3/15/2010
Principal photography begins March 15th, with the first shots being filmed at the Old Point Bar in New Orleans. This news joins some late breaking casting news for the roles of Abin Sur and Tom Kalmaku.
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| The Old Point Bar in New Orleans |
According to the On Location website, the Old Point Bar is located near the water, perfect for a Coast City watering hole. Unless the scenes they're shooting represent a dinner scene between Hal Jordan and Carol Ferris from the first draft of the script, this would be a scene created during one of the numerous re-writes the screenplay has undergone since the June 8th, 2008 version leaked on the Internet. My hopes are that this isn't an "Emerald Dawn" inspired DWI scene, but maybe a great bar fight like we saw with a young James Kirk in the "Star Trek" reboot last year.
Further news about the Old Point Bar comes from the Comic Book Movie website where a poster there who hails from New Orleans was able to get a picture of one of the windows before it was covered up. As you can see, the bar is being renamed "Broome's Bar" for the film, and nod to John Broome, the man who created the Silver Age Green Lantern when it was relaunched back in 1959 in issue 22 of Showcase. Hopefully this is the first of many easter eggs scattered throughout the movie for comic book fans to discover.
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| One of hopefully many easter eggs to come |
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| The face of Abin Sur |
In other news, the roles of Abin Sur and Tom Kalmaku have been filled, and not a moment too soon, both actors being from New Zealand. The Hollywood Report Heat Vision blog is reporting that "Star Wars" alum Temeura Morrison, who played Jango Fett, will be portraying Abin Sur in the film. Heat Vision is also reporting that actor/director Taika Waititi (aka Taika Cohen) will be playing Hal's best friend, Tom Kalmaku.
No news has been released regarding the casting of Tomar Re, Kilowog or the Guardians, and that, coupled with the start of filming location, leads me to think that the Earth bound sequences are the first on the filming schedule to allow for the casting search to continue.
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