Ryan Reynolds Lands Green Lantern!

[dirtymonkey22]

Warner Bros. Pictures has hired X-Men Origins: Wolverine and The Proposal star Ryan Reynolds to play the title role in the anticipated Green Lantern, scheduled for a June 17, 2011 release.

Based on the DC Comics hero, the action-adventure will be directed by Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, GoldenEye) and produced by Donald De Line and Greg Berlanti. Berlanti wrote the script with Marc Guggenheim and Michael Green.

The Hollywood trades say that Reynolds and his camp entered negotiations for the part Friday, after the studio held two rounds of screen tests, along with actors Bradley Cooper and Jared Leto. Justin Timberlake also did a screen test. The studio had holding options on the actors, but, except for Reynolds, those expired Monday. Reynolds' option would have expired end of day Friday.

Production is expected to begin in January.

The "Green Lantern" was created in 1940 by writer Bill Finger and artist Martin Nodell. Introduced in 1959, Hal Jordan is a second-generation test pilot, 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."

Reynolds recently starred in Fox's "Wolverine," in which he played Wade Wilson/Deadpool. The character is now being developed for a spin-off to which Reynolds is attached. He also played Hannibal King in Blade: Trinity.

The actor will next star 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.

ok i can see it

[juggalogigolo]

honestly............... wtf

[dirtymonkey22]

i guess justin timberlake was up for the part to so we got lucky

[juggalogigolo]

i wouldnt exactly call ryan renolds lucky....... this movie is destined for shit

[Shiro]

I see this only as something that will be taking up time he should be spending preparing for Deadpool.

[dirtymonkey22]

it fucks me up because he turned down playing the flash wich he would of been perfect for

[sTr]

ryan reynolds = perfect for nothing....

[juggalogigolo]

word

[Shiro]

I like him, and not just because I think he's hot.

[sTr]

especially because he's hot...

[Grimlin]

agagaga,Van Wilder!

[Star]

someone post a pic of ryan reynolds, i'm too lazy to look one up and i don't know if i know who that is.

[Shiro]

[sTr]

[Star]

eww i hate that guy, he looks so queer, but he's not, and it bugs me

i don't know much about comic books, but i can't see that guy playing any type of action hero guy without everybody laughing behind their hands the whole time

[juggalogigolo]

hes a fuck head, and green lantern will be shit

[sTr]

! Rather have the black green lantern then this cock swallower...

[Grimlin]

Haters.....

[juggalogigolo]

just bein realistic

[Grimlin]

Grimlin Wrote:Haters.....

[juggalogigolo]

bajaj

[dirtymonkey22]

he was in blade 3 and wolverine and in both movies he was about the only good thing in both movies so who knows hes been working on getting a deadpool movie off the grownd and he seens like he knows his comics so im up in the air check out the blade 3 youtube here its funny as fuck

[XIII]

dirtymonkey22 Wrote:it fucks me up because he turned down playing the flash wich he would of been perfect for

I've been saying this FOREVER! Do you have an article or something where it says they officially came to him and he turned it down? Or are you just assuming that since he accepted GL, he turned down all possibility for Flash?

In fact, can you just debrief and tell me everything you know about a Flash movie, that's my favorite hero.

[dirtymonkey22]

about a year ago they were trying to gey the flash off the grownd and named rynolds as who they wanted and he came out at the time and said in a interview he wanted to take a diffrent path with his career they wanted him to play wally west heres what i could find in some old news sectiond on it
im always on superherohype.com checking out this shit but the flash thing fell though a wile ago
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[Keezie]

i like ryan reynolds

and how can you say he's not lucky? he gets to bang Scarlet Johanssen every night

[dirtymonkey22]

shit hes one lucky fucker i like him myself but i will admit hes tend to travel the i could be a douchebag line

[sTr]

they should have went for burt reynolds, he would have been way more badass as the green lantern....