Ryan Reynolds Kicks Off Green Lantern Panel
Warner Bros kicked off the movie side of Comic Con in a big way with a first look at its latest DC Comics superhero tentpole, “Green Lantern.”
Glimpse is a more apt description as the movie is still in production in Louisiana and the footage was teasingly half-second images of Ryan Reynolds with the alien power ring, a yellow alien named Tomaray,Reynolds willing a giant fist into existence and plowing some thugs, an alien world, among others.
The crowd liked what it saw, even as the movie faces microscopic scrutiny from the fan community, who recently vocally debated the merits of Ryan Reynolds in costume on a recent Entertainment Weekly cover.
Without directly referencing the issue, director Martin Campbell talked about the costume, stressing several time it is a work in progress. “It will eventually look incredibly cool.”
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Warners made a point of making “Green Lantern,” and the “Harry Potter” panel which followed it, interactive, filling it with giveaway prizes. Ryan Reynolds, on stage with Blake Lively, Mark Strong, Peter Sarsgaard, producer Donald DeLine, director Martin Campbell, writer-producer Greg Berlanti and DC COO Geoff Johns, gave an autographed copy of a comic to a young fan and at the end gave away his power ring.
Reynolds, in fact, was the driving force behind the panel’s success. He won points when he recited the Green Lantern oath, a comic staple that will be in the movie. And he also revealed that a villain named Parallax is in the movie, something he realized he may not have been authorized to do.
Many fans wondered whether their favorite alien would be in the movie but many pressed the panelists if this movie was the beginning of Warners building a cohesive DC Universe on screen, in a same fashion that Marvel Studios has been doing.
Johns tried to avoid answering those types of questions but finally allowed “ ’Green Lantern’ is the success that will lead the charge for everything DC does.”
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