Really cute story of a young fan's encounter with "The Green Lantern" (Ryan Reynolds). Includes video
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocom ... otion.html
COMIC-CON 2010: 'Green Lantern' and the wide-eyed kid -- sweet emotion or staged promotion?
July 24, 2010 | 6:30 pm
Geoff Boucher
excerpt:
Mark Strong, who plays Sinestro in the film, said the wide-eyed address from the audience was the most memorable part of a whirlwind day
"I almost started weeping, and I'm not joking," Strong said. Then he added: "Was that all real?"
Stories from Comic Con 2010
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Re: Stories from Comic Con 2010
by FlashFookersSqueeze » Tue Jul 27, 2010 9:00 am
Comic-Con 2010: Full Live Blog of Warner Brothers' Big Panel
July 24, 2010
by Alex Billington
Read more: http://www.firstshowing.net/2010/07/24/ ... z0utJA2RNq
Green Lantern:
11;54AM - Hero Complex's Geoff Boucher takes the stage stating "In brightest day, in blackest night…" then introduces Geoff Johns to the stage from DC Comics.
11:58AM - Saw about 60 seconds of footage from Green Lantern, introduced by a voiceover from Sinestro saying "focus your willpower on the green orb in front of you, it will begin to glow." Got to see a few shots of the other aliens and Hal Jordan punching someone with a construct fist for the first time and a shot of the Guardians' planet at the end.
11:59AM - Full cast and crew introduced on stage: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, director Martin Campbell, producer Donald DeLine and DC's Geoff Johns.
12:00PM - Reynolds: Admittedly didn't know as much about it going into this at first, then met Martin Campbell who has "such a high standard" for those around him and learned more about the character and thought it was an amalgamation between Chuck Jaeger and Han Solo. "Who wouldn't want to play that" for a movie, "let alone two or three."
12:02PM - Sarsgaard talking about how many "large heads" there are in the movie. "It's a whole other kind of acting" being in this. "It's a total blast." I had more fun doing this than I've had in a very, very long time. Hector Hammond's head gets bigger in the movie as time goes on.
12:03PM - Strong: Sinestro's job is to be Hal's mentor, like in the Secret Origin comics. "Whatever happens later, that's later."
12:04PM - Campbell: Keep the action very real, keep the relationship very real. Tonally there's a lot of humor, certainly with Blake and Ryan. "It's just terrific entertainment I think." It's great fun, but it's also a terrific adventure as well, he says. As for the costume - lost the white gloves because it looks far more "cooler" and far more "interesting." More of a skin than a costume. All the lines are from the muscles of a body. It is a work in progress, but he thinks it's "really cool." It will eventually look "incredibly cool," Campbell says.
12:06PM - Producer Donald DeLine - We'll take the audience into the center of the universe to the planet of Oa and we'll see all of the Green Lanterns - "it's part space opera as well." They had to create the entire world on the planet, production design from LOTR. Will feature many of the famous and well known characters, including Kilowog, Salak, Budika, Bzzt, Green Man and other characters (have no clue how to spell those - any GL fans help?).
12:09PM - Johns: One of the execs 10 years ago said "can we do the movie without the ring" and right then he thought "there's never going to be a Green Lantern movie." To see it involve and tackle it with "the rest and power" is a dream come true.
12:10PM - It's tough to shoot some of the action scenes outside in Louisiana because it's so hot. They've been so welcoming for them there. They still have about three weeks of shooting left to go.
12:11PM - Lively: Ferris is exciting to play because she gets to save Hal some of the time. They have some love, but they're also competitors. Excited about shooting scenes in fighter planes.
12:12PM - Sarsgaard: Excited to see Hector get his own origin story in this, too. Told the director earlier that his was thinking about his character as "the kid that licked the battery" or something like that, just to "see what stuff felt like and looked like."
12:14PM - First audience Q&A question: What got Sarsgaard hooked? Came in and talked to Martin, told him the story through the eyes of Hector… and that's about all he says.
12:15PM - How did they pick the characters? Characters that "make sense" in the history of Hal Jordan. Beyond that, it was picking characters they thought were all cool.
12:16PM - Could this be the beginning of a shared DC Universe on film? Johns: There's a lot of DC properties coming up, but I can't talk about them here.
