Last year’s Green Lantern movie was a pretty big flop. Yes, it brought in slightly more than its 200-million production budget (around 220-million worldwide) but when you account for advertising costs and the money theatres take, the movie was actually a major money-loser (to the tune of over 100-million bucks).
I blame Ryan Reynolds for this. Why? Mostly because I really hate Ryan Reynolds, but also because he’s proven box office poison. Doesn’t matter if it’s a big budget blockbuster like Green Lantern or X-Men Origins: Wolverine, or a wacky comedy like The Change-Up — Ryan Reynolds can and will sink it.
Warner Bros. is hoping to copy the success of The Avengers, meaning they’ll need another Green Lantern flick to set up an eventual Justice League movie, and apparently they’ve already kicked Reynolds to the curb and are starting over from scratch. No word on who’s working on Green Lantern now that the slate’s been wiped clean — maybe Ridley Scott can add another project to the dozen already on his plate.
Personally I strongly doubt Warner Bros. will ever get it together to make a Justice League project happen, but I’m always happy to report on Ryan Reynolds being s–tcanned.
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I will wait here patiently for Patty Boots to see this, and react accordingly.
+1
i’d like to think this means Guy Garnder’s finally gonna get his shot, but i think we all know this means John Stewart is on deck.
or, if they wanna really make the middle states go insane, the newly gay Alan Scott.
Is it me or do all the Green Lanterns have names that sound like characters from “The Office”
I always thought he would be a better Flash (Wally West) than Green Lantern.
With that said, I’m pretty sure that GL and Wolverine: Origins would have sucked plenty even without him thanks to the storylines and special effects.
For serious, you cant blame Origins on RR.
Birch that’s like blaming me for your halitosis.
I’ve been meaning to talk to you about that…
Oh, and you’d be surprised the things I can blame Ryan Reynolds for.
Well you cant blame him for Blade 3! Him calling parker posy a “Thundercunt” was the best (and only good) part of that tragedy.
I gotta say, RR wasn’t the reason Green Lantern sucked. The pacing was off, the story was shit.. It should have been Nathan Fillion, but hey.
He’s a crappy actor, with a crappy sense of entitlement, a crappy set of six-pack abs and he crappily got to stick his penis in Scarlett Johansson.
I’m gonna just go ahead and blame Ryan Reynolds for the Wii-U…
I think Ryan Reynolds was the ONLY good part about GL. Starting with the fact that it had 4 effing screenwriters credited. Who knows if someone else took a whack and couldn’t get it right. And it’s also interesting that “can and will sink it” is the reason that “The Proposal” earned $164 million off a $40 million budget. Way to fact check. Also noteworthy, “Smokin’ Aces”, “Just Friends” and “Van Wilder”. All of these were apparently the Titanic, Britannica and Lusitania of the box office because it would take Robert Ballard to dredge up any sign of them in popular culture nowadays.
Aw damnit, Britannic, not Britannica. The encyclopedia didn’t sink. There goes my credibility too.
Counterpoint — Ryan Reynolds is a giant pile of garbage.
While I’m sure your findings within the scientific community that Mr. Reynolds is a walking pile of refuse must fascinate your colleagues, that “giant pile of garbage” is laughing all the way to the bank. With some of your money I’m sure. So glad to hear that Gamma Squad let the A-Team out on this article.
Even if I agreed RR was a crappy actor (I think he’s fairly average in the skill department and high on charisma), it takes more than a bad lead actor to sink a movie the way GL was sunk.
Snow White and the Huntsman is apparently a pretty decent flick despite Kristen Stewart’s impression of a mannequin throughout it.
Is Blake Lively reprising her role for the next movie? Will they still use CGI masks? Will they bog down the origin “story” with a bunch of pointless fan service that is inaccessible to anyone not already familiar source material?
Because if they keep all that shit. Lawrence Olivier couldn’t save it.