Screw Ryan Reynolds

[Batfred]

Totally they should have based the film on Mongo not Hal Jordan.

I hope it goes well so they can make a Hal Jordan, Oliver Queen road movie. Now who to play the Green Arrow?

The guy from Smallville does it relatively well (not great, but good enough) Justin Hartley [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1261997/].
Does that mean that we need to cast a Black Canary and possibly a Huntress? Dibs on being in charge of that casting session!

 

[Mitjer]

You don't want a feminine Green Lantern, you just want a superheroine that they will make a good movie about rather than the recent superheromovies stariing males. And you know that heroine you wish girls could look up to? How about Wonder Woman who had a really good animated movie and if we're lucky will have a good tv show.

And that whole thing about Green Lanterns being "a person - any person". How about an Africa-American with the name John Stewart.

And good work trying to cover yourself with a joke about Batman so that your opinion about the sexes becomes less serious when in reality your just trying to come off as a good guy making a dumb comment.

 

[octafish]

Totally they should have based the film on Mongo not Hal Jordan.

I hope it goes well so they can make a Hal Jordan, Oliver Queen road movie. Now who to play the Green Arrow?

The guy from Smallville does it relatively well (not great, but good enough) Justin Hartley [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1261997/].
Does that mean that we need to cast a Black Canary and possibly a Huntress? Dibs on being in charge of that casting session!

Oh he's just a kid, maybe Alexander Skarsgard though (I'm a big Generation Kill fan).

 

[Misho-]

Hmmm...

I don't actually know much about the Green Lantern franchise, here in the UK, you have to go out of your way to read about most of less popular super heros.

First thing I thought...


Besides what's your beef with Ryan Reynolds?? He's a good actor.

You might want to rename your thread to What if there there a female Green Lantern? Or... I want a female Green Lantern...

 

[Tibike77]

Just one question : was Batman EVER (even just for one single issue in any of the universes) a member of the Green Lantern Corps ?
If so, what issue(s) of what comic(s) ?

 

[Reveras]

Well ya know... why don't they just ignore everything about batman and make him female, srly. Screw him, make him a chick.

 

[Snake Plissken]

Totally, and while we're at it, let force every other movie to have a female lead. That makes sense, right?

You want girls to have a hero to look up to in film?

Spoiler: They already have one

I know, it's only one, but it's the ULTIMATE one. When you've got her to look up to, you need nobody else.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I think they're trying to stick reasonably close to the source material so that's why they went with Reynolds. However I don't know much about the Green Lantern franchise to really say for sure.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

Changing gender for the sake of changing gender? What's the damned point?

 

[Kpt._Rob]

So first off, the Green Lantern film is based on an already existing story arc. Second, while I agree that there isn't a lot of gender balance in the suerhero world, switching an existing character like that is arbitrary and would not go over well with anyone. Third, they're already working really really really hard to prove to you that they can't handle a female hero anyways. Just look at all the bullshit with this new Wonder Woman show. I saw a video of the casting session the other day, the sort of lines they've got, the costume, some of the other things I've heard about this show, it sounds terribad. WW is an awesome hero because she's this powerful feminist figure, but instead of portraying her as awesome as she is they're gonna fuck it up and make her one of the same inane female characters that Hollywood always uses. So, before we go about changing another character, let's be sure that they can get the ones who are already around right.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Well it's not like their aren't any female lanterns, pretty much every corps has some, with the exception of orange lanterns, the Indigo lanterns are lead by a woman, and the violet lanterns are only women (Which is kind of sexist. I'd like to think that buried deep inside of our Y chromosome there exist the capacity to love).

Ugh...the violet lanterns. An exclusively female group wearing almost pink "clothes", armed with the power of heart. What moron came up with that idea?

 

[fletch_talon]

Just one question : was Batman EVER (even just for one single issue in any of the universes) a member of the Green Lantern Corps ?
If so, what issue(s) of what comic(s) ?