12:16PM - Will Mark Strong's character in this movie "Kick-Ass?" As Hal's mentor he has an interesting time together, as he feels it's his duty to train him up, because he believes a human can't be a member of the Green Lantern Corps.
12:17PM - How did Ryan Reynolds get first approach? His "emotional kung fu" was that he showed him the art department and the worlds and the suit and the "tables had turned" and he was begging him for the job. He screen tested a couple of times and he's glad he did because he wants to be as right for this character as they do. What pushed it over the edge is that he saw this cocky guy who is given an extraordinary gift which is in turn incredibly humbling, and thought it was an incredible arc for a character especially in a superhero film.
12:18PM - Any emphasis on Hal Jordan and his father? At the beginning of the movie it's well know that Martin Jordan dies - guy in audience yells "what?!" and Campbell goes "come on, come on!" - and it effects Hal very much through the rest of the life and it plays into his fear, which he has to overcome finally at the end of the movie when he becomes a fully-fledged Green Lantern.
12:20PM - Who would they dress up as at Comic-Con? Reynold says a wookie because he likes to be "cute and dangerous." Sarsgaard says Captain America. Mark Strong says he'd LOVE to show us Sinestro. Martin says the fly Bzzt.
12:21PM - Little kid asks what Ryan does it feel like to say the Green Lantern oath? "It sounds a little like this." He recites the oath. "…beware my power, Green Lanterns light!" Then he puts up his fist and he's wearing the ring on it. Then signs a Green Lantern book and gives it to the kid, "awwww!"
12:22PM - Room for Alan Scott in the Green Lantern trilogy? "There's always room," is Johns answer, plain and simple.
12:23PM - Ryan confirms that Paralax is in it. "I better be allowed to say that," he says, everyone laughs. Thumbs up from Geoff Johns, so that's good.
12:24PM - If Mogo will be in the movie? Johns: "There's a lot of Green Lanterns in the movie."
12:25PM - Ryan: Each Green Lantern has a distinct fingerprint of how they fly. It's very easy to make all the flight CGI, but he loves that they figured out elaborate rigs where they can actually send time up in the air flying. They're doing things they just couldn't do a few years ago. "I think everyone in this movie gets up in the rigs at one point." Strong: Wires that allow them to bank and flying, says it "feels like being a kid again."
12:28PM - Campbell talks about how both Hal and Carol are test pilots, but it was pretty boring.
12:30PM - Ryan gives away the ring he has because he talks about how it's about being passed from one person to the next, so he wants to give it away to someone in the audience. Person who found a "ticket" under their seat got to get the ring Ryan had on his hand. Lucky fan! And that's the end of the Green Lantern panel.
Read more: http://www.firstshowing.net/2010/07/24/ ... z0utIzoHwo
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The lines in bold above give me shivers. Just sayin'.
July 24, 2010
by Alex Billington
Read more: http://www.firstshowing.net/2010/07/24/ ... z0utJA2RNq
Green Lantern:
11;54AM - Hero Complex's Geoff Boucher takes the stage stating "In brightest day, in blackest night…" then introduces Geoff Johns to the stage from DC Comics.
11:58AM - Saw about 60 seconds of footage from Green Lantern, introduced by a voiceover from Sinestro saying "focus your willpower on the green orb in front of you, it will begin to glow." Got to see a few shots of the other aliens and Hal Jordan punching someone with a construct fist for the first time and a shot of the Guardians' planet at the end.
11:59AM - Full cast and crew introduced on stage: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, director Martin Campbell, producer Donald DeLine and DC's Geoff Johns.
12:00PM - Reynolds: Admittedly didn't know as much about it going into this at first, then met Martin Campbell who has "such a high standard" for those around him and learned more about the character and thought it was an amalgamation between Chuck Jaeger and Han Solo. "Who wouldn't want to play that" for a movie, "let alone two or three."
12:02PM - Sarsgaard talking about how many "large heads" there are in the movie. "It's a whole other kind of acting" being in this. "It's a total blast." I had more fun doing this than I've had in a very, very long time. Hector Hammond's head gets bigger in the movie as time goes on.
12:03PM - Strong: Sinestro's job is to be Hal's mentor, like in the Secret Origin comics. "Whatever happens later, that's later."
