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08 Sep

Green Lantern Cast: When Even Talent Can’t Save a Sinking Ship

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Our favorite movie stars can usually buoy a bad production into being passable, but sometimes a film is so misguided that not even a great cast can save it. Look at any one of Garry Marshall’s holiday movies, Brian De Palma’s infamous Bonfire of the Vanities adaptation, or shudder at the thought of Movie 43 and you’ll see that no number of Oscar winners or box office titans can save a truly bad film. It doesn’t matter if George Clooney is in your cowl when the Batsuit has nipples on it. A notorious, shining example of the “great cast, bad…
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03 Sep

Could Green Lantern Enthusiasm on Netflix Finally Will a DCEU Movie Into Existence?

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It’s a miracle akin to the ring itself: 2011’s Green Lantern, starring Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan, has shot up to the top of Netflix’s Top 10 U.S. Movies list just two days after dropping on the streaming service. It’s at #3 as of this writing, with way more viewers likely to stream it over the weekend. While this may come as a surprise to those who first watched the film in theaters in 2011, interest in a Green Lantern movie has never been stronger. Despite his much maligned debut on the big screen, Green Lantern remains one of the…
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26 May

Green Lantern Star Mark Strong Was Excited for Sequel

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There was a moment a full decade ago when DC Entertainment’s Green Lantern was expected by observers to become the big cosmic superhero hit of the summer in 2011. Meanwhile Marvel’s Thor was expected to stumble and slide off the Rainbow Bridge into the box office void. Of course we know what really happened: Thor, while a modest hit by modern Marvel standards, became a cornerstone of the MCU and Green Lantern—released on June 17, 2011—flamed out spectacularly, an inarguable bust with both critics and audiences alike. On the surface, the first live-action film based around the interstellar police force…
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19 May

John Diggle’s Green Lantern Journey Will Take an Unexpected Turn

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Arrow star David Ramsey is returning to the Arrowverse as John Diggle for a five-episode run across Legends of Tomorrow, Superman & Lois, Batwoman, and Supergirl this spring and summer. On top of guest-starring in five episodes that explore what John has been up to since his cliffhanger ending in the Arrow series finale, Ramsey also directed three episodes of this season’s Arrowverse lineup. While Ramsey makes his Superman & Lois directorial debut on May 25, you’ll first see John in the flesh on the June 13 episode of Batwoman. But will he be returning simply as John Diggle, co-head…
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11 May

The Green Knight Trailer Promises Return to Wonderful Weirdness of Arthurian Legend

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There will always be King Arthur movies, just like there will always be big screen riffs on Robin Hood. Characters with such mythic pedigree—and so readily available in the public domain—make this almost a given. Nevertheless, the King Arthur movies of the last few decades have left something to be desired, no? Whether it’s Antoine Fuqua and Disney’s questionable choice to produce a King Arthur movie without any of the actual magic or fantasy that made those legends enduring, or Guy Ritchie’s bizarre attempt to turn Arthurian archetypes into another boys-will-be-boys gangster movie—but now with medieval chainmail!—Hollywood has lately tried…
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30 Apr

Green Lantern: What Guy Gardner Means for the HBO Series

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When HBO Max announced its Green Lantern live-action television series, speculation ran rampant on how the DC galactic superhero mantle would be handled after Ryan Reynolds starred in the notorious 2011 film flop. However, that speculation has just narrowed, with the casting of headliner Finn Wittrock. The catch? Rather than playing famous hero Hal Jordan, Wittrock will instead star as machismo-addled antihero Guy Gardner, who will eventually be joined by other ring-wielders from the comic lore. It’s an intriguing development that will undoubtedly define the tone of the series. Who is Guy Gardner? While that might sound like an easy…
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25 Mar

New Green Lantern Series Expands Cosmic DC Universe

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Geoffrey Thorne is very detail-oriented. That helps explain the density of Green Lantern #1, his new book bringing the Green Lantern Corps into the Infinite Frontier era.  “I apologized to Dexter [Soy, one of his creative partners on Green Lantern] and to Tom Raney [his art partner on Future State: Green Lantern],”  Thorne tells us in an interview about the new run, “because the first things they had to draw that I wrote had a cast of thousands.” But it works: the new book launches with Lanterns from several corps accompanied by a veritable who’s who of DC’s cosmic stable…
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17 Feb

The Timeless Yet Underappreciated Allure of Eva Green

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It’s 2006. James Bond, as rendered in this particular iteration by franchise newcomer Daniel Craig, is on a train to Montenegro as he prepares for his upcoming mission: a poker tournament, where he will compete against the notorious private banker and criminal mastermind known as Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen). However, there’s one factor Bond hasn’t taken into account, and it’s the well-dressed woman in a business suit who elegantly sits herself across from him in the train car. But Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) isn’t merely the agent to the British Treasury that she asserts herself to be — over the…
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13 Feb