I swear I watched an episode (searching leads me to think it was "The Eyes of Despero") of Batman: The Brave and the Bold, where Batman had a green lantern ring and was kicking arse with it. But I can't find the damned clip.

 

[Devias-]

You know what I think?

I think Green Lantern should be a chick. And why not? The whole idea of Green Lantern is that it's a person - any person - and so why shouldn't it be a chick? Superheroes are a sausage-fest anyways.

Hal Jordan was great, but what if we did something new? How about a hero that girls could look up to? And please, no one say Catwoman because Halle Berry was awful.

Although, if you're going to give magic to anyone, and that magic is accessible via willpower, intelligence, and imagination then there's only one person truly worthy of that power, and that's Bruce Wayne. The goddamn Batman with a Green Lantern ring? Fuck yea.

Having a female character as a protagonist in a Green Lantern movie is retarded simply because it doesn't make any sense at all. Golden Age GL was Alan Scott. Silver Age GL was Hal Jordan. The most popular GL of the Modern Age is Kyle Rayner.

A trait you have to possess in order to wield the ring is to overcome fear. I'd say Hal Jordan beats Bruce in this aspect. No, he's not scarier, of course. But Bruce has a lot to fear than Jordan has. Besides, that would destroy the entire point of Batman in the first place. The more I write, the less sense your post makes, which makes me think that it's highly likely this is a joke.

Female comic book characters are nowhere close to being close against other male characters in terms of popularity.

And what does this have to do with Ryan Reynolds? I like the guy.

 

[Samwise137]

Well it's not like their aren't any female lanterns, pretty much every corps has some, with the exception of orange lanterns, the Indigo lanterns are lead by a woman, and the violet lanterns are only women (Which is kind of sexist. I'd like to think that buried deep inside of our Y chromosome there exist the capacity to love).

Ugh...the violet lanterns. An exclusively female group wearing almost pink "clothes", armed with the power of heart. What moron came up with that idea?

That would be Geoff Johns.

OT: I dislike RR but I still maintain that Hal Jordan would be the logical choice for a Green Lantern movie. The formula that seems to work for superhero movies these days is to stick with the comic. If you don't, you wind up like SpiderMan. Good for a while but begins to wear on you pretty quick.

 

[Devias-]

Well it's not like their aren't any female lanterns, pretty much every corps has some, with the exception of orange lanterns, the Indigo lanterns are lead by a woman, and the violet lanterns are only women (Which is kind of sexist. I'd like to think that buried deep inside of our Y chromosome there exist the capacity to love).

Ugh...the violet lanterns. An exclusively female group wearing almost pink "clothes", armed with the power of heart. What moron came up with that idea?

That would be Geoff Johns.

OT: I dislike RR but I still maintain that Hal Jordan would be the logical choice for a Green Lantern movie. The formula that seems to work for superhero movies these days is to stick with the comic. If you don't, you wind up like SpiderMan. Good for a while but begins to wear on you pretty quick.

Although I detest the fact that they're rebooting the Spider-Man franchise, it made me realize how much I liked Tobey McGuire as Peter Parker/Spiderman. Sure, he wasn't perfect, but I would blame it on the writer than on the acting. Out of all the comic book movies so far, he's probably the one who resembles their character the most.

CAPTCHA: oooooo erndayst

 

[Thaluikhain]

WW is an awesome hero because she's this powerful feminist figure, but instead of portraying her as awesome as she is they're gonna fuck it up and make her one of the same inane female characters that Hollywood always uses. So, before we go about changing another character, let's be sure that they can get the ones who are already around right.

I dunno...in most of the comics I've read, she seems to be a female version of Superman, who's often fairly boring himself.

Maybe I've not read the right ones though. I gave up on the Gail Simone WW stuff...if the person behind the latter Birds of Prey can't make WW interesting, something is wrong somwhere.

Now, a Huntress movie, or a Cassandra Cain movie, if done right, could be awesome.

OT: I dislike RR but I still maintain that Hal Jordan would be the logical choice for a Green Lantern movie. The formula that seems to work for superhero movies these days is to stick with the comic. If you don't, you wind up like SpiderMan. Good for a while but begins to wear on you pretty quick.