12:04PM - Campbell: Keep the action very real, keep the relationship very real. Tonally there's a lot of humor, certainly with Blake and Ryan. "It's just terrific entertainment I think." It's great fun, but it's also a terrific adventure as well, he says. As for the costume - lost the white gloves because it looks far more "cooler" and far more "interesting." More of a skin than a costume. All the lines are from the muscles of a body. It is a work in progress, but he thinks it's "really cool." It will eventually look "incredibly cool," Campbell says.
12:06PM - Producer Donald DeLine - We'll take the audience into the center of the universe to the planet of Oa and we'll see all of the Green Lanterns - "it's part space opera as well." They had to create the entire world on the planet, production design from LOTR. Will feature many of the famous and well known characters, including Kilowog, Salak, Budika, Bzzt, Green Man and other characters (have no clue how to spell those - any GL fans help?).
12:09PM - Johns: One of the execs 10 years ago said "can we do the movie without the ring" and right then he thought "there's never going to be a Green Lantern movie." To see it involve and tackle it with "the rest and power" is a dream come true.
12:10PM - It's tough to shoot some of the action scenes outside in Louisiana because it's so hot. They've been so welcoming for them there. They still have about three weeks of shooting left to go.
12:11PM - Lively: Ferris is exciting to play because she gets to save Hal some of the time. They have some love, but they're also competitors. Excited about shooting scenes in fighter planes.
12:12PM - Sarsgaard: Excited to see Hector get his own origin story in this, too. Told the director earlier that his was thinking about his character as "the kid that licked the battery" or something like that, just to "see what stuff felt like and looked like."
12:14PM - First audience Q&A question: What got Sarsgaard hooked? Came in and talked to Martin, told him the story through the eyes of Hector… and that's about all he says.
12:15PM - How did they pick the characters? Characters that "make sense" in the history of Hal Jordan. Beyond that, it was picking characters they thought were all cool.
12:16PM - Could this be the beginning of a shared DC Universe on film? Johns: There's a lot of DC properties coming up, but I can't talk about them here.
12:16PM - Will Mark Strong's character in this movie "Kick-Ass?" As Hal's mentor he has an interesting time together, as he feels it's his duty to train him up, because he believes a human can't be a member of the Green Lantern Corps.
12:17PM - How did Ryan Reynolds get first approach? His "emotional kung fu" was that he showed him the art department and the worlds and the suit and the "tables had turned" and he was begging him for the job. He screen tested a couple of times and he's glad he did because he wants to be as right for this character as they do. What pushed it over the edge is that he saw this cocky guy who is given an extraordinary gift which is in turn incredibly humbling, and thought it was an incredible arc for a character especially in a superhero film.
12:18PM - Any emphasis on Hal Jordan and his father? At the beginning of the movie it's well know that Martin Jordan dies - guy in audience yells "what?!" and Campbell goes "come on, come on!" - and it effects Hal very much through the rest of the life and it plays into his fear, which he has to overcome finally at the end of the movie when he becomes a fully-fledged Green Lantern.
12:20PM - Who would they dress up as at Comic-Con? Reynold says a wookie because he likes to be "cute and dangerous." Sarsgaard says Captain America. Mark Strong says he'd LOVE to show us Sinestro. Martin says the fly Bzzt.
12:21PM - Little kid asks what Ryan does it feel like to say the Green Lantern oath? "It sounds a little like this." He recites the oath. "…beware my power, Green Lanterns light!" Then he puts up his fist and he's wearing the ring on it. Then signs a Green Lantern book and gives it to the kid, "awwww!"
12:22PM - Room for Alan Scott in the Green Lantern trilogy? "There's always room," is Johns answer, plain and simple.
12:23PM - Ryan confirms that Paralax is in it. "I better be allowed to say that," he says, everyone laughs. Thumbs up from Geoff Johns, so that's good.
12:24PM - If Mogo will be in the movie? Johns: "There's a lot of Green Lanterns in the movie."
12:25PM - Ryan: Each Green Lantern has a distinct fingerprint of how they fly. It's very easy to make all the flight CGI, but he loves that they figured out elaborate rigs where they can actually send time up in the air flying. They're doing things they just couldn't do a few years ago. "I think everyone in this movie gets up in the rigs at one point." Strong: Wires that allow them to bank and flying, says it "feels like being a kid again."
