Ryan Gosling is GREEN LANTERN?

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Posted by Matt Holmes. Last modified on October 9th, 2008 at 10:32am

Looks truly like Warner Bros. have given up the ghost on GREEN LANTERN being black, all the rumors suggest the movie will revolve around Hal Jordan rather than John Stewart.

Latino Review say their biggest WB source has given them the exclusive scoop that Ryan Gosling is being eyed for the role as their first choice.

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Gosling, 28 next month, is the perfect age for Greg Berlanti’s script where the character is said to be aged 27.

Academy Award nominated for his role in HALF NELSON two years ago, Gosling certainly has great acting chops and is closer to WB/DC’s casting of a great physical actor like Christian Bale than an unknown like Brandon Routh.

Hunt out LARS AND THE REAL GIRL and you will believe he is more than just a pretty face. This guy is good… though to play Lantern he will need to drop some of the brooding and notch up the charisma a few paces.

Last we heard this will be filming in the Spring, so hopefully we will get official casting within six weeks.

Categories: Movie News, Ryan-Gosling, Stuff, green-lantern, greg-berlanti

10 Comments »

None of this news gets me very excited, I always thought Green lantern was a bit of a boring character and would struggle with his own feature film especelly as Warners are going all “Dark” with there shit.
I’d still rather see a great Wonder Woman film that could be much more epic in scale if done right.
I’m pretty sure that they wont be featuring much of the Green lantern corps as it would probably cost a fortune to do that on film.

Comment by The Glove | October 9, 2008

Fantastic, I love Green Lantern and Ryan Gosling I think if they get him would be great casting.

Comment by Tino | October 9, 2008

I keep getting these two green superhero movies mixed up. “Green Lantern” and “Green Hornet”. ugh. anyways, neither movie sounds very appealing. i agree with the wonder woman movie.

Comment by ALK | October 9, 2008

Its Great Green Lantern Comics

Comment by Dominican Hotels | October 9, 2008

I think it’s great how an almost bankrupt company like Marvel can put out movies like it ain’t no joke. And here we have DC who practically has their own them parks in Six Flags can’t agree on Jack!

Comment by Madhatt3r | October 9, 2008

Warners are a buch of Arses!

Comment by The Glove | October 10, 2008

That’s “Bunch” by the way!

Comment by The Glove | October 10, 2008

I’m not thrilled about a Green Lantern movie. Nor do I share any excitement in seeing a movie revolve around The Flash.

Much like others before me, I would prefer to see a Wonder Woman movie. It would be great to have Joss Whedon attached to the project.

Comment by Mario | October 10, 2008

Joss Whedon had his chance and blew it big time mate!

Comment by The Glove | October 10, 2008

“I think it’s great how an almost bankrupt company like Marvel can put out movies like it ain’t no joke. And here we have DC who practically has their own them parks in Six Flags can’t agree on Jack!”

Hahaha.

Comment by Lencho | October 10, 2008