The Vid Pick Of The Week comes from Comic-Con 2010 with a Green Lantern panel highlight video that includes star Ryan Reynolds reciting the Green Lantern oath!
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Monday, July 26, 2010
Comic-Con 2010: Green Lantern Press Conference
Director Martin Campbell joined Producer Donald De Line and actors Ryan Reynolds (Hal Jordan), Blake Lively (Carol Ferris), Mark Strong (Sinestro) and Peter Sarsgaard (Hector Hammond) to field questions about the big-screen origin story that sees test-pilot Hal Jordan chosen to carry the power of the Green Lanterns, an elite Corps of intergalactic police, sworn to protect the universe with special rings that have the power to physically manifest willpower.
Q: Is Green Lantern a hard sell for audiences simply because there's so much going on?
Martin Campbell: It’s not a tough one to explain. I think it’s all very, very clear. I think the story that we are telling, which is the Hal Jordon story, is quite concise, actually. I think that the fact that he is taken up to Oa and he’s inducted and he becomes a Green Lantern and the way in which the ring works through will power. The stronger your will power, the stronger your construct. Construct being whatever your imagination cares to create. The actual story is very simple. I know there are many complex characters and all the characters from the origin story go on to the dark side in later comics and things, but I think it’s very straight forward.
Q: For Ryan, are there any specific Green Lantern comic book storylines that you're particularly fond of?
Ryan Reynolds: There’s a lot of them that are inspiring. Unlike many of the comic books, it’s such a vast universe to this character and his contemporaries. I read a few different ones. For the most part this is an origin story so I was able to focus a little on Secret Origins, but then, obviously, our script is a much more in depth interpretation of that basic storyline. Geoff Johns described this thing as a version of Star Wars in the DC universe. I think that was a pretty apt description. You have so much you can mine out of this. Out of these comics and this character in particular. I think that any time you’re dealing with a guy who has something unbelievable and insurmountable to overcome, it makes for a pretty interesting story. As an actor, it’s an interesting and excellent thing for me to get an opportunity to play. This guy has a very distinct starting point. He’s a bit of a fractured human being. He's seen some difficult stuff in his life. He's seen his father die. We move on to find him a little bit later in life and he’s kind of arrogant, cocky and aimless. It’s this extraordinary power that is bestowed on him that sort of sets him on a bit of a humbler path. It's pretty cool.
Q: How does your experience playing a superhero in Green Lantern differ from playing the imaginary superhero in Paper Man? And is this costume even tighter than the Paper Man costume?
Reynolds: So you’re the guy that saw Paper Man! Yeah, this costume is a motion capture suit that I’m wearing. Because it’s not seen on camera, they’ve managed to find a material that I think most would agree is the most aggravating substance on earth. We’re shooting in Louisiana, which is pretty close to the sun in terms of the hottest place you can find anywhere around. The suit has actually been a little bit difficult running around in a unitard in the New Orleans high summer heat. If I were wearing anything, it’s going to be pretty uncomfortable doing an action movie this time of year in the deep south. I can't be too hard on the suit.
Q: You've done a lot of training for action scenes in the past, but how much more extensive is the training for the aerial sequences we've been hearing about?
Reynolds: The training’s just different. You’re not training on an aesthetic level, you’re training for more of a functional ability. You want to be able to stay out of the hospital for as long as you possibly can. But it is a Martin Campbell movie, so you’re bound to be there once or twice. He pushes you so hard and I think that’s why the action is so real and so visceral. You really feel what Martin once described as a knife fight in a phone booth. I think that’s a really apt description of how his action feels. It's rough. It's dirty. It's fast. You've got to be ready for it. It’s been fun to train in that regard for something actually real.
Q: Blake, did you have to do any special training to play Carol Ferris?
Blake Lively: I had to spend many days with Ryan. That was my training. No, I got to be in the Matrix rig, which was this rig that was invented for The Matrix. I think it goes about 20 feet high, but I like to say 50 so please spread that rumor because it makes me feel cooler. I’m on this gyroscopic waist belt. It works towards your weight and makes you very nauseous. You're just spinning in every direction. That was about the extent of my stunts for this, but we did some test pilot training, too, which was really fun.