12:28PM - Campbell talks about how both Hal and Carol are test pilots, but it was pretty boring.
12:30PM - Ryan gives away the ring he has because he talks about how it's about being passed from one person to the next, so he wants to give it away to someone in the audience. Person who found a "ticket" under their seat got to get the ring Ryan had on his hand. Lucky fan! And that's the end of the Green Lantern panel.
Read more: http://www.firstshowing.net/2010/07/24/ ... z0utIzoHwo
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The lines in bold above give me shivers. Just sayin'.
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Re: Stories from Comic Con 2010
by FlashFookersSqueeze » Tue Jul 27, 2010 9:37 am
SDCC: Green Lantern Press Conference
comingsoon.net
Silas Lesnick
July 26, 2010
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=68258
excerpt:
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!
Q: Do you guys get a lot of one on one time?
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.
comingsoon.net
Silas Lesnick
July 26, 2010
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=68258
excerpt:
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!
Q: Do you guys get a lot of one on one time?
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.
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Re: Stories from Comic Con 2010
by FlashFookersSqueeze » Tue Jul 27, 2010 9:58 am
Exclusive Interview with Green Lantern's Sinestro: Mark Strong
July 27, 2010
by Alex Billington
Read more: http://www.firstshowing.net/2010/07/27/ ... z0utWZb5gF
http://www.firstshowing.net/2010/07/27/ ... rk-strong/
Great video interview. Alex finally met Mark after having interviewed him several times over the last few years (by phone.) He also sent us a DM on twitter. Apparently this was really exclusive! The only interview Mark gave at Comic-Con was to Alex at firstshowing.net. Congrats Alex!
July 27, 2010
by Alex Billington
Read more: http://www.firstshowing.net/2010/07/27/ ... z0utWZb5gF
http://www.firstshowing.net/2010/07/27/ ... rk-strong/
Great video interview. Alex finally met Mark after having interviewed him several times over the last few years (by phone.) He also sent us a DM on twitter. Apparently this was really exclusive! The only interview Mark gave at Comic-Con was to Alex at firstshowing.net. Congrats Alex!
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Re: Stories from Comic Con 2010
by FlashFookersSqueeze » Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:15 am
This is like Christmas! 
IGN Video Interview: Mark Strong
http://movies.ign.com/dor/objects/40980 ... 72410.html
IGN Video Interview: Mark Strong
http://movies.ign.com/dor/objects/40980 ... 72410.html
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Re: Stories from Comic Con 2010
by ThatRandomGirl » Tue Jul 27, 2010 12:25 pm
Isn't it? I cannot wait!
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Re: Stories from Comic Con 2010
by FlashFookersSqueeze » Wed Jul 28, 2010 11:48 am
from comicbookresources.com
CCI: Cast & Crew Talk "Green Lantern" Movie
by Erik Amaya, Staff Writer
excerpt:
One alien being realized in the flesh is Mark Strong's Sinestro. "He is an incredibly organized, fearless, exponent of the Green Lantern Corps who believes that he knows best. In this movie, he becomes mentor to the newly minted human Green Lantern and basically guides him through his first steps," Strong explained. Though the character will eventually leave the Corps and become an antagonist, he will not be portrayed as a villain in the film. "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 is anything that causes him later on to spill over to the dark side, it's his unquestioning belief in his own rightness," Strong said. Even if the team gets the opportunity to show Sinestro wielding a yellow ring, the actor would still be hard-pressed to call him 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."
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page ... e&id=27502
CCI: Cast & Crew Talk "Green Lantern" Movie
by Erik Amaya, Staff Writer
excerpt:
One alien being realized in the flesh is Mark Strong's Sinestro. "He is an incredibly organized, fearless, exponent of the Green Lantern Corps who believes that he knows best. In this movie, he becomes mentor to the newly minted human Green Lantern and basically guides him through his first steps," Strong explained. Though the character will eventually leave the Corps and become an antagonist, he will not be portrayed as a villain in the film. "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 is anything that causes him later on to spill over to the dark side, it's his unquestioning belief in his own rightness," Strong said. Even if the team gets the opportunity to show Sinestro wielding a yellow ring, the actor would still be hard-pressed to call him 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."
