From Newsarama Live Session With Green Lantern:
- They just set up Green Lantern and Carol Ferris characters posters on the stage, which got big applause. Yay for posters!
- Green Lantern movie logo just came on the screens. Even more applause!
- Folks are carrying lots of brown boxes of stuff to the back of the room. Is there a giveaway at the end of the panel? (Probably).
- Green Lantern (comic book) writer and DC Entertainment chief creative officer Geoff Johns just took the stage.
-"It's not a trailer, the trailer will be out May 6 with Thor," Johns says of
the footage about to be shown. He adds that it's not completely finished yet.
- White text on black - "Sector 2814."
- We've got Abin Sur and Sinestro.
- Close-up on Abin Sur's ring.
- Abin Sur gets critically attacked, and is now rocketing off in an escape pod (towards Earth, y'know).
- We'll catch up on that in a second. Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds just joined the panel.
- So, the clip: we see the critical moment of Hal Jordan receiving his ring from a dying Abin Sur, Hal Jordan at home with his power battery trying to figure out the Green Lantern oath ("I, Hal Jordan, solemnly swear, to pledge allegiance"), finally figuring it out and his eyes turning green in the process, Hal Jordan meeting Tomar Re on Oa, and Sinestro addressing the assembled Green Lantern corps concerning the threat of Parallax.
- Blake Lively said she insisted on her hair being brown for Carol Ferris.
- Lively said a crewmember at Gossip Girl that was a big comic book fan told her that she had to be a brunette as Carol Ferris "for her own security."
- Reynolds says that since so much of the movie was shot on a soundstage in Louisiana, it's very cool to see finished footage like the one that was just shown.
- Why out of all the characters did you choose Green Lantern," Johns asked Reynolds. A fan yelled, "to show off that six-pack!"
- Does Reynolds read the comic, a fan asks? "I've recently read one I really liked," Reynolds said, turning to Johns.
- Fan calls Ryan Reynolds "Mr. Hottie."
- "What makes Green Lantern stand out compared to the other superhero movies that are out there?"
- Reynolds says he grew up as a "Star Wars kid," and it was an "amazing pursuit" to be a part of Green Lantern.
- Audience member asks Reynolds for an encore of the Green Lantern oath, which he recited at Comic-Con last year in San Diego.
- The whole crowd is now doing it in unison.
- Fan says Reynolds played a villain in X-Men: Origins. "Deadpool is not a villain, he's an asshole," Reynolds clarifies.
- Johns asked Reynolds who would win in a fight, Green Lantern or Deadpool. "I'm going to go with Green Lantern at this point in time," Reynolds answered. Some boos from the crowd. "Oh, come on," Reynolds replied.
- Lively says they were lucky to have Johns on set often, calling him "the current god of Green Lantern."
- Reynolds says he liked the script because it's a true origin story, not one that starts in the "third act" of an origin.
- Reynolds continues saying he liked how Hal Jordan starts off cocky, but then learns "humility, and real purpose."
- Reynolds tells a fan he doesn't want to get into a future Deadpool feature film, saying there are too many unknowns, but he enjoyed playing the character, would have done some things differently, and if they do a movie, they'll do it the right way — "hard R."
- Reynolds says that though the shooting only took six months, it "felt like a hundred years."
- Next person up tells Reynolds he's been a big fan since "Two Guys and a Girl." (No love for "Fifteen"?)
- That fan asks Reynolds if he had any opportunity to improv on set. Reynolds said that you want to be sure that you stay true to the character of Green Lantern - "he has wit, but he's not a comedian."
- Lively said that if she ever plays Star Sapphire on film, she'd want the costume to have a little more material. Some fans don't like that notion.
- Any other comic book characters that Reynolds would like to play? "I think I've reached my quota," Reynolds said. "I think I will be systematically murdered if I play any more."
- Did Reynolds like the CGI costume? "I argued for just straight-up fishnets," Reynolds said, and then continued that in the "mythology of the film," the suit is made from "pure energy."
- "You don't want to be in a motion capture suit in August in Louisiana," Reynolds added.
- Justice League movie? "I don't know," Reynolds said. "It's not something anybody's talked to me about."
- Were there any physical Green Lantern suits used on set? "They're all CGI," Johns answered. "I saw a guy in one earlier," Reynolds added.
- Sequel? "I hope so," Reynolds says.
- Who should play the Flash? Johns jokingly suggests Reynolds plays the Flash, and they do a Green Lantern/Flash movie with him in both rules.
- Reynolds suggests Bradley Cooper.
- Blake Lively said even though Green Lantern took up what would have been her break from Gossip Girl, playing a different character on such a different project was "rejuvenating."
- "Chemistry is genuinely one of the few things in filmmaking you can't invent or create," Reynolds said, of the dynamic between him and Lively.
- Reynolds says he moved to Los Angeles with no intention of becoming an actor, and he had a background in improv comedy.
- "The thing is, you just got to do it," Reynolds advised a young fan with an interest in show business.
- Final question: "Do you like comedic movies or things like Green Lantern more?"
- "I like it all," Reynolds answers.
-"I was never known for just one thing," Reynolds said.
That seems to be it. It's a lot but cool stuff nonetheless. Be on the lookout for possible footage tomorrow!