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Green Lantern Emerald Knights (DCU Animated Movie) News

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DCAU-Green Lantern Movie

So I just got done watching the Wonder Woman animated movie and was checking out the extras and low and behold they had a preview on the new GL movie!!! And it look great. The voice cast is awesome....

Christopher Meloni (Law/Order-SVU) as Hal Jordan
Victor Garber (Titanic/Alias) as Sinestro
Tricia Helfer (nuBSG) as Boodikka
Michael Madesen (Reservoir Dogs/Kill Bill) as Kilowog

Coming to a DVD store near you this Summer. I can't wait. Any other Corps fans excited?
 
Re: DCAU-Green Lantern Movie

Just to clarify, it isn't DCAU (DC Animated Universe), a label which refers to the continuity shared by Batman: TAS, Superman: TAS, The New Batman Adventures, Justice League/Unlimited, Static Shock, Batman Beyond, and The Zeta Project. The blanket label for the PG-13 DVD movies is DC Universe, or DCU. Bruce Timm is producing them, but they're all in separate continuities from the DCAU and from one another.
 
The main voice cast has been announced for Green Lantern: Emerald Knights, the DC animated DTV movie scheduled for release on the 7th of June. The voice cast includes Nathan Fillion as Hal Jordan, Elisabeth Moss as Arisia, Henry Rollins as Kilowog, Jason Isaacs as Sinestro, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper as Bolphunga, Arnold Vosloo as Abin Sur, Kelly Hu as Laira, and Wade Williams as Deegan.

Lauren Montgomery, Jay Oliva, and Christopher Berkeley are the directors. The movie is an anthology focusing on various GLs with opening and closing segments to tie the pieces together.

Here's the first image released from the movie:

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Casting Fillion as Hal Jordan is pretty cool, considering that awesome fan-made trailer for a Green Lantern movie that had him starring in that same role. That was, of course, before Ryan Reynolds was announced to play Hal in the coming movie.
 
Hmm... that makes three incarnations of Hal Jordan in WB Animation productions to be played by Joss Whedon cast members: Adam Baldwin in Justice League Unlimited, David Boreanaz in JL: The New Frontier, and now Fillion here. (It's not a sweep, though, since others have played the role in other productions, like Christopher Meloni in Green Lantern: First Flight, Loren Lester in Batman: TB&TB, and Nolan North in JL: Crisis on Two Earths.)
 
Actually, when it comes to former Joss Whedon cast members, it seems like they've ALL faired pretty well in other shows... well, except for poor Xander, of course. lol
 
That depends on how you want to define "faired pretty well". SMG and Scooby Doo films? SMG and crappy horror flicks? SMG and blowing off Whedon, who made her?

I don't know. Borwsing her IMDB page just now, I see a bunch of garbage after BTVS, except "Robot Chicken" which I haven't made an opinion on, and "The Air I Breathe" which I know nothing about.
 
tharpdevenport said:
That depends on how you want to define "faired pretty well".
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Well, that would have to mean "done a good job making the connection between two surfaces smooth and even" or "successfully brought rivet holes into perfect alignment." I think the relevant question here is whether they have fared pretty well, i.e. managed or gotten by well.

Well, you asked...
 
Christopher said:
Hmm... that makes three incarnations of Hal Jordan in WB Animation productions to be played by Joss Whedon cast members: Adam Baldwin in Justice League Unlimited, David Boreanaz in JL: The New Frontier, and now Fillion here. (It's not a sweep, though, since others have played the role in other productions, like Christopher Meloni in Green Lantern: First Flight, Loren Lester in Batman: TB&TB, and Nolan North in JL: Crisis on Two Earths.)
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And Josh Keaton will voice him in the GL animated series that will premiere on Cartoon Network later this year.
 
I wasn't intending it as a comprehensive list, or I would've mentioned Kevin Smith in that Duck Dodgers episode.
 
