Screw Ryan Reynolds

[GiantRaven]

Why bother? It's not as if there aren't already bunch of really cool female superheroes...

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

Would. Watch. =D

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.

Words fail me. Have you ever stepped into a comic book shop?

 

[Thaluikhain]

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.

You have a point there...though, alternatively you could just hand the movies over to someone other than Hollywood. The Bat family, for example, was, IMHO, more about being gritty than about the action. If they didn't wear stupid costumes, they could almost be a BBC police drama of the sort that every inhabitant of the UK is legally obliged to be in.

 

[Laxman9292]

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.

Because Hal Jordan is THE Green Lantern, the one everyone immediately thinks of. There are girl Lanterns in the corps but changing the origin of the most popular one to make him arbitrarily into a woman is just stupid. Hell, I know people who got pissed off about Samuel L. Jackson playing Nick Fury because they arbitrarily decided to go with the Ultimate Nick Fury rather than the classic one that everyone thinks of first.

 

[Canadish]

Myself, I don't think RR works at all, so I wouldn't really mind.
It would certainly be something a bit different, and I think Lantern powers would suit a female character without looking daft.
Plus, I want you to place a hollywood actress in that skintight suit with your mind.
See? You'd watch that movie for that alone

But I think that would upset comic book fans, so probably not a good idea.

 

[GiantRaven]

It would certainly be something a bit different, and I think Lantern powers would suit a female character without looking daft.

How does gender factor into that all?

 

[Canadish]

It would certainly be something a bit different, and I think Lantern powers would suit a female character without looking daft.

How does gender factor into that all?

I don't really know how do describe it.
Green Lantern powers just seem to suit females in my head. It just kinda works.
I couldn't give you a fair or logically thought out reason for that

 

[ImprovizoR]

I like Ryan Reynolds. Why? Well because he fucked Scarlet Johansson. Which also makes me a bit jealous of him, and that's an emotion I don't experience very often. And he's funny. Did you see Van Wilder?

But I wouldn't mind a female Green Lantern. Especially if she just happens to be Scarlet Johansson. In that tight green suit. Oh man, just thinking about it gave me a huge boner.

 

[Someone Depressing]

I can agree on you with the whole "Why is the GL always a guy?" statement. But he's a good actor and I can't think of an Actress that would suit the role, It's not Natalie Portman's thing, Megan Fox sucks, Mara Wilson quit, Heather Morris is cheesy as fuck, and the REAL Heather Morris is only a Voice-Actress.
I, for one, can't think of a Female Actor to suit the role, really.

 

[Trivun]

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.

Provided you didn't spoil the ending for me, I would seriously love that film to be made. I would pay good money to see Batman become a Green Lantern. Also, he'd be even more able to kick Clark Kent's smug asshole face from here back to Krypton, not that he couldn't already (he has to have some Kryptonite somewhere in that cave of his, right?).

Anyway, as far as female heroes go, there are plenty already in comics, but I'd love to see more films made of them. Not crappy ones like Catwoman, either, as you say, and I can't comment on Elektra because I never saw it. I've never been much of a DC person, Batman's the only DC character I actually like (aside from Hal Jordan, but that's only after seeing the Green Lantern trailer a while back). But if I had to pick, I'd love to see a film made about the Birds of Prey, or even just about Barbara Gordon. Set it in the current film continuity, get Chris Nolan in to direct again, and have it a few years in the future so the ages match up okay (since she's still a kid in the current films, set it maybe ten-fifteen years later and have her in her mid-twenties or something). That could work. They'd need to have a new backstory about how she became a cripple (and thus Oracle) since the Joker's dead, or just have it in her Batgirl days as she's being trained as a successor to Bruce Wayne. Screw Robin, by the way, there's no way he'd fit in well with the Nolan-verse, but Barbara Gordon would if treated well.

As for Marvel, my usual source of passion, pretty much every female superhero so far in films as been part of a group (X-Men, Fantastic Four, S.H.I.E.L.D. or working with Iron Man half the time). So, why not focus on one of them specifically in their own film? Maybe an 'anti-hero' film of sorts told from Emma Frost's perspective? Or a film about Black Widow (best part is it could tie in really well with the current film continuity they're going for now)? So many possibilities...

 

[emeraldrafael]

How about a hero that girls could look up to? And please, no one say Catwoman because Halle Berry was awful.

I suppose Hit Girl, Storm, and Jean Grey dont count as heroins girls can look up to. Or, you know, Wonderwoman (since she's been around for ages). Or Blackwidow, or the woman from Aeon Flux.

