Green Lantern may have his foe. Peter Sarsgaard is in talks to play Hector Hammond, Green Lantern‘s high-domed foe. In the movie version Hammond will be the son of a senator who disappoints his father; when a radioactive meteor (connected to the crash landing of Abin Sur’s spaceship, whence Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) gets his power ring) gives him psychic powers he decides to become a villain. This marks the first time a character named Hector has appeared in an English language superhero movie.
I really, really like Sarsgaard*, and he can without a doubt do creepy (I spent the first half of An Education thinking he was going to murder Carey Mulligan), so he’s a great choice for villain. Certainly better than Blake Lively, who has been cast as Carol Ferris, Green Lantern’s love interest/boss. Lively, who appears on Gossip Girl, is slightly younger than some of Ryan Reynold’s pubes.
Green Lantern shoots in March in New Orleans.
via Hollywood Reporter
*Fun fact: he was named after a respiratory disease protector!
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seriously? this is the best they can come up with again? another villian attached to the origin ala Batman '89?
why not sinestro? that story would be AWESOME
Blake is TOO OLD we need more sexy 11 year olds in movies (and life, amirite?) Kick-ass is gonna be amazing.
I like the casting choice. Hector Hammond is a worthy nemesis to Green Lantern and along with Magneto and the Leader (and to a lesser extent, Galactus) are pretty kitschy villains in comic books. This guy (great note btw) is underutilized as an actor.Great choice. BTW, he and Liev Schreiber and Stellan Skarsgard* have some of the coolest names in Hollywood so there's that too *Fun fact: he was named after a line of protective bandages and ointments
That Saars Guard joke was already done on SNL like three years ago. How's it feel to be beaten to the punch by SNL?
That mustache he's sporting looks a bit more Sinestro-esque.
Sinestro is to GL what Venom is to Spidey. No way they're going to blow their load on the first film. Wait for the sequal to see Sinestro.
I think this is great casting. The role in the earlier draft of the script I'd read was a bit "light" on his character-arcs… Sarsgard will lend that extra gravitas that the villain needs to shape him up into something special.
And for all those freaks who are worried, Sinestro IS IN the film, at the exact perfect capacity you'd want him to be in a FIRST GL film. If you're familiar with the funny books, he never started out as a bad guy.
They better get Jackie Earle Haley to play him…
And also, I think Blake Lively is fantastically hot/sufficient enough to play Carol Ferris. You don't need to be Merryl Streep to pull this one off.
the center of the world's peter sarsgaard?
"when a radioactive meteor (connected to the crash landing of Abin Sur's spaceship, whence Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) gets his power ring)"…. This fucking subgenre of film needs to go away forever and make some room for something a little less corny.
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