Tom Cruise as Hal Jordan?! https://screenrant.com/tom-cruise-g...ctor/amp/?p=1200016&__twitter_impression=true
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Well, if nothing else a lot of Cosplayers will be interested to know they are about 1000x more talented then whoever is doing DC's costuming. I mean, they probably knew that after seeing the Flash's crap suit and basically every costume in Suicide Squad, but at this point the DCEU is officially doing costume work at the level of a mediocre cosplayer. But at least for cosplayers its a passion thing, so even weak efforts usually have heart put into them. WB is the standard souless corporation, and apparently their money can't buy them quality.
Yup, this concludes the debate - cannot be serious. The Suicide Squad that won an OSCAR for its costumes? THAT SUICIDE SQUAD???
Nope. Suicide Squad won the oscar for best make up and hair styling. Fantastic Beasts won beast costume design. They are complete different categories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/89th_Academy_Awards#Awards
Also, even that win was bullshit because Croc was half a body of ok make up mnostly hidden under a hoodie and sweat pants, Harley Quinn was just a rip off of an old musican and Joker was the abolsute worst Joker design ever. Star trek beyond deserved that Make up/hairstyling oscar (which it was nominated for as well) much more.
But, again, that doesn't matter because SS didn't win an award for its costumes, but for its make up.
I've liked a couple of things Tom has done recently, the first Jack Reacher and the sci fi movie (can't think of the name), but it's hard to see this possible move as anything but a box office decision. And to me, that has been one of WB and DC's biggest problem; creating the impression that they put box office in front of quality. This in turn creates bad buzz which seems to destroy a movie's margin for error. Fans seem to be much less forgiving of a movie's shortcomings when they have the impression that the movie's only purpose was to make money.
I wish them luck but this sounds like another big casting mistake.
Yeah, I’d have to agree, much as I really like Cruise as a screen persona (and an underrated actor, IMHO). I would be more excited about this if his role was something like Michael Douglas in Ant-Man - there to pass the baton to a new GL (maybe John Stewart). Given that Tom, while still a bit younger than Mr Zeta-Jones, is in his 50s now, that might allow the franchise more longevity, while allowing his box-office clout (The Mummy notwithstanding) to get it off to a good start.
Please lord, no. I like some of his stuff, but no.
GLC isn't going to focus on one specific Green Lantern - hence the name (Green Lantern Corps) - so bringing Cruise in wouldn't have to be a "long-term investment", as it were.
I used to be impressed by Tom Cruise as an actor, by his total dedication to his work and his willingness to commit to pulling off impressive stunts for real rather than faking them. But while I was watching the behind-the-scenes featurette about the stunts in the upcoming Mission: Impossible movie recently, not long after watching the DVD of Cruise's The Mummy and its bonus features, my perspective shifted, and it started to feel less like a dedicated craftsman committing wholly to his art and more like a really rich and famous guy getting hundreds of people to spend millions of dollars on indulging his midlife-crisis need for thrillseeking. I dunno, maybe I wouldn't have felt that way if The Mummy hadn't been such a bad movie. Or maybe there just comes a point when something that you've seen over and over again starts to lose its value. Tom Cruise doing wild action-movie stunts isn't impressive anymore, it's expected and formulaic.
Of course, in a Green Lantern movie, it's hard to see what kind of big stunt Cruise could do practically, unless he can convince Elon Musk to blast him into space for real.
Of course, in a Green Lantern movie, it's hard to see what kind of big stunt Cruise could do practically, unless he can convince Elon Musk to blast him into space for real.
I'm another big fan of Tom Cruise, but I don't really want to see him in the DCEU or the MCU. He's already got the Mission Impossible movies, and Jack Reacher (maybe, I'm not sure if they're doing more of those) so I'd rather see them go with someone who doesn't already have multiple series associated with them.
My knee-jerk reaction was "Oh, no", but the writer of that ScreenRant article made some really good points. In context with what we've heard about GLC being a buddy cop movie in space with an older Hal Jordan training a rookie John Stewart, then it makes sense to get an actor for the Hal part who the general audience will quickly accept as somebody who's been a superhero for a decade or two, and while he's never played a comic book superhero before, Cruise has "saved the world" often enough to fit that role. Add to that Hal Jordan has a pretty basic superhero personality, and Cruise and his charme make a lot of sense.
Now, I'm not saying that I now totally want Cruise as Hal Jordan. But, in all honesty, why not?!
Now, I'm not saying that I now totally want Cruise as Hal Jordan. But, in all honesty, why not?!
I think the reason Suicide Squad won the Oscar for makeup wasn't so much for the designs they used, but for the consistency. Like how despite Harley getting beat up and stuff they managed to keep the makeup remarkably consistent even in how it smeared and stuff from scene to scene.
I'm just not a fan of Tom Cruise. He's just not a draw for me. In fact Majority Report is the only Steven Spielberg movie that I haven't seen.
How about Ryan Reynolds again for GL? Yes it a different continuity, I get the impression that the Deadpool films are reboots and nothing to do with 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' in which he played (a version of) Deadpool, so maybe he could do the same with Green Lantern.
Tom Cruise should be The Flash, I mean does GL even run?
Same overall continuity, but a different take on the character, so, no, not a reboot.