Now, I have not seen Alpha Dog and though I've heard Timberlake turns in a good performance, and I actually find him funny on SNL, let's be for damn real for just a minute, can we?
I mean, just... No. Just no.
Anyway, Ryan Reynolds is already attached to Deadpool. Even though that certainly doesn't put him out of the running for Hal Jordan, I don't see them casting the same actor in two potentially long-lived franchises being released concurrently. Neither company would go for it, because it could cause serious scheduling conflicts, not to mention the whole actor-recognized-as-a-character thing. This Bradley Cooper guy I've only just barely ever heard of and he doesn't have the superhero look, but he was in a big hit movie recently, so that's all that really matters. Ah, Hollow-wood...
Nathan Fillion apparently isn't going to get the part, even though he isn't a bad choice. Of course, none of this is 100%; we were already told that Ryan Gosling had the part, remember? And what happened to Angel? David Boreanaz looks like frigging Hal Jordan - I mean, he looks like the guy who posed for the foundation sketches!
With a reputed $200 million budget and a space-based script, Green Lantern sounds like it's going in every wrong direction available. It's a real shame too, because Green Lantern is one of those superheroes who's really more of a sci-fi sort of thing. Sure, he wears the tights and pals-around with the JLA, but that was more because his story was told in the sequential art medium at a time when superheroes ruled the roost. If they're going to kind of overlook the superhero thing by keeping the whole movie in space (or most of it, anyway), then I guess any actor who connects with the character will work.
Of course the actor is all-important in a character-based film, but in this particular case, they could go a lot of different ways; that importance could be almost completely tempered by the script - and, subsequently, the director, et.al. There's a whole lot of story there, and that's one thing they have yet to truly focus on in any superhero flick of late. It's kind of hard to find one ever, when you think about it:
Superman had to work the story because Supes is the most one-dimensional dude in the multiverse, ad infinitum (though a "Dark" Wolverine means there's at least one more in the running, now...); and Batman (Burton) went straight for the total immersion/melange angle - and did it perfectly, I'll mention. Batman may be the way Green Lantern goes - with an eye toward every detail and the focus on no single element.
And if these three are all we got, let's hope it does.
© C Harris Lynn, 2009
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