Green Lantern (2011)- Casting News

[gbeenie]

Gah! I told you, I never wanted to see a female Oompa Loompa!

Ah, the "good old" days of four-color comics printing!

[Thom_Serveaux]

Well I for one am SHOCKED and APPALLED!

That no one has either seen the following video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/5xcMxnNzp2I

...or posted it here, due to the nature of the topic at hand.

...so enjoy

          ....and be prepared to ROFL!!!

[Darth Geek]

Well I for one am SHOCKED and APPALLED!

That no one has either seen the following video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/5xcMxnNzp2I

...or posted it here, due to the nature of the topic at hand.

...so enjoy

          ....and be prepared to ROFL!!!

I love those.

[Sharktopus]

Well I for one am SHOCKED and APPALLED!

That no one has either seen the following video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/5xcMxnNzp2I

...or posted it here, due to the nature of the topic at hand.

Didn't I? Oops. I thought I had. I'm only subscribed to 3 YouTube feeds, and his is one of them. Great stuff.

[Thom_Serveaux]

Well if you guys like these, then you might want to check out Redheadhenry, he sort of does the same thing, but with Might Muggs.  He doesn't do the comic/pop culture/movie commentary thing,. It's more like Toy Story, that is to say that they know themselves to be toys.   They have no other point of reference other than the store where they were bought, and the apartment of the person who bought them, and little else...

[CrowTeeRobot]

Well I for one am SHOCKED and APPALLED!

That no one has either seen the following video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/5xcMxnNzp2I

...or posted it here, due to the nature of the topic at hand.

Didn't I? Oops. I thought I had. I'm only subscribed to 3 YouTube feeds, and his is one of them. Great stuff.

God I love Deadpool.

[Darth Geek]

Well I for one am SHOCKED and APPALLED!

That no one has either seen the following video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/5xcMxnNzp2I

...or posted it here, due to the nature of the topic at hand.

Didn't I? Oops. I thought I had. I'm only subscribed to 3 YouTube feeds, and his is one of them. Great stuff.

God I love Deadpool.

I like that they seem to have gotten the character much better in this short, with action figures, than Wolverine did.

[Thom_Serveaux]

NO! NO! NOT The guitar!

***BLAM!***

LUCILLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sharktopus]

This is very promising:

Mark Strong (Sherlock Holmes, upcoming Kick-Ass and Robin Hood) talked to USA Weekend about playing Sinestro in Warner Bros. Pictures' Green Lantern:

"For anybody who's familiar with the Green Lantern and the origin story, the film closely follows the early comics," Strong said. "Sinestro starts out as Hal Jordan's mentor, slightly suspicious and not sure of him because obviously Hal is the first human being who's made into a Green Lantern. He's certainly very strict and certainly unsure of the wisdom of Hal becoming a Green Lantern."

Strong added that "[Sinestro] is a military guy but isn't immediately bad. It's the kind of person he is that lends himself to becoming bad over the course of the comics being written, but initially he's quite a heroic figure."

The actor said that the costume and other aspects of the character closely follow the character's early days. "That widow's peak and thin mustache was for some reason originally based on David Niven, and Hal Jordan was based on Errol Flynn," said Strong, who recently got fitted for special Sinestro contact lenses.

"In the '30s and '40s, they shared an apartment together in Hollywood when they were making movies and they were great friends. Obviously at the time, whoever was doing the original comics must have looked at them as guys doing very well in the film industry, and based those characters on them. So I would like to do justice to the Sinestro that was conceived for the comic books."

I love that he's done some research into the comics. 

[pezdrake]

This portrait of David Niven IS a dead ringer for Sinestro:

[Darth Geek]

This portrait of David Niven IS a dead ringer for Sinestro:

Wow!  He's got the hair and the forehead and everything. I always though Sinestro looked so goofy, of all the characters to look like a real person...

So who was Kilowog based on?

[Sharktopus]

So who was Kilowog based on?

?

[gbeenie]

I beg to differ, sir.

[Sharktopus]

[Sharktopus]

"I say, Jordan, welcome to the Corps, old boy."