Can you describe the style of your character and her fashion choices?
Lively: Nglia [Dickson] was very specific to make her relevant but not too modern. We didn’t want to connect the movie to any specific time. You don't want to date it, so this is very classic column dresses which is an iconic, strong, businesswoman look.
Q: Peter, your wife dated Batman. Was it fun to also be a part of a big comic book franchise like this?
Peter Sarsgaard: My wife indeed dated Batman. Yeah, I guess it was my turn. Although I don’t get much kissing. I might get a kiss in.
Q: Tell us about your character.
Sarsgaard: He is a biologist. He teaches the university but his private time is quite interested in extremophiles, animals that live in extreme environments on earth as a way to understand creatures that live on other planets. There’s a fine line there between science and wishful thinking. I thought about a lot of people who have sort of stretched our ideas. Added a little bit of creativity to science like Carl Sagan or Isaac Asimov. The part of me that, when I was young read more things like that than I did straight comics. A sense of wonder about the world where you start filling in gaps, which is what most scientists try not to do. So I really thought of him as kind of a dreamer in a lot of ways.
Q: Ryan, can you talk about playing characters in both the Marvel and DC Universes? Can you talk about that casting process?
Reynolds: I don’t personally delineate too much between Marvel and DC and don't pay any heed to that supposed rivalry. We live in a world in which the technology has allowed us to bring these kinds of movies to life in ways that they couldn't two or three years ago. The emergence of the superhero franchise being so mainstream now I think is a result of that and nothing really more. I’ve never really had that thought or issue about thinking, "I was in a Marvel film so I can’t be in a DC film". The casting process for me was the same as it would have been for anyone else. I met with Martin. I fell in love with the concept and the idea. He showed me the art department, which was incredible. It was an experience. I didn’t go to the art dept and see a few things, I had an experience there. To see the world they were creating for this character and this film was unlike anything I’d ever seen captured on film ever. That was an amazing moment for me. That's what really made me want to do it. Then I screen tested for it not once, but twice. I got up there and Martin put me through the paces. But the great thing about a screen test is that it's just another day of work. You're there onset and there's another actor with you. There's a set and a cameraman. You just go to work and it was a nice, pleasant experience.
Q: How many auditions did you go through?
Campbell: Well, we did test a few actors. There were a number. We tested a few of them twice. We went to England and tested a few people. Really, it’s a very serious consideration. This is not just one film but, if it’s successful, we’ll do a sequel, so we hope this is something that goes on for a long period of time. Everyone was good. Ryan was exceptional... That process is pretty standard for films like this one with so much riding on a potential franchise.
Donald De Line: We found out they always want to see the guy in the mask as part of the test. Ryan looks really good in a mask.
Reynolds: I actually have one little anecdote I wanted to add to this that I haven’t mentioned yet. There was a Cinderella element to it, because the FX house had this thing in our industry called life casts. It's a mold of an actor's head and you can build a mold of a prosthetic around that. You can do anything. Obviously, Peter had one done to wear his prosthetics in the film. The FX house that was asked to make the Green Lantern mask had no idea who was auditioning, but they arbitrarily chose my head from their vast catalogs of actors' heads with which to build this mask around. So when I showed up to set, my mask fit a little better than maybe Regis Philbin's or Richard Chamberlain’s. Or whoever else might have been auditioning that day.
Q: Green Lantern is pretty fearless. What's the biggest fear you grapple with in real life?
Reynolds: What scares me? Stepping out at Comic-Con in front of 6500 people is not a settling experience. In terms of fear, I try not to live in fear. Nerves are a nice thing. They let you know you're alive. I pay more attention to the nerves than I do the fear.
Lively: I don't want to talk about what scares me.
Q: Because many of the secondary characters are CGI, have you already cast the voices? Do you have a Kilowog?
Campbell: It's interesting. We’ve got some ideas we can’t disclose at the moment, only because of post production. We’re a year out from releasing and also the look of the characters. I’m sure there’ll be three or four voices tried for each character to see how they fit. You’re never quite sure until you cut the film of precisely how the characters turned out. Rather like screen tests for actors, we try voices to see what suits.
