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Green Lantern gets $9 million to fix special effects [26th April 2011 11:31:56]

We're less than two months away from seeing Ryan Reynolds in action as Green Lantern, but only if his suit is ready in time.

Warner Brothers has poneyed-up a last minute extra $9 million to 'fix' the visual FX ? specifically, the entirely CGI Green Lantern suit.

The VFX shown in the first trailer did little to excite fans and the footage shown at WonderCon, whilst an improvement, showed that there was still work to be done, especially on Reynolds' facemask.�

The extra dough should give the production team the leeway they need to make sure everything is perfect for the film's June 17th release date.

Whether this means there has been an 'end of days', 'everything is going wrong' style panic in the Green Lantern camp, or simply that Warner Bros. have recognised a problem and are going about fixing it is unknown.

Either way, Green Lantern hits cinemas June 17 2011. Source: www.totalfilm.com

Michael Clarke Duncan will voice Kilowog in Green Lantern [13th April 2011 16:39:43]

Michael Clarke Duncan has officially signed on to lend his voice to the upcoming superhero flick Green Lantern.�
He will be voicing a Green Lantern Corps "drill sergeant" named Kilowog.
Duncan will be joining the likes of Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively and Geoffrey Rush - who also joined the cast in post-production, just two weeks ago. Rush will be playing Tomar-Re, "a bird/fish-like alien".�
The actor was nominated for an Oscar in 1999 for his portrayal of death row inmate John Coffey in Frank Darabont's The Green Mile.
He will also be appearing next in Kung Fu Panda 2, reprising his role of Commander Vachir.�
Green Lantern�will be released on 17 June. Source: www.totalfilm.com

Ryan Reynolds says Green Lantern “isn’t a comedy” [3rd April 2011 23:32:47]

Hot on the heels of the newly-revealed Green Lantern footage, the movie's star Ryan Reynolds has spoken out in defence of the comic adap's tone.

Aware that his rep as a comedian - paired with the divisive footage released so far - might be a cause for concern, Reynolds has moved to appease potentially worried fanboys.

"They were worried about it," Reynolds tells the Los Angeles Times. "Fanboys are known to have a very loud voice. They're known to beat their chest hard when they like or dislike something, and that's all part of the game."

Endeavouring to temper any ill feeling towards his comic movie tentpole, Reynolds went on to explain:

"I know, because I was an integral part of the shooting process, that the movie is not a comedy at all. The levity is really kind of more in a Han Solo kind of vein than anything broader."
Boy do we hope he's right. Source: www.totalfilm.com

Green Lantern trailer arrives [16th November 2010 20:54:42]

At the weekend we brought you some promo footage of Green Lantern from the US show Entertainment Tonight - now the trailer that those clips came from is available online. Source: www.totalfilm.com

First Green Lantern footage online [13th November 2010 09:02:40]

The very first footage of Martin Campbell's Green Lantern has finally hit the web. Entertainment Tonight will be previewing footage from the much-anticipated superhero movie on Tuesday night, and they've put a 30-second teaser reel online which you can check out below. Yes, it's basically a trailer for a trailer, but there is plenty on display within this brief spot. For starters, there's actual footage of Ryan Reynolds in the fully-CGI costume (something Comic-Con audiences were denied) and you get glimpses of Blake Lively and another Lantern. Source: www.totalfilm.com

Green Lantern concept art online [22nd October 2010 01:32:32]

Green Lantern buzz has died down a little post-Comic-Con ahead of its June 2011 release. But as we wait for the first official trailer to hit the net (it will be attached the prints of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 when it opens on 19 November), Warner Bros have sated our thirst for pretty Lantern things with some of the flick's concept art. Source: www.totalfilm.com