Earlier today we got to see the first photos of the principal cast of the Marvel Comics film The Avengers assembled together at 2010 San Diego Comic-Con yesterday afternoon and right now we get to see the principal cast of the DC Comics film Green Lantern also assembled at Comic-Con yesterday as well. As you [...]
Earlier today we got to see the first photos of the principal cast of the Marvel Comics film The Avengers assembled together at 2010 San Diego Comic-Con yesterday afternoon and right now we get to see the principal cast of the DC Comics film Green Lantern also assembled at Comic-Con yesterday as well. As you should be well aware by now, Ryan Reynolds plays the lead hero Hal Jordan/Green Lantern alongside Blake Lively as Carol Ferris and villains Mark Strong as Sinestro and Peter Sarsgaard as Dr. Hector Hammond. Here is our first look at all of these actors together on stage at Comic-Con yesterday afternoon:
Ryan Reynolds says he took the title role in “Green Lantern” to play a hero that can “throw a punch, tell a joke and kiss a girl.” The actor, along with castmates Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard and Mark Strong and director Martin Campbell, presented a clip from the film at Comic-Con Saturday for some 6,000 ecstatic fans, many of whom camped out overnight for a chance to see the presentation. Campbell says the 3-D movie blends realistic action with humor and an otherworldly trip to the planet Oa, home of the Green Lanterns. He added that while the hero’s costume is “a work in progress,” his cinematic story is set: He is joined by his fellow Green Lanterns for a face-off against Parallax, whom Reynolds describes as “the physical manifestation of fear in our movie.” The clip showed Reynolds as Hal Jordan, who, after a fight with street thugs, takes the Green Lantern oath and uses his new powers to blow them away. Reynolds recited the oath for the Comic-Con crowd, which rewarded him with cheers. The cast seemed to embrace the Comic-Con energy, and revealed which characters they’d dress up with if they could walk the convention floor. Reynolds would go as a Wookie because he likes to “be cute and dangerous.” Lively would dress as Harry Potter and Sarsgaard would go as Captain America. Strong said he’d dress as his “Green Lantern” character, Sinestro. DC Comics chief Geoff Johns hinted that other Green Lantern films, and a Justice League movie, could follow: “The success of ‘Green Lantern’ will lead the charge for everything DC does.”
It’s really cool to see the principal castmembers all assembled together … I have high hopes that Green Lantern will be a big enough smash film that DC Comics will move forward with films based on their other iconic superheroes … like The Flash and Wonder Woman! If Green Lantern does well, I’m certain plans will move forward to make other DC superhero films leading up to an eventual Justice League film. I think they got the casting so right for Green Lantern, I can’t wait to see Mark Strong as Sinestro. I just want to see more, more, more … thankfully we only have to wait ’til next year to see Green Lantern on the big screen.
[Photo credit: X17, Wireimage; Source]
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