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'Green Lantern' Panel Report: Comic-Con Welcomes Ryan Reynolds And The Green Lantern Corp!
Posted 19 hrs ago by Rick Marshall in DC Comics, News


Warner Bros. brought the whole "Green Lantern" crew to Comic-Con this year, and a crowded hall got their first look at Ryan Reynolds in action as DC's ring-wielding hero Hal Jordan. Here's a moment-by-moment report of what happened:

DC Entertainment's Chief Creative Officer and celebrated "Green Lantern" comic writer Geoff Johns was the first panelist to take the stage. Acknowledging that this is the "first 'Green Lantern' movie panel in history," he introduced the first footage from the much-anticipated film.

The footage kicked off with a pulsing Green Lantern symbol against a black background, explaining that the person hearing it has been chosen to wield great power "if you will it..."

Along with some shots of Reynolds in action both on the ground and in the sky as Hal Jordan (including a scene where he's surprised to suddenly fly into the air), we also get a good look at Peter Sarsgaard as the deformed Hector Hammond, screaming at the camera.

The first non-human Green Lantern we get to see? Tomar-Re! (I totally thought it would be Kilowog.)

The footage also offered the first look at one of Green Lantern's constructs, as Hal Jordan smacks away a group of attackers using... a big, green fist! The fist definitely emanates from the ring, and you can see the green energy trail from the fist to the ring as Jordan swings his arm at his enemies.

The footage ends without a single shot of Reynolds in his Green Lantern uniform, however — something worth noting, given the response to the first picture of the costume released last week.

When the lights came up the rest of the panel was introduced:

Screenwriter and producer Greg Berlanti, producer Donald De Line, director Martin Campbell, and actors Peter Sarsgaard (Hector Hammond), Mark Strong (Sinestro), Blake Lively (Carol Ferris), and Ryan Reynolds (Hal Jordan).

Here's how the rest of the event unfolded:

12:01
Peter Sarsgaard said playing Hector Hammond was all about the "large head," and joked about it a bit before saying that playing in a comic book movie "really opens up all sorts of things you never expected to be doing."

12:03
On the subject of Sinestro and his eventual turn to evil, Mark Strong said, "You take what you're given. [Sinestro's] job is to be Hal's mentor and put him through his paces. He sort of earns his grudging respect by the end of the movie. Whatever happens later, that happens later."

12:04
Martin Campbell: "The tone is light. It has a lot of humor, but I think the relationships between all the characters are very real. We try to keep the action very real. ... It's my first superhero movie — unless you count James Bond."

12:05
On the subject of the controversial first image of the costume, Martin Campbell called it a "work in progress."

"You've obviously all seen the costume on the cover of EW, and it's always a work in progress," he said. "We lost the white gloves, we thought it looked far cooler and far more interesting. ... It's hard to see in the picture itself, but there are certain lines [and] the costume evolves from the ring. It's sort of a skin on Green Lantern, not a costume. All the lines are lines of musculature that our designer came up with."

12:06
Donald De Line on taking the movie into space: "The opportunity is a great one. We're going to take the audience to the center of the universe to the planet Oa and we're going to see [hundreds of] Green Lanterns."

He also added a few more Green Lanternss to the list of those making an appearance in the film, including Kilowog, Tomar-Re, Salaak, Boodikka, Bzzt (!), and Green Man. ("A lot of the film will be made digitally in that regard.")

12:09
Geoff Johns on taking a meeting about a "Green Lantern" movie a decade ago: "One of the executives said, 'Can we do the movie without the ring?' and I thought 'A Green Lantern movie is never going to happen.' ... 10 years later, to see it evolve... it's a dream come true."

12:10
Ryan Reynolds on his wife, Scarlett Johansson, playing a Marvel character: "We've had some strongly worded dinners. ... We've probably got a lot more comic books lying around than your average married couple ... but maybe not in this room."

12:11
Blake Lively said playing Carol Ferris is exciting because "often the man is saving the woman and [Carol] gets to save Hal a few times. ... They're competitors."

She also hinted at her character's dark evolution (to Star Sapphire), too: "To be able to be a strong woman who becomes a villain later — I can't wait to kick his butt."

12:12
Peter Sarsgaard on Hector Hammond: "I was very interested in his origin story in the movie. ... What he becomes is an expression of what he had inside of him all along. I remember telling Martin that [Hector] seemed like the kind of kid who licked the battery or went on the roof during a thunderstorm with a hanger, just to find out what happened."

And with that, the Q&A session began. Here are some of the highlights:

Asked which characters the film will focus on, a few of the panelists chimed in to indicate that Kilowog would be the drill instructor, Sinestro would be the mentor and Tomar-Re would be Jordan's spiritual guide. Green Man and Stel would also factor prominently into the film.

Will there be an integrated DC universe in films? "A lot of dc projects coming up but I can't talk about them here," said Johns.

Will Sinestro kick ass? "He doesn't actually believe a human can be a member of the Corps. So I will do my best to kick ass," said Strong.

How did Reynolds land the role? "I screentested a couple of times, and I'm glad I did. I want to be as right for this character as they do. I want to make sure it's the right fit."

Martin Campbell discussed the role of Jordan's father, Martin: "At the beginning of the movie, it's well known that Martin Jordan dies in a plane crash. Hal is there when this happens and sees the event take place, and it affects him for the rest of his life. ... It plays into his fear, which of course he has to overcome at the end of the movie when he becomes a fully fledged Green Lantern."

Will there be a Justice League movie? "There's always a possibility for everything, but the scope and success of 'Green Lantern' will really lead the charge for everything DC does," said Johns.