Q: Mark, you can talk about how you prepared to play Sinestro?
Mark Strong: I’m not sure you prepare for villains necessarily. You prepare for a character. I suppose the way I look at villains is that nobody is born evil. Usually something happens to their time on the planet or in space that causes them to become the way they are. You have to look at who he is and what he stands for and what he believes in. He is an incredibly organized, fearless, exponent of the Green Lantern Corps who believes that he knows best. In this movie as it stands, he becomes mentor to the newly minted human Green Lantern and basically guides him through his first steps. We deal with that process, so I don't think of him as a villain or even in a bad sense. He’s just an incredibly powerful presence who knows what he believes and what he wants to be right. If there’s anything that causes him later on to spill over to the dark side, it’s his unquestioning belief in his own rightness.
Q: Mark, do you get to do the same kind of beatdown you got in Kick-Ass?
Strong: Interestingly, going to work beating up a 12-year-old girl wasn’t an experience I have very often, so it’s nice to be facing a worthy opponent.
Reynolds: I'll take that as a compliment!
Strong: Yeah, we've been training. Part of the storyline is that Hal visits Oa and Sinestro tests him because he's not entirely sure that humans should be members of the Corps. So there's a sequence where Kilowog and Sinestro put him through his paces.
Q: There's a lot of talk about building to a bigger DC Universe on film. How did this affect the development of this film?
Campbell: No, I don't think [they affect it] at all. I think we stand absolutely on our own and we stand as our own superhero, our own story. And a terrific story it is.
Q: Ryan, how do you react when fans ask very, very specific questions about elements from, say, a certain issue of the comic book series?
Reynolds: Artful deflection. I would never profess to be as well-versed or as literate in that comic book world as they are. I do know a bit about certain comic books and I’ll be the first to tell them when I don't know about that particular issue.
Comic-Con 2010: Green Lantern Posters
Warner Brothers sent these poster images for Green Lantern out today and they are freaking awesome! We are putting this under comic-con news because they deserve it and should have been shown off this weekend!
Comic-Con 2010: Let Me in Teaser poster
Here's another teaser poster released at Comic-Con this weekend for Let Me In.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Comic-Con 2010: The Infinity Gauntlet
A comic-con comes to an end Marvel had one last display to reveal and it features the Infinity Gauntlet prop from the Thor movie. Check it ou!
Comic-Con 2010: Destroyer From Thor
The Destroyer from the upcoming Thor movie was revealed at Marvel Studios booth this weekend at Comic-Con. Check out the pics here!
Comic-Con 2010: Marvel Animated Series On G4
Comic scribe and guru Warren Ellis guided these series through their completion, and G4 will be the only network in the United States to air them, so, if you want to make yours Marvel, you're going to have to watch it here first! (G4TV.com)
Comic-Con 2010: T.G.I.F. Girl(s) Comic-Con Edition
Wearing costumes to Comic-Con is a very popular past time but these girls make everything everyone else was wearing obsolete. Every Friday at TMIAJ we post our girl of the week but here's some photos for the weekend before returning back to work tomorrow.
Comic-Con 2010: Cap's Shield
Marvel unveiled a new display today at Comic-Con revealing the actual shield used int he upcoming Captain America: The First Avenger.
Comic-Con 2010: Young Justice Trailer
The Cartoon Network has a new show this fall featuring a younger Justice League in Young Justice and heres the traile.
Comic-Con 2010: Han Solo Arrives For Cowboys & Aliens
"I just wanted to make a living as an actor," he said. "I didn't know about this."
Ford was on hand to help present his new film, Cowboys & Aliens, joining a panel that included co-stars Daniel Craig, Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde and director Jon Favreau. The film looks like an old-fashioned Western when suddenly a spaceship arrives. Favreau said he aimed to balance the two genres without relying on too many computer-generated effects.
"The take was make a by-the-book Western right down the middle ... and mix it with the type of sci-fi movie I grew up with, before they had CG when it was verging on horror," he said. "Then just use GCI to do what they couldn't do back then."