Henry Rollins as Kilowog!!!! What an inspiring choice. Elizabeth Ross as Arisia (one of my favorite female GL's) makes her the second Mad Men actress cast in one of theses (I wonder if it is only a matter of time before Jon Hamm is cast in a future Superman installment? Andrea is probably dying to cast him lol).
 
tharpdevenport said:
That depends on how you want to define "faired pretty well". SMG and Scooby Doo films? SMG and crappy horror flicks? SMG and blowing off Whedon, who made her?

I don't know. Borwsing her IMDB page just now, I see a bunch of garbage after BTVS, except "Robot Chicken" which I haven't made an opinion on, and "The Air I Breathe" which I know nothing about.
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To each his own of course, but I thought The Air I Breathe was good, The Grudge and The Return were very good horror films and Southland Tales was one of the top 10 films of the decade.

Also the Scooby Doo films were dumb fun. You heard it here first, folks!

Back on topic, Henry Rollins as Kilowog really is a great choice.
 
Hmm, if Bolphunga is a character, I wonder if we're getting an animated version of Alan Moore's story, "Mogo Doesn't Socialize." That would be awesome (well, unless you're Alan Moore and yet another DC story you've written is being adapted for a movie/tv show).
 
Admiral_Young said:
Henry Rollins as Kilowog!!!! What an inspiring choice. Elizabeth Ross as Arisia (one of my favorite female GL's) makes her the second Mad Men actress cast in one of theses (I wonder if it is only a matter of time before Jon Hamm is cast in a future Superman installment? Andrea is probably dying to cast him lol).
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As well as Christina Hendricks - who is also a Firefly graduate, as well as a Man Man, er, Woman - playing Lois in a DCAU movie, MM's John Slattery has been Howard Stark in Iron Man 2 and January Jones is to be Emma Frost in X-Men: First Class. If you count Sherlock Holmes as a superhero (and the RDJ version is almost one) Jared Harris will be Moriarty in the sequel. So aside from his SNL turn as Lex Luthor, Jon Hamm is one of the few Mad Men cast not to be in a superhero movie (incidentally, MM also features yet another Whedon alumnus, namely Angel's Vincent Kartheiser).

As well as appearing opposite David Boreanaz, another DCAU Hal Jordan in the Buffy finale, Nathan Fillion co-starred with the live-action incarnation, Ryan Reynolds in Two Guys, A Girl and A Pizza Place. He has also appeared in Desperate Housewives, with former Lois Lane Teri Hatcher and James Denton, who recently voiced Superman opposite the said Christina Hendricks' Lois, and Dana Delaney, who has voiced Lois a few times.

Does this cover the lot?!

PS - am I the only one who thinks that Fillion as Hal and Jason Isaacs as Sinestro would work as well in a live-action movie as Reynolds and Mark Strong?!
 
Interesting choices. And I dig that they're using the character designs from First Flight.
 
Captaindemotion said:
PS - am I the only one who thinks that Fillion as Hal and Jason Isaacs as Sinestro would work as well in a live-action movie as Reynolds and Mark Strong?!
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Fillion and Isaacs were often mentioned in fan discussions for those parts when the live action feature was still being cast, so you're not alone there.

As for so many Whedon alumni being cast in DC animation, Bruce Timm and Andrea Romano are both on record as declaring themselves big fans of Whedon's shows.
 
shivkala said:
Hmm, if Bolphunga is a character, I wonder if we're getting an animated version of Alan Moore's story, "Mogo Doesn't Socialize." That would be awesome (well, unless you're Alan Moore and yet another DC story you've written is being adapted for a movie/tv show).
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I think it's been basically confirmed, if not completely confirmed that Mogo Doesn't Socialize will be included. I know I've at least seen Mogo listed as a GL that will be featured.
 
Bruce Timm has confirmed in an interview that one of the segments does indeed adapt "Mogo Doesn't Socialize". The JLU adaptation of "For the Man Who Has Everything" is the only adaptation of his work that Alan Moore actually liked, so maybe he won't mind this one either.
 
^Heck, I thought JLU's "For the Man Who Has Everything" was a considerably better story than Moore's original.
 
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