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[...] and Warner Brothers’ doors to make this a reality. Forget all the Brian Austin Green, Bradley Cooper and Chris Pine rumors, Fillion is the man for the job. This is just speculation but Fillion posted [...]

[...] a bit recently with his upcoming comedy The Hangover set to open this summer and speculation that he is one of the lead candidates to play Hal Jordan in the Green Lantern [...]

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Sam-Witwer-the-perfect-green-lantern

1. Batman’s.

2. Spider-Man’s.

3. The Flash’s (people who think otherwise need to READ some of Geoff Johns stuff, I mean, even in the silver age, there’s no denying he’s got some great Rogues. Definitely pick up Rogue’s Revenge in all it’s badassery)

Superman has some good Rogues, so he’d probably be number 4.

You’re welcome, bro!

I think WW could work (see the new animated flick), but it definitely isn’t on par with Superman or Batman or even The Flash and GL, much as DC pretends she is (what with the trinity and all that BS, what they really mean is they need an iconic female character lol).

I totally agree, The Flash should be next. I liked NPH as Barry in New Frontier, but I think he is a little old to play him in a movie, especially if it’s an origin. Hal Jordan was 26 when he became Green lantern, Barry had just got into the CSI team and was 24 when he became The Flash. My personal choices for the role are (right now anyway) Scott Porter or Ryan Gosling.

Thanks, bud. Oh, and the special FX could be awesome of course, but the story should take priority over everything else.

As for which version, they have to go with Barry Allen. I love Wally West, but Barry Allen is my favorite Flash, and is the most adaptable to film and would be better for newcomers because he’s the beginning of The Flash in the same way that Hal Jordan is the beginning of the GL mythos. Audiences need something that says “hey, jump on here” like the new Star trek film did to get them interested, and that Flash is Barry Allen.

Wally West is too hokey for the movies. First he’s got all the baggage of being the sidekick Kid Flash, his origin is an exact ripoff of the seemingly impossible to re-create accident that gave Barry Allen his supepowers in the lab, he’s like a mini me version of Barry Allen. And the character has no consistency whatseoever. He’s a sidekick then a superhero, a womanizer then a happily married man, a public hero like the Fantastic 4 for the crux of his career then he has a secret identity again like when he was a sidekick, a millionare and a homeless man, he’s been hit by lightning and won the lottery, God, could you imagine how cheesy it would be if they did all this? This is stuff that only works in comic books and would never work in a movie. Only way Wally would work is if they gave him Barry’s story.

Now with Barry Allen we have:

The definitive Flash with an original secret origin who was never a sidekick without all the continuity baggage.

Here’s a copied and pasted post that goes on more on the subject that I thought was interesting and had many great reasons for why Barry Allen should get the Flash movie:

[i] 1. Barry Allen is the DEFINITIVE Flash

Barry Allen is all about speed which is what The Flash is supposed to be about. He matches the powers. Everything about him literally is about speed and its related forms. His whole life is about speed. That’s the premise of his comics, and in the age of technology where everyone wants everything instantly, instant communications, etc, speed is an incredibly relevant concept. Barry Allen is slow, The Flash is fast. That is the character.

Now I know that people like Wally West because he took over for Barry (and acts like a less jerky Anakin Skywalker) and I don’t mean any disrespect to the character because frankly, despite my Barry fandom, I do like Wally too, but The Flash was never supposed to be about a guy trying to fill a dead guy’s boots (which is a cool concept, it works for Wally and Bucky and will probably work for Robin, but honestly, what else were they gonna do with the “legacy” characters?). The Flash was always supposed to be about speed. That’s what the character is supposed to be about, that’s what the book was always supposed to be about (which is a fact I think people have forgotten or are just completely oblivious to with Wally and the legacy aspect so prevelant in the last few years), and that’s what the movie needs to be about: the fastest man alive. And that man is Barry Allen.