Anyway, I dont think they should change it now. Not cause I dont believe women shouldnt be Superheroine, but just cause, the green lantern that they want to follow and source the movie is a male.

Also, you could make the argument of why they didnt make Batman a woman. Or why any of the other hero movies that came out recently couldnt be women instead.

Besides that, Ryan is a good actor, and I think he'll fit the role well.

 

[DustyDrB]

Either "Screw Ryan Reynolds" is a new video game with a premise that might tempt me into questioning my sexuality, or someone posted this thread in the wrong forum.

 

[REZNoR_greed]

I, for one, can't think of a Female Actor to suit the role, really.

Chloe Moretz, just for the hell of it.

 

[Flauros]

So basically undo the entire source material to hoping to make a more popular movie?


HOLY SHIT

NOONE HAS EVER THOUGHT OF THAT BEFORE!

someone call Hollywood, we got a hot one here. Man, this will shake up the entire industry.....

 

[Lrbearclaw]

I thought this was a hate thread for Ryan Reynolds and now I am disappoint. This guy is going to run the Deadpool movie into the ground like a rocket powered freight train falling from orbit. He doesn't have the chops to pull of a superhero movie(or anything else for that matter)

I more blame the writers for the "crappy" Deadpool in Origins. Now I have not seen Reynolds in ANY movie but XO:W and have to say he did great as the Merc-With-A-Mouth. Watch the beginning again (elevator scene for example), That was Deadpool... well before his mind snapped like an over-extended rubber band.

That could work. They'd need to have a new backstory about how she became a cripple (and thus Oracle) since the Joker's dead,

Umm.... Joker did not die in Dark Knight. The actor did well after it was made. You CAN replace an actor. It would not be "that hard".

But then I was bummed that Mark Hammill did not get to be Joker in TDK...

 

[GiantRaven]

It's not Natalie Portman's thing

I dunno, I'd happily watch a film with Portman starring as a superhero.

 

[goliath6711]

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.

Okay, now that we've established that your post has absolutely NOTHING TO DO WITH RYAN REYNOLDS, let's examine what the real meaning behind it is.

You want to take an established comic book series and completely throw its established main character out and replace it with someone unrelated in some vain attempt at a female superhero movie?

Why not have Kara Zor-el be the one to crash to Earth and be raised by the Kents to become Supergirl? Screw Bruce Wayne, let's have Barbara Gordon be the rich kid whose parents are murdered in an alley and becomes Batgirl. Let's have Frank Castle's wife be the lone survivor of the Castle family to become the Punisher. Let's kill Tony Stark during his imprisonment so we can have Pepper Potts assume the mantle of Iron Woman. You see where this is going?

How would you feel if there was suddenly going to be a movie about Wonder Man (not the Marvel version)? What if there was a Witchblade movie in which instead of Sara Pezzini, the wielder of the witchblade changed to Jake McCarthy? "But isn't it established in the comic that only women can use it?" Who cares! We need to shake things up!

And as for Bruce Wayne becoming Green Lantern instead of Hal Jordan, let me ask you this. What do you think the reaction would be if any of the following changes became officially recognized canon: Kal-El is raised by Russian farmers and is the Soviet Union's national hero(Superman: Red Son), Kal-El is adopted by the Waynes and goes through the exact same process of becoming Batman with superpowers (Superman: Speeding Bullets), Batman fought Dracula and is turned into a vampire (Batman & Dracula), all of Marvel's superheroes and supervillains become flesh eating zombies that consume the entire world in a week (Marvel Zombies).

Don't forget, this is the first live action Green Lantern movie ever. Just like Iron Man in 2008, this will be the first introduction of this character to a lot of people. Why would you want to drastically change the characters for no beneficial reason than to say it's different? At least "Ultimate" Nick Fury was introduced years before Samuel L. Jackson took the role so the change wasn't that jarring.

 

[sylekage]

My guess is that there's never been a chick Green Lantern. (On Earth anyhow) So it would make a lot of people rage, and also, they're going after a certain persons story arc, I.E. Hal Jordan.

 

[GiantRaven]

My guess is that there's never been a chick Green Lantern. (On Earth anyhow)

Spoiler: You guess wrong.

 

[sylekage]

My guess is that there's never been a chick Green Lantern. (On Earth anyhow)

Spoiler: You guess wrong.

Well then I'm a horrible horrible person..

Anywho, I kinda dropped away from Green Lantern before she came on the scene, My apologies

 

[warthoggunner]

Read the titel, clicked on it, and then i was disappointed...
jk
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I think a strong female supporting role would be enough.
Maybe Jade?