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page ... e&id=27502
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Re: Stories from Comic Con 2010
by FlashFookersSqueeze » Fri Jul 30, 2010 11:59 am
Rebecca Murray at About.com (@becmur on twitter) briefly talked to Mark about his part in the filming of Green Lantern.
Video here: http://video.about.com/movies/Mark-Stro ... antern.htm
Video here: http://video.about.com/movies/Mark-Stro ... antern.htm
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Re: Stories from Comic Con 2010
by FlashFookersSqueeze » Tue Aug 03, 2010 5:43 pm
:53 of Mark talking about the "look" of Sinestro from MTV News via comicbookmovie.com
http://comicbookmovie.com/fansites/Poni ... s/?a=21042
"In another post-Comic Con interview, MTV caught up with actor Mark Strong and managed to confirm his costume in the DC comics adaptation Green Lantern will be completely CGI; just like Ryan Reynolds. Besides the suit, though, Strong sports "prosthetics and makeup from the neck up" to complete Sinestro's look.
"People will be — and I am — really delighted at the fact that they've really made sure that he is as he is in the comics. Because there was a whole production run of ideas of ponytails and goatees and all this kind of stuff, [and] I couldn't really understand why they would want to change it, because it's so successful in the comic."
Regarding the character's comics counterpart, Strong added:
"It's born of the look of David Niven, that mustache and that widow's peak, and I think it would be a shame to get rid of it,"
"I'm delighted, because he looks pretty much exactly like he is in the comic."
another cool thing, if you go to the above page, you'll hear Mark as Frank D'Amico in an ad for the dvd of Kick-Ass.
url for the video alone: http://www.mtv.com/videos/movies/547751 ... like.jhtml
http://comicbookmovie.com/fansites/Poni ... s/?a=21042
"In another post-Comic Con interview, MTV caught up with actor Mark Strong and managed to confirm his costume in the DC comics adaptation Green Lantern will be completely CGI; just like Ryan Reynolds. Besides the suit, though, Strong sports "prosthetics and makeup from the neck up" to complete Sinestro's look.
"People will be — and I am — really delighted at the fact that they've really made sure that he is as he is in the comics. Because there was a whole production run of ideas of ponytails and goatees and all this kind of stuff, [and] I couldn't really understand why they would want to change it, because it's so successful in the comic."
Regarding the character's comics counterpart, Strong added:
"It's born of the look of David Niven, that mustache and that widow's peak, and I think it would be a shame to get rid of it,"
"I'm delighted, because he looks pretty much exactly like he is in the comic."
another cool thing, if you go to the above page, you'll hear Mark as Frank D'Amico in an ad for the dvd of Kick-Ass.
url for the video alone: http://www.mtv.com/videos/movies/547751 ... like.jhtml
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Re: Stories from Comic Con 2010
by FlashFookersSqueeze » Fri Aug 06, 2010 5:45 pm
Mark Strong On Sinestro's 'Green Lantern' Brawls And Fall: 'Initially He's A Heroic Figure'
by Blair Marnell in DC Comics, News 8/6/10
This is another segment of the MTV video interview at SDCC. (see above post)
Back in January, "Green Lantern" director Martin Campbell revealed that Mark Strong was up for the role of Sinestro opposite Ryan Reynolds' Hal Jordan. Perhaps best known for his more recent villainous roles in "Sherlock Holmes" and "Kick-Ass," Strong's hiring was met with general approval from fans of the original comic.
While Sinestro's visual appearance was recently shown to be true to his appearance within the comics, MTV News recently posed the question to Strong as to whether his character would allow his power ring to do most of the work for him or if Sinestro would have a physical part in the action as well.
"Half and half," replied Strong. "You very rightly point out that when we have a scrap together, Sinestro tests Hal initially. And a lot of that, because he's an accomplished Green Lantern, is done through the power of his thought. But there's some physical stuff, too."
Originally created by John Broome and Gil Kane back in 1961, Sinestro was initially Hal Jordan's mentor within the Green Lantern corps before being expelled for going too far with his powers. Early reports indicated that the "Green Lantern" movie will stay true to that story as well, by depicting Sinestro as an ally initially before depicting his transformation into one of Hal's greatest enemies in subsequent films.
"I've read somewhere recently they've already started writing the second one," said Strong. "And I think it does deal with the fall of Sinestro."