Had he not been late for work/everything else, he would not have had to work late in the forensics lab to make up for lost time the night he got hit by lightning/electrically charged chemicals (at age 24) and gained superspeed. Barry Allen is essentially fast because he is slow. He goes from being the guy everyone is waiting on to the guy waiting for everyone else. In a more complex sense, this is like how Jon Osterman became Doctor Manhattan in Watchmen, because he was a watchmaker and could reassemble things. That is what makes Barry Allen the definitive Flash, it’s not his accomplishments, it’s not his emoluments, it’s not the fact that he was The Flash longer than anyone else, it’s not that he’s the iconic/greatest Flash that makes him the definitive Flash, Barry Allen is the definitive Flash because he is the only one who is all about speed. He is fast because he is slow. He’s all about speed. No other Flash has that. Barry Allen is to Flash as Hal Jordan is to Green Lantern.

2. Barry Allen is the only MAJOR DC characters to have powers because of an accident

Look at every other major DC character (the big 7). None of them are formed by acts of randomness. Yes, I know Wally has an origin similar to Barry’s but it’s lame. First, Wally was a sidekick, second, his “origin” is a complete ripoff of Barry Allen’s. Like the accident that gave Barry his powers would suddenly just re-occur in the exact same place Barry got his powers and it would work on a kid. Hokey and stupid. Done once it makes sense, twice and it only works in a comic book (barely) and is unoriginal. They should have done something else.

3. Barry Allen is the only MAJOR DC character to have his powers because of his FLAWS

Hal Jordan has the Green Lantern ring because he is brave and honest, because of his good character traits. Barry Allen has super speed because he is lazy/late for everything, and by extension uncommited or easily distracted (a classic attribute of the absent minded professor syndrome), he has powers because of his character flaws. He is fast because he is slow.

4. Barry Allen isn’t bogged down by years of continuity and a legacy to scare new readers. He is his own person

Why aren’t there any new Star Trek fans? Because Trek for the longest time has had its doors closed to regular people. If you weren’t there from the start, then you missed it. The Flash is a similar case. It isn’t simple for people and the overwhelming continuity/legacy, frankly, doesn’t attract newcomers. “Well he was the Flash before this Flash and he was the Flash before this Flash and he was The Flash before this Flash, etc” scares newcomers and makes their heads spin. They need something quick and self contained as a jumping on point, the foundation/definitive version of it all, and that is Barry Allen.

5. Barry Allen is the only Flash who has a PERSONAL LIFE

Does Wally even have a job? Wally is a full time superhero, no one can relate to that. Barry is more of a person than he is a super character. He didn’t have powers for most of his life like Wally, Barry was the most inexperienced when he became Flash. Wally had years of training and had been Kid Flash before he became Flash, so did Bart, yet none of them have surpassed Barry Allen. A personal life is what The Flash needs so people can identify with the character. If people want a character with a public identity and super kids they can read/watch Fantsatic Four.

6. FORENSICS are COOL

Does anyone really need proof of this? Barry Allen is even more relevant not just because of the popularity of shows like “CSI” but because the forensics technology itself has advanced so much. It would me a mistake to pass up the chance to have a superhero on the big screen with a job this cool.

7. Barry Allen is the GREATEST Flash

Let’s see he:

- He co-founded the JLA, even suggested the “Justice” part of the moniker.

- Created the lagacy that Wally and Bart carry as The Flash

- Discovered the Multiverse, a HUGE part of the DC mythology

- Sacraficed his life in Crisis on Infinite Earths, saving the universe

- Without him, there would be no Wally West (nephew (or at least a superpowered Wally West anyway)) or Bart Allen (grandson from the future), they are related to him and are wearing his suit

As a publication material, Barry Allen jump-started the Silver Age and saved comics. If we are to speak in biblical terms, Superman would be Adam, the first man, but Barry would be Noah, the preserver of mankind. Barry as The Flash reignited interest in superheroes; had it not been for him there would never have been:

Green Lantern Hal Jordan and by extension the GL Corps
JLA
Fantasic 4
Spider-Man, Iron Man, and all the other current and major Marvel heroes
Science Fiction would not have been a major focus in superhero stories if not for The Flash
Was the Flash longer than anyone else (Barry was Flash for 30 + years, Wally was Flash for 22 years, Jay was Flash for 11, and Bart was Flash for 1 year and a month)

If it weren’t for him, we’d probably still be reading comics about romance or cowboys or horror stories. Also, I think he’s important because he stayed dead longer than any other mainstream, A-list superhero. So that’s why Barry Allen is important to comics as a publication material.

