Has the new Captain Kirk, Californian born actor Chris Pine already made plans to avoid being pigeon holed in one iconic role like William Shatner’s whole career?
Is Chris Pine desperate to show, kinda like what Christian Bale is doing right now that playing one icon, shouldn’t automatically put you out of the running for another?
IESB carry word from sources within Warner Bros. that Pine is being lined up to play Hal Jordan when GREEN LANTERN begins filming this September, under the director of Martin Campbell (CASINO ROYALE, THE MASK OF ZORRO).
Pine, 28 years old, fits perfectly into the “late 20’s” category we have been hearing so much about from WB and although maybe slightly smaller built than in the comics, his face is a good match for LANTERN.
But do we really know he can act yet? Sure he was fun playing one of the Tremor Brothers in SMOKIN’ ACES and yeah, so here’s done a few rom-com’s here and there… but so what?
What counts will be what is on the screen in May when STAR TREK opens worldwide. Let’s allow him to convince us he can lead the Enterprise before anyone seriously thinks about offering him the power ring.
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Christian Bale he is not but, I’m sure he is up to the task if given the opportunity. Chris Pine sounds like an actor with a good head on his shoulders. The question that should be ask is he really the right fit to portray Green Lantern?…hmmm
I thought that he was pretty good in Smokin’ Aces. (But he didn’t make it a good movie…)
And I think that people need to Stop bringing up ‘Christian Bale’ and ‘TDK’ for every fucking headline. That was a movie and he’s an actor. It’s not a super masterpiece or some sort of standard.
@ ShatteredH: …I admit I don’t know what it takes to make any movie a “super masterpiece”, but there is a legitimate consensus that THE DARK KNIGHT is at the least a superhero masterpiece, or just a masterpiece, if not a “super masterpiece”. Since TDK stands alone as a rendering of its archetype in achieving this level of acclaim, I would say it IS a standard for any movie in that mold to follow.
Gezz I hope this doesn’t happen. I like Pine but GL is is NOT.
Rather than mastubating over what they think is “more marketable” they oughta go with what works. Hal Jordan is supposed to be an older hero, not a younger one. I’d go with somebody in their 40’s or so, like a Richard Burgi or my pick Tim Daly.
Ron Perlman was already over 50 when Guillermo Del Toro cast him as Hellboy. Viggo Mortgensen was hardly a 20-something when he became Aragorn.
Some studios are SO “stoopid.”