Published by Jeff Leins: Peter Sarsgaard May Play ‘Green Lantern’ Villain
Peter Sarsgaard is in negotiations to play the villain in the Warner Bros/DC Comics movie Green Lantern. Ryan Reynolds stars as Hal Jordan/Green Lantern, Blake Lively is set to play the love interest Carol Ferris, and Martin Campbell is directing.
According to the Heat Vision Blog, Sarsgaard would play Hector Hammond, a pathologist and the disappointing son of a senator. Hammond is called upon to perform the autopsy of Abin Sur, the Green Lantern who perishes on Earth and passes his intergalactic policeman powers to Hal Jordan (Reynolds).
In the process of the procedure, Hammond is exposed to a radioactive substance from the beast Legion and infused with psychic and telekinetic powers from an exponentially increasing mutant intellect.
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by Russ Fischer at Slash Film: Stephen Norrington to Direct WWII Supernatural Action Film The Lost Patrol
Stephen Norrington has been developing his new take on The Crow, but before he gets to that it seems like he’ll first do another project that pushes all his ‘geek buttons.’ The film to break him out of director jail, where he’s been chained to a wall since 2003’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, will be The Lost Patrol for Legendary Pictures, the production company behind massive comic book and fantasy films like Watchmen, The Dark Knight and Clash of the Titans.
Norrington will rewrite the script, which was originally a spec by Andrew Hilton, and rewritten by Matt Cirulnick. THR calls the film a “supernatural action thriller set against the backdrop of Wolrd War II.” Norrington is quoted as saying the film is packed with “hardware, heroes, grime, insane monsters.” Between the title and his quote, the film sounds something like a combination of a ‘men on a mission’ movie, a Hellboy spinoff, and an Edgar Rice Burroughs story.
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via John Gholson at SciFi Squad: Did ‘The Book of Eli’ Borrow a Page from ‘Fallout 3’?
“It looks like a Fallout movie.”
That’s what a friend of mine said the first time he saw the trailer for The Book of Eli. I had yet to play the game when the trailer first debuted, but I’ve since picked up the Game of the Year edition of Fallout 3 for PS3. My friend was right, and I don’t think he’s the only person that noticed.
The trailers reveal Washington (as the titular Eli) trying to cross a burned-out wasteland in relative peace, and running afoul of folks that aren’t nearly as accommodating of others as he is. Violence ensues. I know Fallout didn’t invent the post-apoc sci-fi subgenre, but the visual resemblance is certainly there. If the movie is one-tenth as absorbing as the game is, then sign me the hell up.
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by Meredith Woerner at io9: Rainn Wilson’s Super Gets A Bona Fide Superhero: Nathan Fillion!
Slither director James Gunn has just added some massive geek-cred to his superhero film, Super. Nathan “Captain Hammer” Fillion, Bubbles from The Wire and many more beloved genre actors have joined Kevin Bacon and Rainn Wilson’s dark comedy.
Super announced that James Gunn, who wrote and is directing this dark superhero comedy, has enlisted a whole slew of amazing cast members from some of our favorite projects. Nathan Fillion, Linda Cardellini (Freaks And Geeks), Gregg Henry (Slither), Michael Rooker (Slither), Sean Gunn (Brother and Gilmore Girls regular), Lloyd Kaufman, Andre Royo (Bubs from The Wire) and Steve Agee (The Sarah Silverman Show) are all joining the cast. This news completely raises the bar for this dark comedy. Let’s not forget they’re already joining Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Liv Tyler and Kevin Bacon.
Super is centered around Rainn Wilson who, according to the synopsis, “plays an average guy who takes on the pseudo-superhero alter ego of the Crimson Bolt, after watching his wife (Tyler) fall under the spell of a charming drug dealer. Lacking super powers, he compensates by swinging a trusty wrench.”
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I hadn’t heard of Super before, but it sounds really funny! As for Book of Eli and Fallout, I think there’s only so much you can do with post-apocalyptic Earth.
What do you think of Peter Sarsgaard as Hector Hammond?