Future State: Green Lantern Blazes an Unreliable Trail for John Stewart’s Infinite Frontier Adventures

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This Green Lantern article contains spoilers. If you’ve finished Future State: Green Lantern #2, you know two things: we all weep for the passing of Hot G’Nortt, and that the ending was pretty dark. With Future State scribe Geoffrey Thorne keeping control over the Corps for DC’s upcoming Infinite Frontier era, we’re wondering exactly how his Future State work fits in with the upcoming ongoing series. It’s complicated, Thorne tells us in an interview.  “The manner in which it will occur in the comics may deviate at points from the exact scene you’re seeing there,” he says. “You’re going to…
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02 Dec

Will David Ramsey Finally Suit up as the Arrowverse Green Lantern?

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From the moment John Diggle pulled a glowing green box from the crashed meteor in Arrow‘s series finale, we knew that the end of the Arrowverse’s namesake show wouldn’t be the end of David Ramsey in that universe. But we had no idea just how important to its future he would be. According to Deadline, Ramsey is set to direct five episodes of Arrowverse shows, including episodes in the first season of Superman & Lois and the final season of Supergirl. But perhaps more intriguingly, he’s also slated to appear as John Diggle in five episodes across the entire spectrum…
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14 Nov

The Queen’s Gambit: The Real History Behind Beth’s Green Pills

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This article contains spoilers for The Queen’s Gambit. Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit dramatizes the unprecedented rise of (fictional) chess prodigy Elizabeth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) through the grandmaster ranks of chess champions in the 1950s and ‘60s. But as with other prestige television series, there is a dark side to this savant’s talents: While she possesses a natural affinity for complex and creative chess moves, Beth is also constrained by her growing drug addiction, which she believes allows her to prevail in so many harrowing chess matches.  Even before she touches a pawn for the first time, these little green tranquilizer…
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09 Oct

Green Lantern HBO Max Series Officially Ordered, Seth Grahame-Smith Set as Showrunner

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It’s official: Green Lantern is coming to HBO Max as a live-action television series, set to boost a growing lineup of DC Comics-adapting content on the recently-launched streaming service. The Green Lantern greenlight, as reported by Variety, cements the previously touted television project with an order for 10 one-hour-long episodes. The project last made headlines back in January when HBO Max hyped its presence on the developmental docket during the winter TCAs. The now-confirmed order for the series—set as an ensemble following the Green Lantern Corps—comes with the reveal of Seth Grahame-Smith as showrunner and writer, joined in the latter…
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04 Aug

Ryan Reynolds Releases a Green Lantern Cut of Justice League

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Green Lantern could have been the Iron Man of Warner Bros’ DC Extended Universe—at least for a timeline in which the underperforming 2011 comic book movie starring Ryan Reynolds hadn’t become a punchline to a generation of genre jokesters, most notably Reynolds himself. Yet, the film’s dubious place in history hasn’t stopped Reynolds from imagining how his hero could have joined the other DC A-listers onscreen in 2017’s Justice League. While another alternate version of the film, the online-petition-wrought “Snyder Cut” of Justice League, is set to become a reality on HBO Max, Reynolds has taken his own initiative of…
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30 Jul

Link Tank: Actresses Who Auditioned for Friends’ Rachel Green

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Jennifer Aniston played Rachel Green on Friends, but she wasn’t the studios’ first choice. Here are six actresses who auditioned for the role. “NBC’s Friends has been off the air since 2004, but that hasn’t stopped people from watching and rewatching the beloved sitcom more than 15 years later. And while it’s hard to imagine the show without the original six cast members in their iconic roles now, there were other actors up for those parts early on.” Read more at Mental Floss. Karl Urban was in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker as a stormtrooper, according to the actor…
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10 Jun

And We Go Green

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Professional drivers on the international Formula E circuit - like Formula One, but with eco-friendly electric cars - race for victory across 10 cities in this white-knuckle documentary.Release Date: Jun 04, 2020
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20 Apr

Green Hornet Reboot Coming From Universal

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Dust off your fedora and domino mask and make sure there’s gas in the Black Beauty, because the Green Hornet and Kato will once again return to the screen. Despite the fact that the masked vigilantes pre-date Batman and Robin by several years (having first leaped into action on The Green Hornet radio show in 1936), these legendary pop culture figures haven’t had much luck on the screen recently. That’s about to change with Amasia Entertainment partnering with Universal Pictures for The Green Hornet and Kato, the latest attempt to update the pair for a new generation. Michael Helfant and…
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14 Nov

Green Book

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When Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen), a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali), a world-class black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on The Green Book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger-as well as unexpected humanity and humor-they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey of a lifetime. [Universal Pictures]Rated: PG-13Release Date: Nov 16, 2018
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