Previously, Strong has described Sinestro as "a military guy but [he] isn’t immediately bad. [He's] the kind of person [that] lends himself to becoming bad over the course of the comics being written, but initially he’s quite a heroic figure.”
video here:
http://splashpage.mtv.com/2010/08/06/ma ... lantern-2/
by Blair Marnell in DC Comics, News 8/6/10
This is another segment of the MTV video interview at SDCC. (see above post)
Back in January, "Green Lantern" director Martin Campbell revealed that Mark Strong was up for the role of Sinestro opposite Ryan Reynolds' Hal Jordan. Perhaps best known for his more recent villainous roles in "Sherlock Holmes" and "Kick-Ass," Strong's hiring was met with general approval from fans of the original comic.
While Sinestro's visual appearance was recently shown to be true to his appearance within the comics, MTV News recently posed the question to Strong as to whether his character would allow his power ring to do most of the work for him or if Sinestro would have a physical part in the action as well.
"Half and half," replied Strong. "You very rightly point out that when we have a scrap together, Sinestro tests Hal initially. And a lot of that, because he's an accomplished Green Lantern, is done through the power of his thought. But there's some physical stuff, too."
Originally created by John Broome and Gil Kane back in 1961, Sinestro was initially Hal Jordan's mentor within the Green Lantern corps before being expelled for going too far with his powers. Early reports indicated that the "Green Lantern" movie will stay true to that story as well, by depicting Sinestro as an ally initially before depicting his transformation into one of Hal's greatest enemies in subsequent films.
"I've read somewhere recently they've already started writing the second one," said Strong. "And I think it does deal with the fall of Sinestro."
Previously, Strong has described Sinestro as "a military guy but [he] isn’t immediately bad. [He's] the kind of person [that] lends himself to becoming bad over the course of the comics being written, but initially he’s quite a heroic figure.”
video here:
http://splashpage.mtv.com/2010/08/06/ma ... lantern-2/
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Re: Stories from Comic Con 2010
by FlashFookersSqueeze » Tue Aug 17, 2010 2:46 pm
Mark Strong Describes Timing Of His 'Green Lantern' Scenes, Talks Tomar-Re And Kilowog
MTV Splash Page
by Josh Wigler in DC Comics, News
August 17, 2010
(another segment from Comic Con including video)
While Sinestro will certainly have a big role to play in the "Green Lantern" mythos, it's clear that fans are going to have to be patient when it comes to seeing the purple-skinned and mustached Lantern on the big screen — because, according to Strong himself, he only started working on the set of "Green Lantern" near the end of filming.
"[Most of my scenes are in space], indeed, which is why I've come in at the end of shooting," Strong told MTV News. "Because now we've moved into the studio and into blue screen — obviously not green screen, because Green Lantern would disappear! We're in blue screen, and most of [my work takes place] in space."
But even if it takes some time for fans to get their first glimpse of Sinestro when "Green Lantern" swoops into theaters next summer, they will have plenty of other familiar members of the Green Lantern Corps to keep them distracted.
"Tomar-Re is in [the movie] and it's an amazing look — kind of half-bird and half-fish," described Strong. "Kilowog is in it and he's a massive, great, big bulldog kind of character. There are others, too, but I won't ruin it."
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by Josh Wigler in DC Comics, News
August 17, 2010
(another segment from Comic Con including video)
While Sinestro will certainly have a big role to play in the "Green Lantern" mythos, it's clear that fans are going to have to be patient when it comes to seeing the purple-skinned and mustached Lantern on the big screen — because, according to Strong himself, he only started working on the set of "Green Lantern" near the end of filming.
"[Most of my scenes are in space], indeed, which is why I've come in at the end of shooting," Strong told MTV News. "Because now we've moved into the studio and into blue screen — obviously not green screen, because Green Lantern would disappear! We're in blue screen, and most of [my work takes place] in space."
But even if it takes some time for fans to get their first glimpse of Sinestro when "Green Lantern" swoops into theaters next summer, they will have plenty of other familiar members of the Green Lantern Corps to keep them distracted.
"Tomar-Re is in [the movie] and it's an amazing look — kind of half-bird and half-fish," described Strong. "Kilowog is in it and he's a massive, great, big bulldog kind of character. There are others, too, but I won't ruin it."
http://splashpage.mtv.com/2010/08/17/gr ... e-kilowog/
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