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Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Green Lantern Pushed Back, Debate Ensues

Something about online film journalists has everyone doing one of three things: 1) Taking wild guesses as to who will land the Green Lantern part, 2) sending passive aggressive tweets about how possible Green Lantern casting is non-news, 3) ignoring it entirely and laughing.

I’m 2 parts 3 with a single part 1 in the sense that less than a handful of posts down is the rumor that Bradley Cooper will be dawning the green tights. And I also posted that story that Latino Review was totally wrong about placing Chris Pine at the top of the list for the Hal Jordan/Green Lantern role. Now, I’m going to link you LIKE THIS to another Latino Review report. This time they are making another semi-educated guess in favor of a muscular 25-year old named Shawn Roberts who worked on Latern-director Martin Campbell on something called “Edge of Darkness.”

I’m also laughing, because whomever ends up getting the part will make all these back and forth blog posts obsolete.

Also on the Green Lantern front, it got pushed back to 2011. The original date had it coming out on December 17th 2010, but now Warners is listing it as June 17th, 2011. The Christmas-to-summer transition sounds like a mix of two things. One, the crew now gets some time to actually film the movie instead of rushing it through. Two, Warners is pushing it to go against Pixar and Cars 2. That’s some confidence to show in a superhero film.

Then again, Warners has always been weird about it’s big films, lest we forget how The Dark Knight doing so well pushed Harry Potter to this July for no other reason than this year needed more Warner-friendly reciepts.