable ones include Guy Gardner, John Stewart and Kyle Rayner; but Hal has always been the most popular character and the one who always seems to return to the fore.
The Green Lanterns' power is in their rings, which, like Alan Scott's ring, respond to the wearer's thoughts and will. They can create almost anything the wearer can imagine - be it a weapon, a vehicle, a costume, or even the occasional virtual girlfriend - as long as the wearer has sufficient willpower. The modern GLs rings have a weakness to anything that is the color yellow (although that has been scaled back recently). The ring is recharged thru the use of a small power battery which looks a lot like, coincidentally, a green lantern.
Over the years Alan Scott has been retroactively worked into the GL mythos so that there is an explanation for why his ring came from a different source and had different properties.
The big villain of the Green Lantern books in Sinestro, a former Lantern himself (Sector 1417 if I recall correctly) who was stripped of his ring when it was discovered he was using it for his personal gain. He was banished to an antimatter universe where he discovered a yellow power ring. Given the GLs weakness to yellow, you can imagine that he was a major thorn on their side.
That is a whirlwind tour of the world of the Green Lantern, an expansive and rich tapestry full of great stories that literally span the universe. And that explains why you saw multiple books. I'm aware of the main GL title (which features Hal) as well as a GL Corps title (which features the GLs from other sectors); there may be more books as well, but they're all owned by DC comics and all inhabit the same universe.
If that's piqued your curiosity, try to google Green Lantern or check out the wikipedia page fore even more info.
Hope that helps.
I'm also a fan of Alan Scott, for nostalgic reasons...but any film simply must be about Hal Jordan B-) ...and it ought to be an origin story.
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Green Lantern to Start Filming in September
Source:Production Weekly March 18, 2009
Warner Bros. Pictures is scheduled to begin filming The Green Lantern in mid-September in Australia, reports Production Weekly.
To be directed by Martin Campbell, the comic book adaptation is targeted for a December 17, 2010 release.
The "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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The article further states that WB wants somebody aged 30 or younger, clearly hoping for a "franchise" actor in the vein of Brandon Routh (26 when he did Superman Returns) or Christian Bale. As such, names like Jon Hamm and Nathan Fillion (two fan favorites) seem to be out of the running for now at least.
Pine is still an unknown commodity with me. The few scenes I've seen of him from Trek haven't really sold me on his talent. In reading some of his interviews he also doesn't strike me as much of a sci-fi/comics fan. So I'm not sure he'd even be interested in the part.
Here's the whole article: Is Chris Pine Hal Jordan?
Here's the link: Green Lantern Trailer
Source:Mt Druitt Standard April 16, 2009
The Mt Druitt Standard reports that New South Wales premier Nathan Rees has confirmed that Warner Bros. Pictures will shoot Green Lantern at Fox Studios Australia in Sydney later this year (previous reports said in September). GoldenEye, The Legend of Zorro and Casino Royale helmer Martin Campbell will direct. Here's a clip:
Premier Nathan Rees said filming would take place at Fox Studios with a substantial investment in digital effects work creating hundreds of jobs.
"The production is expected to employ 500 people at any given time, including 100 performers, 200 crew and thousands of extras," he said.
Click here for more on this. Green Lantern is targeted for a December 17, 2010 release.
Does someone know if WB has zeroed in on a sure candidate for Hal Jordan yet? The suspense is killing me. ?:)
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WB have talked with some actors but I don't think any announcements are imminent. Several of the contenders (Chris Pine, Sam Worthington) are appearing in movies this summer and WB could well be waiting to see how they fare before making anyone an offer.
The Mt. Druitt Standard article says that filming is now scheduled to start in November, which seems to be cutting it close for a December 2010 release given that GL will probably be an effects heavy movie. If that start date is true, I wouldn't expect much in the way of news until late summer.
Here's a pic.
*Looks at Little Hal*
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Not quite; it's missing that disturbing smile of Little Hal's. {:)
Speaking of disturbing, what's up with the Marvel Sisters? Did they download the Wolverine movie? Or is it against their religion to watch a Marvel movie before it officially opens?