Fan Rants

So it looks like we may know who Ryan Reynolds will be tussling with in the Green Lantern movie next year, Hector Hammond. The Hollywood Reporter is stating that Hector will be played by Peter Sarsgaard, best known to me for his role in Jarhead and K-19. This comes just about a week after it was announced that Blake Lively was cast as Carol Ferris in the film.

For those of you not familiar with Hector Hammond, he is a pretty petty criminal who stumbles upon a meteorite that causes him to ‘evolve’, basically super increasing his intellect. Now a side effect in the comic is the fact that his head is enlarged also. Looks goofy actually, but in the 60’s that was a good thing for supervillains. Not sure how they will play that up in the movie or maybe skip it all together.

He’s a good villain for Green Lantern and it’s probably not best to pop GL’s nemesis Sinestro in the first movie. Sure he will be in the second film (am I getting ahead of myself?).

After months of rumors and false starts, today Warner Brothers and DC Entertainment gave the big thumb ring up for the Green Lantern movie. This according to Karen Goulekas the visual effects supervisor on her blog:

 ”‘Green Lantern’ got the official green light today,” she reported yesterday. “And not a second too soon — only 10 weeks out from shooting!”

So looks like March we will see Ryan Reynolds donning the green and black tights. This will be the second comic book character for Ryan as he is staring in the Deadpool film also. I really enjoy him as an actor and while I find his snarky humor more related for the Deadpool character than Hal Jordan (Green Lantern) I have the utmost confidence that he will pull off both roles well.

(Oh, and that is not an official shot of Ryan, just a fan rendition of what he may look like in the role.)