I just did a quick look back through the Action Pants archive and noticed that I haven’t made a single article about the upcoming live-action movie based on the comic book character GREEN LANTERN. As a pretty big fan of the character, this made me sick. But I have taken a few of those chalk-like things to stop gagging long enough to return to my keyboard and correct this oversight.
GREEN LANTERN is about a test-pilot named Hal Jordan who finds a crashed spaceship with a dying alien inside it and because he doesn’t scare easily, he takes over for the alien as a Green Lantern; who are members of an intergalactic police force. The movie version will be directed by Martin Campbell and will star Ryan Reynolds as Hal. We also found out a few days ago that Blake Lively has joined the cast as Carol Ferris, a.k.a. the girlfriend, and that Peter Saarsgard has joined as Dr. Hector Hammond who is a villain with a really large head.
Are you getting my good side?
I can’t say much about the two new cast members because I really don’t know them, but I always liked the casting of Reynolds because he basically plays Hal in every movie that he does. The only bit of casting that anyone cares about that we haven’t gotten yet is who will be playing Hal’s arch-nemesis Sinestro. I’m hoping that comes along soon.
