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Casino Royale's Martin Campbell to Direct the Green Lantern Movie!
by Alex Billington
February 5, 2009
Green Lantern fans rejoice, for today is your day! Director Martin Campbell is in negotiations to helm the Green Lantern movie that Warner Brothers is developing based on the popular DC Comics superhero. This is great news because Campbell is the guy behind not only GoldenEye, but also Casino Royale, The Mask of Zorro, and Vertical Limit. Although he's only stood out with those two Bond movies, I've got a good feeling he's going to take the highly praised script for this, written by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, and Michael Green, and turn it into something pretty awesome. I was excited before, but now I can't wait!
Campbell is replacing "Everwood" director Greg Berlanti, who was originally attached to this since the very start, but has now moved on to direct This Is Where I Leave You. Berlanti has only ever directed one small feature film before and I'm sure Warner Brothers was starting to get cold feet once they had greenlit this project and started hearing positive feedback and early fan buzz on the script (like we wrote). If Warner Brothers is on the same track, and if what we were told by producer Donald De Line in September hasn't changed, this Green Lantern movie will shoot starting in the next few months. Are you excited yet?
27 Comments
1
Wow that's awesome!!! I wonder who they will cast a GL..any thoughts?? I would possibly cast myself Luke Banham lol (check me out on imdb) haha no seriously I would probably try to cast someone around the mid to late 20's age....or perhaps David Hasselfhof for the fun of it 🙂
Lukeyb on Feb 5, 2009
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I wonder if he is afraid of sequels....
Alex on Feb 5, 2009
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Yes, this is great news, thank you so much for the news, has put me in a good mood for the rest of the day.
Jamie on Feb 5, 2009
4
As long as DC gets out a non-Batman, non-Superman movie, I'm excited. Besides, I like GL. Maybe we'll see this one next year.
NadaNuff on Feb 5, 2009
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Martin Campbel is a secure choice for a hollywoodstudio! It's always win-win situation for both sides! Casino royale was realy awesome!
avi on Feb 5, 2009
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goldeneye my fucking favorite bond film,casino royale loved when bond was getting tortured (getting whacked in the bollocks while sitting in the chair brutal.)the mask of zorro wasn't bad either,haven't watched vertical limit.very excited now knocking things over with my massive stiffy.hope it's a trilogy have the red lanterns show up at some point, cameo's of other dc heroes,now get flash,wonder woman,aqua-man (maybe) & justice league films made,then we can have a summer box office clash dc vs marvel,justice league vs the avengers who would own the summer(i think it would be pretty much even maybe few thousand dollars either way.)
zetsu on Feb 5, 2009
7
Wasn't Ryan Gosling mentioned for the role of Green Lantern?
Mark Davis on Feb 5, 2009
8
PLEASE cast Matthew Settle as Hal Jordan. Settle played Lt. Spiers on Band of Brothers and is currently on Gossip Girls. He looks EXACTLY like Hal Jordan.
ballyhoo on Feb 5, 2009
9
Really good news. Martin Campbell is great.
Farris on Feb 5, 2009
10
This is great news! Thanks for posting. Martin Campbell is going to be great.
katC on Feb 5, 2009
11
awesome! I loved Casino Royale. This should be a great superhero movie
-Peter- on Feb 5, 2009
12
Eh I never really liked green lantern, his power was a ring that could conjure anything he wanted from what i remember, I think i remember a comic where he created a giant catchers mit to catch a plane that was crashing, ever since then I always thought the character was pretty stupid. Who knows who, I guess it could be ok, so now we have 2 "Green" DC superhero movies coming out at the same time huh, I hate it when hollywood does stupid crap like that.
Richard on Feb 5, 2009
13
DAMN!!!! I thought this was going to be one of those failed attempts like Daredevil or Ghost Rider. But to hire the director that helped resurrect the greatest film franchise in film history not once, but TWICE???!!!! Wow, this thing looks like it's got a chance!!!
Ivana Amantohugandkiss on Feb 5, 2009
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at number 2- Alex why do you think he would be afraid of sequels??
Lukeyb on Feb 5, 2009
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#1, David Hasselfhof? Kill yourself for even mentioning that as a joke or not. And I looked you up in IMDB and had NOTHING under your name....how about I cast my fist into your face? You suck at life. Think about that for a second....life....you're just not good at it.
Cmurder on Feb 5, 2009
17
Good choice. Has the scope within the vision.
Tim "Cloverfield" on Feb 5, 2009
18
David Boreanaz as Hal Jordan
Vic on Feb 5, 2009
19
"Aint it cool" news.
Fisherr on Feb 5, 2009
20
hey hollywood has done something right for once.
darrin on Feb 5, 2009
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I know huh Kyle Rainer so much cooler and modern
Spock on Feb 5, 2009
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16 and 21... just goes to show how much you know about Green Lantern 😛
teyhtr on Feb 5, 2009
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Green Lantern is quite a diffferent character from most...if they would leave out the really thick cheese like giant catchers mitts and other cartoon style gimicks this could turn out better than expected...I would love to see this succeed....
moldybread on Feb 5, 2009
24
I really hope they cast Sam Worthington (Terminator Salvation). He's an up and coming acting from OZ. He will also be seen in James Cameron's new film Avator. He has the right look, plus check him out in the Aussie Crocodile film "Rogue".
Jamie on Feb 6, 2009
25
I heard a while back that Common was gonna be cast as GL, or he was considering it.
bourneidentity on Feb 6, 2009
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#25 that was suppose to be for the JL movie but i think they're not doing that any more and to #1 David Hasselhoff are u freaking kidding me!!!
JS Chan on Feb 6, 2009
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according to ryan reynolds imdb, he is green latern
Nathan on Mar 29, 2010
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