One of the most exciting moments of the panel (other than the footage, of course), occurred when a young fan asked Reynolds what it was like to recite the Green Lantern oath (something he refused to do for us on many occasions).

"It's a little like this," said Reynolds, who went on to recite the oath to a hall that fell dead silent when he began with the words, "In brightest day, in blackest night..."

After reciting the oath, he called up the fan to pick up a signed comic, and held up his fist to the camera — offering a great look at the Green Lantern ring on his finger.

According to Reynolds, Parallax will indeed feature in the film: "Parallax is in it. I better be allowed to say that... He's a physical manifestation of fear," he said.

Will Mogo make an appearance? "There's a lot of Green Lantern in the film," said Johns.

Reynolds went on to add that every Green Lantern has a distinct style of flight that will feature in the film, and it wasn't all CGI-created: "Each Green Lantern has a distinct fingerprint of how they're going to fly."

The actor then went on say he's giving away the Green Lantern ring he's been wearing for the last six months, and announced that whoever has a piece of paper taped to his/her chair would receive the ring. The winner was located, and Reynolds joked, "This means we're married, but in space."

And that was the "Green Lantern" panel!

Keep it locked to Splash Page throughout the show for all your Comic-Con 2010 news, interviews, and exclusives. You can also follow your friendly neighborhood editor Rick Marshall and the rest of the Splash Page team on Twitter!

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Meanwhile, I've had an epiphany about where we're going next.

There's going to be a lot going on, I think. Fanservice for each of you, of a sort.
 
This song really captures the atmosphere of the place Doc's team and Giles have landed, to the extent that it influenced the title of the "episode."

(I love this band.)

30 Seconds to Mars - "Echelon"

Look at the red red changes in the sky
Look at the separation in the border line
But don't look at everything here inside
And be afraid, afraid to speak your mind

It took a moment before I lost myself in here
It took a moment and I could not be found?
Again and again and again and again I see your face in everything
It took a moment the moment it could not be found?

What's with the fascination with the Echelon
What's with the constant questions that you have this time
What's with this circumstancial consequence
Find oversight before this night will ever rise again
It's all you've got inside your head, better get up and leave instead

It took a moment before I lost myself in here
It took a moment and I could not be found?
Again and again and again and again I see your face in everything
It took a moment the moment it could not be found?

To find ourselves lost here within we need the reasons why
So we take this bridge with the other's that will thrive in the great divide

Look at the red red changes in the sky

Again and again and again and again I see your face in everything
Again and again and again and again I see your face in everything

It took a moment before I lost myself in here
It took a moment and I could not be found?
Again and again and again and again I see your face in everything
It took a moment the moment it could not be found?​
 
Ten misses Rose...

Shinedown - "The Crow & The Butterfly"

I painted your room at midnight,
So I'd know yesterday was over.
I put all your books on the top shelf,
Even the one with the four-leaf clover.
Man I'm getting older.

I took all your pictures off the wall,
And wrapped them in a newspaper blanket.
I haven't slept in what seems like a century.
And now I can barely breathe.

Just like a crow chasing the butterfly,
Dandelions lost in the summer sky.
When you and I were gettin' high as outer space,
I never thought you'd slip away.
I guess I was just a little too late.

Your words still serenade me,
Your lullabies, won't let me sleep.
I've never heard such a haunting melody,
Oh it's killing me.
You know I can barely breathe.

Just like a crow chasing the butterfly,
Dandelions lost in the summer sky.
When you and I were gettin' high as outer space,
I never thought you'd slip away.
I guess I was just a little too late,
I was just a little too late.

Just like a crow chasing the butterfly,
Dandelions lost in the summer sky.
When you and I were gettin' high as outer space,
I never thought you'd slip away.

Like a crow chasing the butterfly,
Dandelions lost in the summer sky.
When you and I were gettin' high as outer space,
I never thought you would slip away.
I guess I was just little too late, (yeah, yeah)
I was just a little too late.
I was just a little too, little too late.
I guess I was just little too late.​

...but love causes pain.

"Savior" - Rise Against

It kills me not to know this but I've all but just forgotten
What the color of her eyes were and her scars or how she got them
As the telling signs of age rain down a single tear is dropping
Through the valleys of an aging face that this world has forgotten
There is no reconciliation that will put me in my place
And there is no time like the present to drink these draining seconds
But seldom do these words ring true when I'm constantly failing you
Like walls that we just can't break through until we disappear

So tell me now
If this ain't love then how do we get out?
Because I don't know
That's when she said I don't hate you boy
I just want to save you while there's still something left to save
That's when I told her I love you girl
But I'm not the answer for the questions that you still have

But the day pressed on like crushing weights
For no man does it ever wait
Like memories of dying days
That deafen us like hurricanes
Bathed in flames we held the brand
Uncurled the fingers in your hand
Pressed into the flesh like sand
Now do you understand?

So tell me now
If this ain't love then how do we get out?
Because I don't know
That's when she said I don't hate you boy
I just want to save you while there's still something left to save
That's when I told her I love you girl
But I'm not the answer for the questions that you still have

1000 miles away
There's nothing left to say
But so much left that I don't know
We never had a choice
This world is too much noise
It takes me under
It takes me under once again
I don't hate you
I don't hate you

So tell me now
If this ain't love then how do we get out?
Because I don't know
That's when she said I don't hate you boy
I just want to save you while there's still something left to save
That's when I told her I love you girl
But I'm not the answer for the questions that you still have

I don't hate you
I don't hate you, no​
 
As much as I loved Rose. I think Amy is actually gainning ground on her and is easily my second favorite. with Donna coming in a close third.
 
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