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Paper Man is an indie film in which Ryan Reynolds plays Jeff Daniels’ super hero imaginary friend. Two things: 1) If Ryan Reynolds looks this hot in spandex, I can’t wait to see his CGI suit in Green Lanter, and 2) RR better not being his silly-stupid persona to Green Lantern, like he does in every other movie, including this one.
When I read Towleroad’s headline in my Twitter feed this morning, I nearly shit a brick. The headline reads: Ryan Reynolds Won’t Wear Costume As Green Lantern. I couldn’t read the full article on my iPhone while on Muni. But, based solely on the headline, I was pissed. Was Ryan pulling a Tom Welling and going sans costume? I was ready to boycott the damn movie.
The first thing I did when I sat down at my desk was check out full the post at Towleroad. Okay, okay. Cool down. I’m better now. Turns out that the costume designer wants to make the costume entirely computer generated. Now, that I can get behind! Here’s what the costumer designer had to say:
“[Costume designer Ngila Dickson] was tasked with trying to find a way to do something that stands apart from all of the other superheroes spandex suit designs we’ve seen in the past. Honestly, isn’t the look becoming overused? Remember, the Green Lantern suit is something that should look alien — it needs to seem other worldly. It encompasses any creature that wears the ring, and Hal Jordan is the first human to ever wear the suit. This was a chance for Dickson to do something different. You also have to consider that Hal changes into the suit multiple times in mid scene, and the cg also allows him to do this. I’ve heard that when the cg is complete, the suit will look like a manifestation of his power. And while I couldn’t confirm this, I’ve heard that DC’s Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns has seen the designs and given them his blessing. The suit is lined with white LEDs, which I initially thought might be used to give a practical glow (kind of like how Billy Crudup wore blue LEDs to give the actors around Dr. Manhattan a blue glow in Watchmen), but I’ve since been told might just be for mo-cap tracking purposes.”
Via SocialiteLife:
In a recent interview with MTV News, Ryan Reynolds discussed his highly anticipated film “Green Lantern.” With shooting set to begin within the next year, Reynolds best described the film by saying, “It is [an origin] story to a certain degree, but it’s not a labored origin story, where the movie begins in the third act. The movie starts when it starts. We find out Hal is the guy fairly early on, and the adventure begins.”
Reynolds went on to suggest that viewers will likely “walk away from this first film, and the moments that [they will] remember and the moments that [will mean so much to them], not unlike ‘Iron Man’ [will be] the moments where the guy’s not in the suit.”
With “Green Lantern” being just one of two comic movies in the works for Reynolds, the other is “Deadpool,” it appears that viewers can look forward to a ton of action, and some memorable moments!
I like this fan art, but I’m hoping Ryan’s suit will be even more revealing…
The big comic-book-movie news du jour is that Ryan Reynolds (and not Bradley Cooper, as I had previously posted) has been cast as Hal Jordan in the upcoming Green Lantern movie. I’m not sure how I feel about that. Ryan is usually so silly, even when playing a badass role like in Blade 3. However, he did pull of psycho crazy in The Amityville Horror. I never saw Wolverine (gasp, I know, how dare I call myself a fanboy?) so I can’t speak to how good he was in that movie. I’m at least glad that they picked someone with a rockin’ body to play my favorite green super hero.
I’d like to believe that this fine specimen of Canadian bacon showed off the bulge below on the red carpet. Somehow, though, it just screams FACON (fake bacon). Totally looks Photoshopped. What do you think?
So they enlisted the hobbit (Dominic Monaghan) to play Beak/Blackwing. And a whole host of other cast/characters. Maybe this movie won’t suck as much as I thought it would:
From JustJared:
Monaghan, 31, be joining Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), Liev Schreiber (Sabretooth), Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool), Taylor Kitsch (Gambit), Will.i.am (Kestrel), Danny Huston (William Stryker), and Lynn Collins (Silver Fox).
