Video: Ryan Renolds Talks Green Lantern and Deadpool

hmm yes, Betty is brilliant.

AWSOME...I WONDER WHAT THE COSTUMES WILL LOOK LIKE...RYAN REYNOLD WILL BE SEVERELY FUNNY ON SNL

lol. Ryan is awesome but still not convinced for GL

I think Ryan Renolds is going to be great for GL. I mean the casting directors picked him so he can't be that bad.

Reynolds certainly would not have been my first choice for H. Jordan. But I am becoming more and more convinced that Reynold's performance will carry a role like H. Jordan. Personally, I think he was perfect for Deadpool. And ok for Jordan. But he is the best choice (IMO) for any of the DC characters. There was a huge call for him to be Wally West. But I think he's too old at this point for West's origin story. The twisted sarcasm will suit Hal fine. There's a funny line in Barry Allen's thought bubbles when he was reflecting on when he first met Hal Jordan(Flash Rebirth Issue 1):
"I didn't like Hal Jordan when we first met. He was a little too reckless. He stared at Wonder Woman a little too long. And he laughed under his breath like a maniac whenever the League was outnumbered. It wasn't until I heard him use the word "perp" that I figured out he was cop. That changed everything."
That was a good read.

I agree Phinehas. Reynolds was not my choice for Hal, hell, I never even thought of him as GL, but he's a great actor, can do both serious and comedy styles, and he's got Martin Campbell directing him. I count those as wins :)

I'm newer to the board, but was reading for a long time and saw/have scene all the hate for Reynolds. I have always taken the stance Poni suggested - never ever hated or even disliked him for Green Lantern (or any role - he's very satisfactory and has mad talent as an actor), but just thought Cooper would've been ideal. And I still, and always will think Reynolds was uncannily ideal for Wally West and is for Deadpool. Just feel a slight dissapointment that we'll never get to see him as The Flash.

And as far as the casting director choosing him, his career is on fire and he's becoming highly bankable - that's probably the biggest reason for the choice.

I just saw him on SNL, and Christ, after last week with Meegen, it was a hell of a cut above. He's a fantastic actor. So I'm sure he'll do a plenty satisfactory job with GL, but I will always feel... just... man what could've been? you know. Sure do hope he pulls through with Deadpool, because even if it is a bit watered down, it will still surely be a sight to behold.

I basically just totally agree with you guys, but still think he looks young enough to have pulled off Wally West origin. Could have done slight age regression for the first part of the film. He's pretty worked too - if he lost a little of that muscle, he'd look younger, but then to put it all back on would take a while so that'd probably be bad.

I do agree that Ryan was certainly ideal for Wally.

However, and this is not directed at anyone here, but rather a general statement to those who hated on Reynolds for "selling out" and that "he promised he would be Flash", but:

News FLASH (pun intended), the Flash movie was in limbo when GL was rolling around Reynolds' door, and it still is in limbo. I doubt anyone would have turned GL down, if they were in Reynolds' situation.

True, MPP. The word fan is a derivant of fanatic.

I just don't understand why The Flash is like considered to be an almost b-list character, and the movie's been on the backburner for so long. I'm a child of the 80s and he's like a household word to me. Was one of the first comic book characters I'd ever heard of. As far as movie potential goes, he doesn't really have the psychological depth as Batman, nor the mind blowing array of powers of the invincible Superman, nor the potential for all out Star Wars/Trek potential of GL - that's part of it. But some pretty clever and entertaining things can be done, and Wally West's personality and character is half the potential. I find myself thinking maybe part of why Hollywood hasn't been incredibly interested is because Superman's powers blow his away, and we've already basically seen a short version of The Flash in Superman I, when he's running along with the train. I dunno, it's perplexing to me.

I could raise you guys one - I believe the word Poni's looking for is "psychofant" =P If Reynolds were a true Flash psychofant, that's what he'd have done for sure. I certainly get the tongue in cheekedness of what Poni's saying there, but I mean there have been instances of that in Hollywood of actors going nearly to those great lengths to portray a certain role, and directors, and producers going to those nearly insane lengths to get a movie made a certain way. But alas, I'm afraid those days are pretty much over with. Now Reynold's is doing movies with Sandra Bullock, etc. I mean come on - jackpot! (not that I love Bullock, but she's pretty high up on the a list).

Jeez I even misspelled it, usually am good at that - I must've read that word ten thousand times, and written it a thousand. See I am pedantic lol - nah it's all in good self deprecating fun man. Christ my browser's doing weird stuff - double posting, deleting posts, etc. Maybe it's just me. Gonna have to cut this one short, and get some shuteye. You guys have a good night, or should I say morning.

@ Phinehas - Exactly if this can some how help to make a WW or Flash movie or both ... then lets just support it

Phin: "If this is the gateway drug for Flash and WW, I'm ready to go behind the portables to light up!"

***sigh*** my hero! totally agree with you.

Ryan as gl...eh... ok... but not for flash. I'd like Dane Cook for Flash but maybe is too old for him?

good for him. they should of let him do the flash years ago.

anyone who doesn't like ryan better get used to his face.