Thor opens this weekend, but today Green Lantern dropped a new trailer, almost as if to say, “WE SEE YOUR SKARSGÅRD AND RAISE YOU SARSGAARD.” It opens June 17th, and I know I’ve been sh*t talking this project from the beginning, but as more of the FX works gets done, it’s gradually starting to seem less bland.  Basically, an alien comes down from space and gives Ryan Reynolds a promise ring.  Ryan Reynolds pledges allegiance to a lantern and then gets sucked into space where a big alien with a black guy’s voice beats him up.  Then he comes back to Earth to make out with Blake Lively and it’s awesome because they’re the most ridiculously good-looking couple of all time.  Somewhere along the line, Stellan Sarsgaard gets into Mr. Burns’s nerve tonic and it turns him into Joss Whedon, and Ryan Reynolds has to use his powers to keep him from making more adaptations of Buffy.  Something like that.

DC just released three new images of Ryan Reynolds in his Green Lantern costume (or, more accurately, two-thirds of Ryan Reynolds’ face grafted onto some Green Lantern CGI).  Lantern opens June 17th (latest trailer after the jump), starring such-a-sweet-boy Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaaaaåaååøøård, Mark Strong, and Tim Robbins, with direction by Martin Campbell. 

The suit looks… uh… good?  I guess?  I like all the people involved in this, and I’m trying not to be unnecessarily dismissive, but if I’m being honest, I can think of at least 10 things I give more of a sh-t about than this movie, and nine of them involve possible lunch food. OOH HELP US, RYAN REYNOLDS, SAVE THE UNIVERSE WITH YOUR GREEN JIZZ-FOG RING!

[OliverWillis via LatinoReview]

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My decision not to go to WonderCon seems to have been validated as the four minutes of Green Lantern footage WB screened there has now been released online (you can watch it below).  The Martin Campbell-directed DC Comics property starring Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively opens June 17th. The footage shows mostly what happens when the alien Abin-Sur (I don’t trust him, he sounds Moslem) comes to Earth and gives Ryan Reynolds his promise ring.  Ryan Reynolds is confused at first, but then he starts spontaneously saying the magical Green Lantern slam poem, which seems like it’s supposed to get us really excited, but how many people were actually into Green Lantern? Unless I’ve got a serious case of false consensus, I’d venture to say not a lot. Then he flies into space and meets some CGI people.  My favorite part is where his mask disappears and the alien guy says, “Your mask will appear when protection of your identity is required.”

Yes, because that inch and a half of green plastic around the cheekbones would make a person unrecognizable, even to his own mother.

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In conjunction with the release of Green Lantern #61, DC has included an exclusive glimpse at Tomar-Re from the upcoming Green Lantern film starring Ryan Reynolds.  Tomar-Re is apparently a member of the Green Lantern Corps.  I’m not going to pretend I know much about Green Lantern, but I can tell you that Tomar-Re roughly translates to “To take Re” in Spanish.

“Growing up on the planet Xudar, Tomar-Re comes from a peaceful avian race that focuses their efforts on the arts and sciences instead of war,” explains DC writer and Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns in the accompanying text, “His nature to examine everything has led the Guardians of the Universe to appoint him the archivist and protector of the sacred Book of Oa. When not studying the nature of the Corps, Tomar-Re patrols the sector of 2813 where he developed a close friendship with neighboring sector 2814′s Green Lantern, Abin Sur. Tomar has taken an interest in Abin’s replacement, Hal Jordan. Though Hal is not one for details, Tomar hopes to teach Hal what it means to be a Green Lantern.” [Daily Blam via ComingSoon]

Anyone else think “green lantern” would be a pretty good name for a bong? (*takes puff of inhaler*) Anyway, very fascinating.  Wait, did you say Avian race?  That’s strange, I would’ve pegged him as a sea creature.  All I know is, if I had gills, I’d spend a lot of time watching Ryan Reynolds swim.

Lol wut?

The trailer for Martin Campbell’s Green Lantern has leaked a little early, but that’s nothing to hold against it.  What are you, my girlfriend?  Anyway, it starts out with Ryan Reynolds playing Hal Jordan, just your average Joe.  You know the type: hot-shot, womanizing ne’er-do-well fighter pilot with a suspiciously-hot female superior who’s always telling him to get it together.  If you’ve met one, you’ve met them all.  He may be a litte rough around the edges, but he’s gotta look good if he’s ever going to get a space alien to put a ring on it, so he takes his shirt off a lot.

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