Results tagged “Green Lantern” from Modern Mythology

Have you been reading "Blackest Night" or as some like to jokingly call it, "DC Zombies?"

Here's the skinny: The Green Lanterns, the space cops who are bastions of courage (willpower) with their GREEN power rings, represent only one aspect of the emotional color spectrum in the universe.

Dramatic circumstances (are there any other kind?) have set in motion the emergence of numerous Lanterns -- especially after the excellent "Sinestro Corps War" series a couple years ago.  Now there are Red Lanterns for rage, Blue Lanterns for hope,  Sinestro Corps ("Yellow Lanterns") for fear and the most dangerous of them all... Black Lanterns for death.

The BLACK LANTERNS have arrived and they are raising dead heroes and villains to fight against the Green Lantern Corps and destroy everything.  In only two issues we have seen the return of several recently deceased characters. And in the first issue some new ones have been recruited to the cause.

That means some characters you know are getting smoked.

Like most event series, this one runs through more than a few DC Comics titles. So far, I've limited myself to only the main "Blackest Night" series.  And it may be Green Lantern and there may be a cape or two in there, but this book is not for the little kids.

There are lots of guest stars in this book not seen anywhere in years. And the story comes equipped with the kind of big-ticket suspense I expect from writer Geoff Johns and artists Ivan Reis and Oclair Albert.


"Blackest Night" is playing at a comic store near you.  
 

You don't have to settle for being the mercenary with a mouth if you can also be the hotshot with the power ring.

Actor Ryan Reynolds (Blade: Trinity, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) is reported to have been cast as Hal Jordan in the upcoming movie adaptation of DC Comics' Green Lantern. 

And I don't mean to imply it's a better part for Reynolds by my use of the term "settle" in the first sentence there.  I'm only saying that Lantern is a movie role from a script by Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim that I have heard more than a few positive things about.

Meanwhile, the "Deadpool" project is still a story under construction as a spinoff based on the character Reynolds played in Wolverine -- the notorious merc with a mouth.

Heck, if this estimated $200 million flick comes through, Reynolds will have portrayed at least three characters based from comics in the movies. Two of those characters could have lucrative film franchises.


Via Variety and Comic Book Resources and photo by Getty Images

And for those who wanna know, the comic characters are Hannibal King, Deadpool and Green Lantern.


 

Major 'Superman' comic news (Sort of)

There has been quite a scuffle in the web-o-verse about the BIG SPOILER (don't click if you don't wanna know) in the NY Daily News involving Action Comics #870. Don't worry I'm not going to give anything away. You can click here, see the cover and draw your own conclusions.

I'm gassed about comics getting more press than ever, but my fellow newspaper folk have to remember a big comic book story is just like most pop entertainment. You must cover them a little more like that big movie that's hitting the screens on Friday or even that highly-anticipated novel that may or may not have the death of a major character.

For many people who follow these storylines for a year, they want to find out what happens when they read it.


That's the dude from 'Friday Night Lights' and Wolverine!

Taylor Kitsch of "Friday Night Lights" did an interview with Media Blvd. and briefly discussed his part in the upcoming "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" film as Gambit. The same film that will star Hugh Jackman and a host of others in a story that will focus on the origin of the popular clawed mutant with the unbreakable bones.

Or just call it "X-Men 4," like Kitsch did in his interview when he described the film. What would I call it? I would call it "Wolverine 3" because I thought "X-Men" and "X-men: United" were the first and second Wolverine films due to all the character focus and screen time for Jackman.

With Gambit tossing his explosive playing cards and Deadpool competing with Wolvie for bada*$ status there are all kinds of possibilities for some great action in this movie. I hope studio politics don't grind this flick into dust like the last X-movie.

I wish Taylor Kitsch all the luck as Gambit.


'Green Lantern' film may get Ryan Gosling?

I certainly don't know much about this, but you can get the skinny at Latino Review. Ryan Gosling is rumored to be in the running to play the Green Lantern. Which Lantern you ask? Review says the character in the script is Hal Jordan and he is about 27-years-old and perfect for Gosling who is 28.

The big hurdle will be introducing the character to a general movie audience considering he is not as familiar as the Batman or Spider-Man.

All they need do is follow the "Ironman" plan. This Marvel comics character was known vaguely to the non-comics reader by, I don't know, OSMOSIS or what have you. What appeared to have worked was not the origin story, all the movies have those. What worked was the front row seat to the creation of the armor. That suit was the coolest thing I had seen on a movie screen since "The Matrix."

So here's Green Lantern and, you know, he has a ring that not only allows him to fly, it can create anything the person can imagine. Since I'm on the Matrix kick consider the Green Lantern to be what Neo may have been if he had more imagination.

However, this should not discourage the Wachowski Bros. from directing this movie if it's offered to them. I hope you're listening guys.

Once again, read more here. And check out some Green Lantern required reading by correspondent Ryan Riley here.

By Ryan Riley

AOL/Time Warner, which owns both DC Comics and Warner Bros. Pictures, recently gave the green light for a live-action Green Lantern movie.

The movie will be directed by Greg Berlanti (Everwood, Brothers and Sisters) and penned by comic book writers Marc Guggenheim and Michael Green.

Even though the track record for DC-based superhero movies is far from perfect (Bryan Singer's Superman Returns and Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin spring to mind), the recent success of Christopher Nolan's Batman films give me hope that they might actually do justice to my all-time favorite comic book character on the big screen.

I've been a fan of Green Lantern ever since I was a little kid. My first exposure to the character was on the cartoon series "Challenge of the SuperFriends", where the SuperFriends (known as the Justice League in the comic books) would fight the Legion of Doom (a grouping of the top villains in each hero's rogue gallery, not the wrestling tag team from the 1980's).

Even back then, I could sense that he was unique even among a colorful gathering of superheroes. I wasn't all that thrilled when the TV network that was airing the show replaced it with the earlier SuperFriends series from 1973. Marvin, Wendy and Wonder-Dog would have annoyed me even had I not been exposed to "Challenge of the Superfriends" first, so that annoyance was heightened because I was no longer getting my Green Lantern fix.