Ryan Reynolds is The Green Lantern

Simon Brew

Has Ryan Reynolds just put the Deadpool movie on the back burner by agreeing to play The Green Lantern?

Published on Jul 13, 2009

Last week, we reported that Warner Bros and director Martin Campbell's search for the lead in its adaptation of DC Comics' The Green Lantern has been narrowed down to three people. Those three - Bradley Cooper, Justin Timberlake and Ryan Reynolds - have now been narrowed down to one, and now it's being reported that it's Reynolds who has landed himself the role. Jared Leto was apparently in the mix too, incidentally.

This is the second comic book movie that Reynolds is set to headline, given that he's got his own X-Men spin-off movie coming, Deadpool. He'll be slipping into his Green Lantern outfit in January, when production on the film begins. And the film itself is then due for release on June 17th, 2011.

That's going to see it arriving in the midst of quite a summer. Already scheduled in are Transformers 3, Spider-Man 4, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part II, Thor, Cars 2 and Kung Fu Panda 2. Yikes.

You can wager we won't be seeing that Deadpool movie before 2011, mind.

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Re: Ryan Reynolds is The Green Lantern
Posted By capt_1ntens0 1 July 23, 2009 10:51:22 PM

Great bit of casing if they play it relatively straight (although I accept its a blockbuster and that comes with certain one liner requirements). Thing is Green Lantern is not a childish or comedy title, these days its actually very dark and violent. If they go down the comedy route, combined with the green ring constructs, they might as well call it The Mask 2. I dread to think. Campbell can direct an action flick though so fingers crossed...