Cowboys & Aliens is set for release in July 2011.
Comic-Con 2010: Thor Footage Description & The Avengers Cast!
"Who are you?" asks Coulson and Thor looks up.
We then see what looks like a constellation system and we hear a voice-over by Anthony Hopkins as Odin as we see the golden buildings of Asgard and the camera goes into the throne room where he's giving a big speech to his son, who is kneeling at the base of the throne. We see glimpses of each of the Asgardian Gods including Sif, Balder and the Warriors Three, and Idris Elba's Heimdall. Odin is obviously mad at Thor and he says that he's going to take his power and banish him for his actions, sending a bolt that sends Thor down through the constellation where he lands in the desert and is found by Natalie Portman's Jane Foster. We then see Hemsworth walking around shirtless and impressing Foster and her assistant Darcy (played by Kat Dennings).
Comic-Con 2010: Captain America Panel Report
The teaser featured WW2 footage with Roosevelt’s Day of Infamy speech playing over it. Text lines said "Our courage and strength led us into battle, stories emerged of heroes … but one story has never been told" The shield is then revealed with the line "Every army starts with one man"
Captain America’s silhouette, shield on the arm, standing in near profile. To black. “Next summer meet the world’s first avenger.” Chris Evans then turns around in full costume and fires the shield directly at the camera after the title was shown!
A question was asked to Johnston about the tone of the film. He said he loves Raiders of the Lost Ark. “At no time when watching that film do you feel it was made in 1936. It feels as modern today as it did back (when it was released.” He said you only get one chance to tell the origin story and promised it won’t feel like a movie made in 1942. I guess this was his way of telling people that it won’t feel old and stupid because it’s set during WW2. So there you have it!! Captain America: The First Avenger hits theaters next summer!!
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Comic-Con 2010: Mark Ruffalo Confirmed As Bruce Banner
This was all but confirmed a few days ago, but now it's confirmed. Mark Ruffalo will be playing Bruce Banner/The Hulk in Joss Whedon's upcoming The Avengers movie. Edward Norton revived the film series with his portrayal in The Incredible Hulk, but differences between him and Marvel Studios as pushed him out and Ruffalo in.
Comic-Con 2010: DC Universe Online Trailer
DC Universe Online hits the Playstation 3 and PC next year but check out this kick ass five minute trailer for the game!
Comic-Con 2010: Disney Epic Mickey Graphic Novel & More!
Disney Epic Mickey is the exciting new Wii exclusive game coming this fall featuring every ones favorite mouse. Check out the trailer below!!
Disney Publishing Worldwide announced today that it will release Disney Digicomics based on Warren Spector’s upcoming Disney Epic Mickey this fall for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.
Disney Epic Mickey “Tales of the Wasteland” will consist of six eight-page comics, and will feature characters and settings from the game. Author Peter David will pen the stories, while artist Claudio Sciarrone will provide the art.
Disney will also release a 64-page graphic novel based on Disney Epic Mickey that will also be written by Peter David, and will feature artwork by Paolo Mottura and Fabio Celoni that will echo the visually stunning style of the game. Disney will release the graphic novel in print as well as digitally.
Disney Publishing Worldwide announced today that it will release Disney Digicomics based on Warren Spector’s upcoming Disney Epic Mickey this fall for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.
Disney Epic Mickey “Tales of the Wasteland” will consist of six eight-page comics, and will feature characters and settings from the game. Author Peter David will pen the stories, while artist Claudio Sciarrone will provide the art.
Disney will also release a 64-page graphic novel based on Disney Epic Mickey that will also be written by Peter David, and will feature artwork by Paolo Mottura and Fabio Celoni that will echo the visually stunning style of the game. Disney will release the graphic novel in print as well as digitally.
Comic-Con 2010: Green Lantern Panel
Green Lantern hits theaters next summer!!
Comic-Con 2010: Renner Is Hawkeye
Jeremy Renner, the 39 year-old Oscar-nominated actor was long rumored for the part but it is now confirmed he will join a mega-cast of Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johanssen, Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, and the just recently confirmed Mark Ruffalo. Joss Whedon will be directing the mega blockbuster due in 2012.
