Oct 9 2008Ryan Gosling Could Be Green Lantern
Latino Review is reporting that Ryan Gosling, the man who beat your heart senseless with romance in The Notebook (I think, since I never saw The Notebook), is Warner's first choice to wear a green ring and pretend to be a superhero:
You know who the studio wants to wear Abin Sur’s ring and take up the mantle of The Green Lantern?From my trusted source within the WB, I’m hearing… RYAN GOSLING
Mind you, I don’t know if an offer has been made, and if WB is into it now with Ryan’s people, but once again Gosling is who I’m hearing the WB wants for Hal Jordan.
Well, I guess that shoots down my theory that they'd get a '90s Jim Carrey for the role and just remake The Mask with a green ring instead of a mask. But maybe they'll still get Jaime Kennedy for the sequel? We can always dream.
Reader Comments
1. James - October 9, 2008 11:45 AM
Judging from that picture, why don't they just get Zach Galifianakis to be the Green Lantern? Or a chipmunk?
2. VermillionSL - October 9, 2008 11:55 AM
lulz a chipmonk. like ch'p.
prolly wont break box office records that way unless its a cutesy CG movie where they all learn a moral in the end.
and gary shandling voices the turtle friend.
also, i hope this is a rumor, with gosling. he doesnt look the part.
3. G - October 9, 2008 12:06 PM
As much as I hate seeing actors play in more than one superhero movie, I nominate Hugh Jackman for Hal Jordan/Green Lantern.
Ryan Gosling is a fag. Brandon Routh showed us how believeable a fag is as a superhero.
4. Wayne - October 9, 2008 12:19 PM
I'm gonna go against the grain here and say he'd probably do a pretty decent job. Say what you will, dude can act. Check out Half Nelson. DRUGS.
5. Elmo - October 9, 2008 2:09 PM
All I know about the green lantern was when I watched the Justice Leauge marathon on tv when I had the stomach flu....... and since I knew nothing about all that stuff, I saw the lantern for the very first time as a big, strong black guy
then I found out that the first one was a white guy, but still, Ryan Gosling is a wimp!! is he supposed to be, for the comic book version??
6. Carter - October 9, 2008 3:38 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abin_Sur
Abin Sur is the one who gives the ring to the REAL "first" Green Lantern, Hal Jordan. He'll be a minor role, and likely unrecognizable.
7. Aldo - October 9, 2008 3:44 PM
To Carter:
You know who the studio wants to wear Abin Sur’s ring and take up the mantle of The Green Lantern?
Emphasis on "take up the mantle"... they say Ryan Gosling would be Hal Jordan, who takes up the mantle of The Green Lantern... not Abin Sur...
anyways...i don't like Ryan as Hal... he's a good actor though
8. whistle - October 9, 2008 3:44 PM
I thought that was Seth Rogan's. :)
9. TetraShiva - October 9, 2008 5:14 PM
@G
Not to rain on your homophobia, but you do know that Hugh Jackman had a long stint on Broadway playing a dancing gay man AFTER he played Wolverine, right?
Technically, Hugh Jackman is more gay.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. (Bonus points if you can name the quote).
10. Phil.Morin1@gmail.com - October 9, 2008 8:27 PM
brilliant casting!! it would be so good
hope this happens, and I've been a GL fan for years
11. Randy Landers - October 9, 2008 11:37 PM
My favorite GL is John Stewart, but I guess having an African American GL would just not sit well with the suits who make these sort of decisions. :(
12. Squints McGee - October 10, 2008 2:58 AM
@whistle Seth Rogan is playing The Green HORNET
and I would love to see Ryan Gosling in this, he is an impeccable actor!