Tagged: Ryan Reynolds

Bad Teachers, Cars 2 face off to close out June

Ryan Reynolds will do battle this weekend with Cameron Diaz and a cartoon car equipped with, among other goodies, a whistler radar detector.

Green Lantern, which badly needs to win a second consecutive weekend, will have to outperform the 38-year-old sex appeal of Diaz, and the youthful kid-appeal of Pixar’s latest animated masterpiece; the studio is coming off its biggest box office success ever in last summer’s Toy Story 3.

Can the 34-year-old Reynolds make Bad Teacher and Cars 2 “beware the power” of his light? We’ll know in a couple days.

Ryan Reynolds is Green Lantern!

Well, the comic book war between Marvel and DC has just stretched over into Hollywood; following this past spring’s release of the X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie, Ryan Reynolds’ turn as Deadpool was entrancing enough to excite Fox execs about featuring Reynolds as the undead hitman in his own Deadpool movie. Yet, with the i’s still waiting to be dotted and t’s crossed, along came that manufactured home known as Warner Brothers to scoop up the hot hero actor.

It was announced this week that Reynolds beat out Justin Timberlake and Bradley Cooper, among others, to land the lead in Warner Brothers’ upcoming GREEN LANTERN, to be written/produced/directed by Greg Berlanti, Mark Guggenheim and Michael Green. Martin Campbell will handle the behind-the-camera duties and shooting starts in January in Australia.

Did Reynolds oust himself from the Deadpool movie with this move? Or is the Green Lantern role a step up? It’s an interesting move, to be sure, and one that ensures Reynolds will have a premiere hero role in his future.