8. Barry Allen is the FASTEST Flash

I don’t care what anyone else’s opinion is on this. I don’t care what some update lacking site that you or anyone else runs says. Barry is the fastest Flash, that is a Flash Fact. Fastest Wally has ran is slightly over the speed of light. I’ve read all the comics, I know. Fastest Barry ran before COIE was TEN TIMES the speed of light with minimum strain. He went OVER 100 times faster than the speed of light in Crisis on Infinite Earths, I don’t care how many times Mark Waid or someone puts on panel “Wally is faster” because it’s ********. It’s the equivelant of how many times they told us Kyle Rayner was “better” than Hal Jordan with the ring. Wally’s never gone that fast. Barry went into/became the speed force when he did this, and he survived.

9. Barry Allen is INTELLIGENT

He’s the smartest. There’s no question. Dude’s been to college and is a forensic scientist. He deals with things in scientific terms. He’s not just smart because of that, it’s his whole approach to things as The Flash.

10. Barry Allen is witty and serious

This is a balance that will be needed in The Flash movie to keep it from being a complete joke as the suits at WB wanted to make it. Barry has a good sense of humor. He is sarcastic. He doesn’t make himself look like a jackass like Bart and Wally occasionally, he makes other people look like jackasses. There are two kinds of people to Barry: Guilty or Not Guilty. It’s very simple fact. Barry is fun to be around, but when things get serious, so does he. He has the perfect mix.

11. Great supporting cast

12. Great Rogues Gallery

13. Barry’s blue eyes just look better in the red and gold suit than green or yellow eyes. I’m serious. It goes perfect.

14. Barry Allen is the current/lead Flash

15. Barry Allen has been The Flash LONGEST

Barry was Flash for over 30 years and is adding to it. Wally was Flash for 22 years, Jay 11, and Bart 1.

16. Barry Allen is in the same league (pardon the pun) as Superman, Batman, and Hal Jordan. No sidekicks here.

17. Barry Allen is the most compatible for movies and the way DC is doing things

18. HE IS AWESOME

19. Barry Allen is The Flash who has been used most in alternate media in terms of story and character

JL/JLU: Barry Allen in story with Wally West name and likeness and Bart Allen’s personality

The Batman: Barry Allen

The Flash TV show: Barry Allen with Wally West story elements

Justice League: The New Frontier: Barry Allen

DC Super Hero Cartoons from the 60s-80s: Barry Allen

1970s Legends of the Superpowers tv movie: Barry Allen

Crappy JLA movie: A ****** version of Barry Allen a la “Friends”

20. He’s the BEST

21. He was Batman’s, Hal Jordan’s, Ollie Queen’s, and Wally West’s favorite Flash [/i]

49 minutes and counting for Trek.

Shawn Roberts also a leading candidate to play Hal Jordan:
http://screenrant.com/green-lantern-rumor-shawn-roberts-rob-7774/

[...] days ago, Bradley Cooper was rumored to be the leading candidate to play Hal Jordan in the upcoming DC superhero movie and in that article, I briefly ran through many of the big names [...]

I grew up a much larger fan of Marvel than DC but I have been reading a lot of the both from the last 5 years and I liked Infinite Crisis more than Civil War, I liked Countdown to Final Crisis more than World War Hulk and the Final Crisis I liked more than anything I have read recently from Marvel..I do really enjoy the Geoff Johns spin on Green Lantern and I think they have taken a much more mature approach to comics these last 10 years at least..I never read many comics from the 90’s but lot’s from the 70’s and 80’s..I really haven’t had time for SPiderman(my all-time fav) since he was unmasked during the Civil War..They (Marvel) killed off Captain AMerica who was another of my favorites growing up.

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Spiderman – Venom
Iron Man – Crimson Dynamo, Iron Monger
Daredevil – Bullseye
Hulk – Abomination
X-men – Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
Wolverine – Sabertooth

Almost every hero MArvel or DC has their Nemesis that is their polar oppostie in almost every way. That’s what a lot of fan’s want to see is a hero take on an evil mirror image of themselves.

More than I could for Green Lantern,but that’s because I’m more of a Marvel guy.

Here’s the link:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Sam-Witwer-the-perfect-green-lantern

Hal Jordon should be a young like a younger William Shatner Kirk> That’s the character! Jamie Bamber would be perfect. I thought he would have made a great young Kirk too