Comments on: Nathan Fillion is a Fan of Reynolds as Green Lantern

By: Joe(the other one)

Joe(the other one) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:42:36 +0000

Hey Jojo instead of pushing the minority angle, why not aim for more black heroes to get thier own movies? Luke Cage, Black Panther, and Bishop all immediately come to mind. I mean let’s face it one Spawn movie and a Blade trilogy don’t really fill the void do they? Besides, changing a character’s race just makes for a bad move anyway. Remember Kingpin in Daredevil?

By: Jojo

Jojo — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:37:52 +0000

Reynolds would be my second candidate!

By: Jojo

Jojo — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:37:23 +0000

I Think that Common should play Green Lantern. We Need A African American. We Would also be good i the Justice League Movie.

By: Ty

Ty — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 05:04:35 +0000

I found the casting of Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool an A+. He was screwed in the very bad Wolverine movie. I do not see him as Hal Jordan. I see Jon Hamm as Hal Jordan. Just my thoughts.

By: Joshi

Joshi — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:57:57 +0000

I saw The Waitress (mainly because Nathan Fillion was in it although Keri Russel is gorgeous) and yes he was great in it. The movie wasn’t anything special (not bad in any way, just kind of forgettable) and really, if you’re not a fan of Fillion, it may not be worth seeing (hell, even if you are a fan, watching a movie just for one performance is a little sad… incidentally, in my spare time I like to dress up as a pot and go around pointing out the darkness of various kettles).

By: BloodSucking Leech

BloodSucking Leech — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:51:53 +0000

Just my 2 cents–Nathan Fillion was great in a little movie nobody saw called “The Waitress.”

By: Rob Keyes

Rob Keyes — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:26:17 +0000

@ Josh R,

You’re totally right.

A good example of that is Bradley Cooper who got good face time on TV in the early days of Alias then in the last few years, had a bunch of supporting roles in big comedies.

This led him to a lead role in Hangover and now he’s on the A-Team, and (coming full circle) was a candidate for Green Lantern too!

By: Rob Keyes

Rob Keyes — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:24:15 +0000

@ cleantalkingchimp,

Imagine if it did go back in time though… (fixed, btw)

By: Josh R

Josh R — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:28:35 +0000

See that’s the biggest issue with Nathan Fillion. He has a huge cult following from his TV roles, but he’s not very well-known mainstream. As much as I’d love him to play Green Lantern, I knew it would never happen.

What the guy needs to do is get a bunch of small roles in big movies. A bit part in a few big blockbusters can go a long way towards getting one of his own.

Just look at Reynolds. If it weren’t for his couple of Deadpool scenes in the Wolverine flick, we wouldn’t even be getting a Deadpool movie, let alone with him as the star. I’m also betting that Wolverine had something to do with him getting the Green Lantern part.

By: sneaky pete

sneaky pete — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:23:47 +0000

How about Fillion as Guy Gardner. Doesn’t have to be a big role. Just something to get him on the screen and give a typical Guy Gardnerism that makes everyone smile a little. OH and i like the idea of Fillion playing Jordans dad too.

By: mangos

mangos — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:20:45 +0000

seriously, i gotta imagine there’ll be flashback scenes involving hal jordan’s father. who better than nathan fillion!!!?

By: The Critic

The Critic — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:38:41 +0000

Ink
what does that mean? If done right?

By: INK

INK — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:12:23 +0000

Guys and gals, if Deadpool is actually done RIGHT, we will never see Reynolds face in the Deadpool movie. So him being GL wouldn’t matter a lick.

By: tama-re

tama-re — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:46:22 +0000

I like Reynolds as an actor and think it’s great that he got the part but I think he’s needs to stick to one comic book character and that’s it. All the jumping from one to the next kills the freshness of the character and you begin to pay more attention to just Ryan Reynolds not “the character” he’s portaying. Ryan Reynolds fits “DeadPool” like a glove and personally I think that he should have just stuck with that character and made it his own but then again I don’t blame him for shooting for another character because 2oth Century Fox horribly mishandled and destroyed DeadPool’s character in X-O:Wolverine and I’m sure that he had to have been disappointed.I think Mr.Reynolds is thinking of getting Christian Bale type status and wants to be in a “Sci-fi”/”Nolanesque” notoriety type of movie. That being said, good luck to you Mr.Reynolds but leave DeadPool alone all together,just stick with GL and let Fox just hang themselves for refusing to follow the source material.

By: Joshi

Joshi — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:08:53 +0000

Fillion approved? That’s good enough for me.

And Kane, lighten up. While I would love for Nathan Fillion to take every single movie role under the sun (Catwoman anyone? Can’t be worse than Halle Berry), I’m well aware that his chances of becoming a huge movie star are slim. There are certain people who are destined to become huge movie stars and others who are destined to become huge TV stars and rarely do the two mix. Still, a guy can dream can’t he?

By: Ken J

Ken J — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:17:29 +0000

I don’t know Kane, a Tom Welling Superman might do well in the box office under the same principle that helped Titanic. Get the girls to go, you get the guys that are forced to go with them, lol. Smallville is basically a teenage soap opera now, I’m sure there are plenty of young girls that will watch it just for him…

By: Kane

Kane — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:09:50 +0000

Oh my goooood… If I have to read “Nathan Fillion” and “Green Lantern” in the same sentence ever again, I think I might just cry!

Was he ever even considered for the role outside of the very limited “dedicated cult following”? I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it again: fanboy wishlist casting (almost always from genre TV) for blockbuster movies does not hold any weight. The internet may offer a feeling that the genre-TV-loving community is vast but it isn’t – not in the grand scheme of movie making and the need to justify the hundreds of millions of dollars they invest in these things.

Sorry… but Nathan Fillion just oozes “TV actor” and – no matter how likable he may be on the small screen – very few people outside the fanboy community would have taken ‘Green Lantern’ seriously as a tentpole had he been cast in the lead role. It had to be either a complete unknown or a bonafide film star and – unfortunately – Fillion currently exists in that awkward space between.

The same thing goes for those hoping they make a ‘Superman’ film with Tom Welling.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:59:54 +0000

Seems to me that being Green Lantern and Deadpool is a bad idea. Espeically if they want a Deadpool movie

By: cleantalkingchimp

cleantalkingchimp — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:56:43 +0000

Green Lantern is scheduled to open June 17, 2009.

Now if the Green Lantern opens June 17,2009 it will truly make cinema history.It would be the only movie to have gone back in time to premiere.:p