Ryan Reynolds Confidently Compares Green Lantern to Star Wars
Now, if you're Ryan Reynolds (which you are, in dreams), you're enough of a nerd to know that comparing your new, candy-colored superhero movie to Star Wars is an incendiary idea. I imagine Mr. Reynolds is aware of the wrath he may inspire with his new quote in the L.A. Times, but nonetheless, he did say The Green Lantern may follow directly in Star Wars's legacy. Is he correct? Quote after the jump.
Said Reynolds, a trip to the Green Lantern art department sealed his commitment to the movie because it reminded him of Star Wars's "epic" nature.
"I wandered through the art department, and that's what sold me, seeing this universe that's created and the scale of it all," Reynolds said. "They're taking the Green Lantern canon from the comics and they're extending it out into this new medium. Our goal is to make the first superhero who really goes on a 'Star Wars' kind of epic journey, and this mythology goes back a lot further than 'Star Wars.'"
Now, while no other movie approaches Star Wars's legend, I already disagree with Blurt Reynolds here. Other superhero movies have recalled the "epic" expansiveness of the 1977 sci-fi standard. Spider-Man 2 is still the best and most psychologically interesting superhero film, and it's certainly a successor to the character-centric gravitas of Star Wars. Still, Reynolds is setting the bar high for his new caper, and I admit that I'm finally torqued to see the damn thing. Question now is, do I plan on being let down? Do you?
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The comment is kinda valid, being that it looks like Hal Jordan is standing next to Jar Jar in that picture.
"Spider-Man 2 is still the best and most psychologically interesting superhero film"
cue the Nolan fanboys...
Bring them on. The Dark Knight is overwrought and self-important.
Why would he say anything different? Why would not be confident in the movie that took him all summer to make?
If you notice he's saying that the movie goes on a star wars kind of epic journey. What does that mean? It means that like most epics we follow a single man struggle with change and responsibility as history is written around him (ala luke skywalker). It's what an epic is. And this being a sci-fi space movie, and if it's trying to be something of epic proportions, what other measuring stick would you use if not star wars? I think it's a fine and completely uncontroversial thing to say.
I would posit that the "Spidey as Jesus" scene from Spiderman 2 was more self important than entirety of The Dark Knight.
I actually think he was referring more to the universe and number of inhabited worlds. The Lanterns police hundreds upon hundreds of worlds, all inhabited, all with vastly different species who have their own cultures and customs...all of which has been documented for 60+ years in the comics and all can be drawn from for the film.
Actually, the Green Lantern universe is actually MORE epic in scope than Star Wars.
So I have no problem at all with what he said.
I said actually like six times...
There has not been a super hero in space since Star Wars. The comparison is not off.
Actually, Louis, with all due respect, in my dreams I am Ian McShane.
Game, set and match. XD
has reynold seen the visual effect for the green lantern movie? star wars that came out early 35 years ago looks far superior
That absolutely makes NO sense-and Reynolds is a bland actor since Afflack.Green Lantern won't even be remembered in the way Superman the Movie or Batman(1989) are
It certainly seems to have as much CGI as the original Star Wars has in it these days...
"Spider-Man 2 is still the best and most psychologically interesting superhero film"
Thor, Dark Knight, Hellboy 2 and X Men 2 are all better movies.
Oh man-Pete took down both of my movie star dream boyfriends in one comment. Also I know nothing about the Green Lantern, but Ryan needs some hair product in that picture.
Not since the Star Wars cantina scene has a film opened our eyes to the likelihood that most lifeforms won't look like us. With the frequent discovery these days of planets that could support life, this perspective really is important for our culture to grasp.
These aren't Star Trek aliens: humanoids with funny foreheads, a limitation they had to justify with an episode explaining how all intelligent life was descended from the same species (um, OK). Green Lantern depicts a universe of diverse sentient beings: plants, animals of every genus we can imagine, crystals - limited only by our ability to conceive of how intelligent life might evolve independently on thousands of worlds.
What is especially exciting to me is that the writers had this vision in 1961. I read the book that year in which Tomar-Re (the bird guy who welcomes Hal Jordan to Oa) makes his original appearance. It opened my 7 year old mind to this vision of the diversity of all that could be out there, something GL has done better over the past 50 years than any other popular fiction.
June 17 every mind that is open and curious about the universe gets to expand their vision as well, as we finally see how diverse life in the universe might really be, a vision DC writers 1st shared a long time ago. I'm psyched.
Are you speaking for you or you the voice of us all??
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