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Earlier this week, it was reported that Peter Saaaarsgåaård (great actor, check him out in Salton Sea) was in negotiations to play Ryan Reynolds-nemesis Dr. Hector Hammond in the Green Lantern.  Hammond is a psychic who got his powers from a meteor.  Meanwhile, HitFix reports that they have it on good authority (a psychic meteor, perhaps?) that Jackie Earle Haley will play Sinestro.

…Unless something drastically changes, he is in the film.
I’m not going to play a semantics game here… there is a very real difference in meaning between terms like “in talks” and “in negotiations” and “on a list,” and I’m not sure where they are in that process right now.  But I am willing to say that Haley is the guy.  He just wrapped up some additional shooting on “Nightmare” for the studio, and they’re said to be extremely happy with his work in the film.  The groundwork is being laid in the first “Lantern” for a much larger role for Sinestro later on if this first movie does well, and they like the idea of continuing their relationship with Haley.

If you guessed that a character named “Sinestro” isn’t a gentle Inn keeper or kindly retard wrangler, you’d be right.

For using the power of the Green Lantern to instill fear rather than combat it, the Guardians banished Sinestro to the antimatter universe—a counterpart to the “real” universe made up of “negative matter.” Sinestro ended up on the Antimatter world of Qward, that universe’s counterpart of the Guardians’ homeworld Oa, which was ruled by a race of warriors and scientists known as the Weaponers of Qward, who bore a fierce hatred of the Guardians and all Green Lanterns. By exiling Sinestro to a world ruled by evil beings who specifically hated him as a Green Lantern, the Guardians hoped to humble him. Their attempt at punishment would be a major miscalculation, however. Sinestro believed himself to have been wronged by his former masters, and now hated them just as much as the Weaponers did. [Nerdipedia]

Jeez, someone should really make Cliff’s Notes for this nerd stuff.  Anyway, I heard when they first threw Jackie Earle Haley into the Antimatter world, he shouted “You got it wrong: See I’m not trapped in here with the Weaponers of Qward, the Weaponers of Qward are trapped in here with me!” and bit a chunk off a guy’s face.  Maybe.  Hey, this movie’s still about a guy who gets a magic promise ring from an alien, right?  Cool, just checking.