Green Lantern officially has a green light

[tharpdevenport]

I got my details crossed. I am quite unfamiliar with a lot of GL. Most of my knowledge on the character, comes from "The Justice League" (pre JLU).

Anyway, still work is we drop the mentor thing, and make the GL himself someone around her age. I'm tired of all this yuppie teen heroes.

 

[Greg Cox]

Candice Bergen. Cast her.

With Charlie McCarthy as Ganthet?

(Now there's a joke that's going to fly over the heads of the younger folks . . . .)

 

[Bad Bishop]

Candice Bergen. Cast her.

With Charlie McCarthy as Ganthet?

(Now there's a joke that's going to fly over the heads of the younger folks . . . .)

Charlie was always too wooden as an actor.

 

[Anwar]

The actual details of her comics career don't matter. The movie is free to invent their version of Carol. She can be as brilliant and mature as the script requires.

I can agree with this, the recent Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon had Norman Osborn as a brilliant successful supervillain Goblin who took over all of NYC's mobs, whereas in the comics Norman was a failure as a crimeboss. Reinventing a character as more successful can work.

 

[Broccoli]

But at 21, it seems like it is stretching credibility. Being a daddy's girl and having to prove herself during the movie could be a good way to go about it.

It seems that the recent string of DC movies have a tendency to cast their female lead way too young for the character they are playing. Kate Bosworth as a 23 year old accomplished reporter and mother of a 5 year old. Katie Holmes as a 26 year old district attorney in a major metropolitan city in America. I liked them in their respective roles, and I realize they were playing "older", but their young looks were not convincing as "older".

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

^^^
She's almost 23 actually, although I agree with your points overall.

 

[Aragorn]

Candice Bergen. Cast her.

I'm guessing this is a joke post.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I got my details crossed. I am quite unfamiliar with a lot of GL. Most of my knowledge on the character, comes from "The Justice League" (pre JLU).

Anyway, still work is we drop the mentor thing, and make the GL himself someone around her age. I'm tired of all this yuppie teen heroes.

Christian Bale and Robert Downey Jr are yuppie teens?

 

[Broccoli]

^^^
She's almost 23 actually, although I agree with your points overall.

Oh, my bad. I thought I read she was 21. Still, I think I point still stands.

 

[Anwar]

Well, part of Harvey Dent's character is that he was only 26 when he became Gotham's DA. I guess you can chalk it up to what a hellhole Gotham was pre-Batman, or it didn't become a real Large-scale city until Bruce used Wayne Enterprises to expand it.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

Well, Rachel wasn't District Attorney of Gotham. She was an Assistant District Attorney. An ADA in her mid to late 20s actually isn't unrealistic.

 

[Broccoli]

But in a Chicago-like city that the Nolan films portray Gotham as? (I'm not trying to be fan-picky; I just don't know how realistic that would be).

 

[JacksonArcher]

But in a Chicago-like city that the Nolan films portray Gotham as? (I'm not trying to be fan-picky; I just don't know how realistic that would be).

ADA's aren't nearly as attractive as Katie Holmes here in Chicago.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

But in a Chicago-like city that the Nolan films portray Gotham as? (I'm not trying to be fan-picky; I just don't know how realistic that would be).

Marcia Clark, famous (or infamous) as the lead prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson case, joined the L.A. District Attorney's Office at around the age of 28. An ADA in a major city in her mid to late 20s is within reason. Now, it's not realistic that she'd already be one of the top prosecutors working on high profile cases. At that age she'd just be starting out as a prosecutor, working on run of the mill stuff.

 

[AviTrek]

But in a Chicago-like city that the Nolan films portray Gotham as? (I'm not trying to be fan-picky; I just don't know how realistic that would be).

ADA's usually start right out of law school. Assuming you graduate college at 22 and law school at 25, then 25/26 is spot on for a first year ADA. Of course as others have mentioned a first year ADA wouldn't be prosecuting major cases, but would instead be doing research/writing briefs for more experienced prosecutors.

 

[ClayinCA]

Candice Bergen. Cast her.

With Charlie McCarthy as Ganthet?

(Now there's a joke that's going to fly over the heads of the younger folks . . . .)

Charlie was always too wooden as an actor.

But you have to admit, ADR would be a breeze...!

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

Peter Sarsgaard has been case as Hector Hammond.

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

Sinestro not gonna be in this one? Maybe Ron Pearlman can don the red makeup again.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

Sinestro's in it, too.

 

[CaptainCanada]

Sinestro not gonna be in this one? Maybe Ron Pearlman can don the red makeup again.

Perlman's the wrong sort of actor for Sinestro; he typically plays gruff meatheads.

Actually, Victor Garber, who voiced him in the recent animated DVD, would be a good choice for a live-action Sinestro.