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Gossip Girls star Blake Lively has signed on to star opposite Ryan Reynolds as the female lead in The Green Lantern for WB and director Martin Campbell.  The good news is she’s about 10,000 times hotter than Gwyneth Paltrow.  The bad news is that having this huge part will probably make her all uppity and now she’ll never do nude scenes.  blake_lively-Bikini

Lively will play Carol Ferris, who runs her father’s aerospace company and hires cocky test pilot Hal Jordan (Reynolds), who later becomes the intergalactic policeman Green Lantern. In the comics, the romance became complicated when an alien race bestowed her the power of a crystal called the Star Sapphire.

The role called for a slightly older actress but Lively, who stars in the CW’s “Gossip Girl,” impressed the studio and filmmakers with her audition.  Keri Russell and Jennifer Garner were reportedly among those in the mix for the role. [THR]

Aw, that’s cute, she’s playing someone’s boss.  What, you’ve never had a smoking hot 22-year-old blonde for a boss before?  The way I see it, this your classic Rachel Dawes conundrum.  Rachel Dawes was the hard-nosed Assistant DA in Batman.  In Batman Begins she was Katie Holmes, who’s plenty attractive, but about as believable a tough lawyer as a puppy with a stethoscope is a doctor.  In Dark Knight they replaced her with Maggie Gyllenhaal, who’s much more believable, but not exactly eye candy.  I don’t know where I was going with this, but now all I can think about is a puppy with the stethoscope.  “Nurse?  We’ll need to do a full cat scan.”

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