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Ryan Reynolds Compares Green Lantern to Star Wars, Clearly Hasn't Seen Trailers for Green Lantern

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (19)

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Reynolds, speaking to the Los Angeles Times:

“I wandered through the art department, and that’s what sold me, seeing this universe that’s created and the scale of it all. They’re taking the Green Lantern canon from the comics and they’re extending it out into this new medium. Our goal is to make the first superhero who really goes on a ‘Star Wars’ kind of epic journey, and this mythology goes back a lot further than ‘Star Wars.’” … “[Green Lantern] a classic male. Han Solo, who was witty but not really funny, was one of the touchstones.”








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Comments

Hmm. Read a lot of Green Lantern when I was a kid. Don't recall Hal Jordan ever being "witty but not really funny".

Posted by: Uncle JR at April 28, 2011 8:56 AM

R2 is delusional or hyping. Nobody gives a shit about Green Lantern. It's like rooting for the Pirates. I should know.

Posted by: , at April 28, 2011 9:01 AM

There were an estimated 1,100 people at the Bucs game last night. So that means I'm setting the over/under for GL attendance at 1,100. I'm gonna be one, so I only need 1,100 more people to hit the over.

Also...

11-13 baby, two games outta first!

Posted by: Socrates_Johnson at April 28, 2011 9:12 AM

Er, I actually meant Monday night, but I doubt last night was much better.

Posted by: Socrates_Johnson at April 28, 2011 9:17 AM

Apathy heap...growing...

Posted by: zeke the pig at April 28, 2011 9:18 AM

I'm rapidly reaching info overload on the whole GL movie thing.

Posted by: Meander at April 28, 2011 9:26 AM

i've already reached it. the backlash may start at any moment.

Posted by: splinter at April 28, 2011 9:34 AM

I think the Green Lantern movies would be CGI crap but even I wouldn't so far as to compare them to Star Wars. That's just mean

Posted by: Comment at April 28, 2011 9:38 AM

In another article there, James McAvoy compares Saved By the Bell: The New Class X-Men: The First Class to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. What are we expecting other than empty movie hype and meaningless interview snippets?

They also feature other such news items as:
"Captain America: Chris Evans says CG team 'nailed it'"
"Thor: Chris Hemsworth studied Mike Tyson and took hammer lessons"

Throw me onto the apathy heap as well.

Posted by: branded at April 28, 2011 10:03 AM

"Thor: Chris Hemsworth studied Mike Tyson and took hammer lessons"

Sooo, Chris studied 1989? Because if I see Thor do that 2 legit 2 quit dance then I'll believe Loki has won.

Posted by: Mrcreosote at April 28, 2011 10:09 AM

"Thor: Chris Hemsworth studied Mike Tyson and took hammer lessons"

Now I can't stop picturing him in parachute pants dancing to U Can't Touch This.

Posted by: Sofia at April 28, 2011 10:15 AM

Socrates:

It's our year. Not saying which year that is (sometime before 2025, I hope).

What's your 20?

Posted by: , at April 28, 2011 10:59 AM

@ Mrcreosote, if that happens, we all win.

Posted by: Groundloop at April 28, 2011 11:39 AM

2011? (HAH!)

Seriously though, if they actually keep some of these young guys around, (assuming Pedro Alvarez ever remembers how to hit) and some of those guys they drafted last year (Taillon, Heredia, Allie) they might actually be pretty good by 2014.

It also helps that the NL Central blows.

Posted by: Socrates_Johnson at April 28, 2011 11:45 AM

@Socrates_Johnson and ,: What the hell are you two gabbin' on about?

Now, if Thor doesn't say "It's Hammer Time!" when he gets Mjolnir back, I'm going to walk out of the theater.

Okay, not really. But I'll want to.

Posted by: RobP at April 28, 2011 11:57 AM

They should save it for a Fantastic Four/Avengers crossover.

The Thing: "It clobbering time!"

Thor: "Save your rage my gamboge hued compatriot. It's HAMMER time!"

Posted by: Socrates_Johnson at April 28, 2011 12:26 PM

And boom goes the dynamite.

Posted by: RobP at April 28, 2011 12:42 PM

sometimes you guys really sap all the fun out of movies

Posted by: idleprimate at April 28, 2011 10:16 PM

@Sofia - Hemsworth was on Australia's 'Dancing with the Stars' and he seemed really into it. And he was GOOD, I saw a clip. He wasn't wearing Hammer pants, though.

Posted by: Sian at April 29, 2011 7:52 PM