I dunno, they all have to take massive liberties. Even the good Batman movies, for example, ahd to neglect all mention of the JLA, aliens, magicians, greek gods and so on. Yes, it wouldn't have fit in a movie, but it's a major part of the DC universe that Batman hangs out with people like Superman, Zatanna and Wonder Woman.

 

[Kpt._Rob]

WW is an awesome hero because she's this powerful feminist figure, but instead of portraying her as awesome as she is they're gonna fuck it up and make her one of the same inane female characters that Hollywood always uses. So, before we go about changing another character, let's be sure that they can get the ones who are already around right.

I dunno...in most of the comics I've read, she seems to be a female version of Superman, who's often fairly boring himself.

Maybe I've not read the right ones though. I gave up on the Gail Simone WW stuff...if the person behind the latter Birds of Prey can't make WW interesting, something is wrong somwhere.

Now, a Huntress movie, or a Cassandra Cain movie, if done right, could be awesome.

OT: I dislike RR but I still maintain that Hal Jordan would be the logical choice for a Green Lantern movie. The formula that seems to work for superhero movies these days is to stick with the comic. If you don't, you wind up like SpiderMan. Good for a while but begins to wear on you pretty quick.

I dunno, they all have to take massive liberties. Even the good Batman movies, for example, ahd to neglect all mention of the JLA, aliens, magicians, greek gods and so on. Yes, it wouldn't have fit in a movie, but it's a major part of the DC universe that Batman hangs out with people like Superman, Zatanna and Wonder Woman.

I used to feel that way about Superman, that he was boring, but I actually think that he and Wonder Woman are in the same boat, that is that how interesting they are depends really heavily on who's writing them. I always suggest that people read Superman: Sacrifice if they want to see how interesting both Supes and WW can be, though WW perhaps isn't even at her top in that one. Still, it wasn't one of the comics, but I remember at one point I watched one of the newer Justice League movies with my brother, in one scene near the beginning WW has just freed a village of women in South America from the tyrannical rule of some men (who, it is implied, have abused them in a number of ways). WW leaves the men tied up and helpless so that the newly liberated and recently armed women can do as they please to them. You can't tell me that a character like that couldn't be really interesting!

 

[Thaluikhain]

I used to feel that way about Superman, that he was boring, but I actually think that he and Wonder Woman are in the same boat, that is that how interesting they are depends really heavily on who's writing them.

Ok, yeah, but that's true of more or less everyone. I've seen lots of characters have ups and downs with various writers, but I've not seen Superman or WW done interesting (yet)...excepting in brief cameos in other people's stories, when it wasn't about them.

 

[Harlief]

I'm not saying that female super heroes shouldn't be done, but you should at least try and wait until Hollywood gets its s*** together and starts scripting female characters with depth as a general rule. Beatrix Kiddos are few and far between.

Having said that, I'm in my early 20s and I don't expect this massive leap to be made in my lifetime.

 

[CheckD3]

I feel like it's unfair to criticize casting of certain people as characters before we actually get to see how they do.

It's like how people have been upset with Mark Wahlberg as Nathan Drake before he's been given a chance to prove he's a good fit for the role. Same here with Reynolds. How do you know he won't be a fantastic Green Lantern?

Plus, while many of the movies aren't cannon to the comics, the character design is based off of the existing models, writing a new character as the lead requires a lot more work, and many people who are a fan of certain characters, especially with a franchise with as many characters as Green Lantern, would be turned off by a new character in the place of their favorites

Comic movies, while trying to add new exciting elements, have to appeal to the fans of the series, and make it easier to break into the comics if they like the movie.

Don't hate Reynolds because he got the part, hate him if he does a bad job. That's starting to get on my nerves listening to people complain about someone getting a part they probably worked hard to deserve, and he's already being crucified before he gets a chance to show the audience why he deserved it, all that I'm saying, is give Ryan a chance to impress us, if he doesn't, THEN you can criticize.