July 2010 ~ The Blog of OA

7/29/10

Behind the Scenes Footage From Green Lantern

7/29/2010

The following footage was posted on You Tube for some filming on location in New Orleans. You can hear what sounds like Martin Campbell giving some directions in terms of the tone of what the extras are doing in the scene - and that's running and screaming.

It doesn't appear that any of the major characters were on hand for the scene, leading me to believe that this might be a reactionary shot to something that Hector Hammond is doing.

Audio from Green Lantern Teaser Video

7/27/2010

No comments

MultiPurposePoni from ComicBookMovie.com put the full audio from the teaser footage shown during the Green Lantern panel at the San Diego Comic-con up on their site today. I took the audio and have added footage from a fan made trailer and slides from the promotional art to give you something to look at while your listening to it. We can only imagine how good it looked for those lucky enough to see it until it's either released by Warner Brothers or someone leaks the video that they might have shot. Geoff Johns did say the general population would be seeing something official by the holidays.

WB Releases Green Lantern Teaser Posters

7/26/2010

No comments

After the panel at Comic-con this past weekend lucky fans got to get autographs from the actors starring in the Green Lantern film. Fans were able to get free teaser posters in the autographs line that featured Hal Jordan, Sinestro, Carol Ferris or Hector Hammond.

Today Warner Brothers released those promotional images to the masses. The posters cleverly use the Green Lantern oath as well as the insignia design so that each set of posters can be put together to make a larger image. Also interesting is the use of yellow on the right side of the insignia on Hector Hammond's poster.

Warners Releases GL SDCC Video

7/25/2010

No comments

This one shows some of the San Diego Comic-con Green Lantern panel footage as well as a quick Ryan Reynolds interview at their signing booth.

7/25/2010

No comments

More videos from yesterdays press event continue to hit the Internet, these two interviews with Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively courtesy of MTV. Reynolds address the costume controversy head on.

Movie Trailers - Movies Blog

7/25/2010

No comments

At the Green Lantern panel there was a moment when a young boy asked Ryan Reynolds what it was like to recite the oath. See his response for yourself as well as some great comments from Reynolds on what he sees in Hal Jordan.

Green Lantern: Emerald Empire SDCC Report

7/24/2010

No comments

Geoff Johns

Geoff Johns, Tony Bedard and Pete Tomasi held a panel today, right after the Green Lantern movie panel, to talk about the growing Green Lantern comics franchise. Some new interesting tidbits came out of the conversation about upcoming events in the three GL titles.

Tony Bedard confirmed that the Weaponer, featured heavily in the second arc of his run on Green Lantern Corps, will indeed be the man who forged Sinestro's ring. He will be going after Soranik Natu. The red ring that Atrocitus recently gave Lobo will lead to some problems between Lobo and L.E.G.I.O.N.

Larfleeze will be caught robbing a house as he continues to be possessed by overwhelming greed that he cannot control. Geoff Johns also said that the Orange Lantern oath is not "Mine!" The White Lanterns do have an oath which will be revealed in an upcoming issue of Brightest Day.

The Dex-Starr Valentines Day special will featured the long awaited meeting between the red kitty of rage and Krypto, the Dog of Steel.

7/24/2010

No comments

Mark Strong in makeup

After the Green Lantern panel, cast members held a second event for the press where some more information was revealed about the movie. Mark Strong said that Sinestro and Hal have several one-on-one confrontations during the movie because, as he puts it, "Sinestro tests him because he does not believe a human can handle the Corps."

Strong describes a scene early on in Hal's training where Sinestro and Kilowog are pushing Hal pretty hard and Hal pushes back, leading to a faceoff between the veteran and the new recruit. Oh, and the picture one the right comes from a poster given out at the event showing the first glimpse of Sinestro's look for the movie.

Entertainment Weekly and Fandango had video interviews with the cast, with topics ranging from the appeal of the Green Lantern character to the white glove controversy. You can view the videos by expanding the article.

7/24/2010

No comments

Ryan Reynolds

As I reported earlier, Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively were to join Martin Campbell on stage in San Diego. In addition Mark Strong (Sinestro), Peter Sarsgaard (Hector Hammond), Producer Donald Deline, Greg Berlanti and Geoff Johns also took the stage in what was panel that could best be describe as disappointingly exciting. By that I mean that there was unfortunately very, very little of footage shown, but that most of the comments from the cast and crew left me excited for what's to come.

What makes this particularly disappointing are the high hopes that DC Entertainment, Warner Brothers and fans have for this film and the expectations we had as fans for what we might get to see. And what the people in the room saw went by so fast that no one could really jazzed about the movie. The end result will likely be a lot less hype than the "were going to steal the show" comments from DC before the panel led us to believe.

7/24/2010

No comments

Van Sciver's exclusive cover

Over on Facebook, artist supreme Ethan Van Sciver earlier this week said that he had drawn Reynolds as Green Lantern for a special variant comic cover that would be exclusive to Comic-con. Van Sciver did say that he likes the movie costume.

7/24/2010

No comments

The official logo

More Green Lantern goodness from the San Diego Comic-Con continues to get out to the general public. DC and Warner Brothers have revealed the official movie logo. It looks very cool, although I was kind of hoping to see the modern logo in the film, but that's certainly a non issue compared to all the things that anyone could have complaints about.

But that's not the end of the news leading up to today's big Warner Brothers panel where fans will get to see the first footage from the upcoming film.

7/24/2010

No comments

With the November release of the upcoming DC Universe Online game, Gametrailers TV this morning had the world premiere of the trailer for the game. I've watched it about a dozen times now and I'm still floored by the quality of the CG footage, the voice acting, the music - the whole thing just rocks.

Check it out below or visit the site for the HD version.

Video Games | DC Universe Online | Exclusive Who Do You Trust Trailer HD

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

7/24/2010

No comments

In addition to the other merchandise covered yesterday, the Mattel panel reveled some new action figures in the works for the next year. Notable among them were a new "Green Lantern Classic" figures containing two wave of figures with collect and connect figures that would be in stores in 2011.

Arkillo Collect and Connect figure

One of the waves build a figure is Arkillo, shown at left. Other figures in the line include Kyle Rayner, Guy Gardner, Yellow Lanterns Low and Maash, Black Lantern Abin Sur, Sinestro Corp Mongul, a Manhunter, Black Hand and C'hip.

Chunky figures for kids are part of the "Action League" line that will also debut next year with some Green Lantern figures including Tomar-Re, Arkillo, Atrocitus and more. The Fisher Price Imaginext Line will include a Planet OA playset next year and the slide shown at the convention included Kilowog and C'hip.

Continuing the retro classics line of Mego style figures, including in the upcoming releases that Mattel showed off included a new version of Sinestro with his modern uniform and Guy Gardner.

All the slides from the panel, including those shown in this post, come from Toyark.com and you can view all of them by clicking on the site link.

7/24/2010

No comments

There were more DC panels today and Geoff Johns provided some more Green Lantern tidbits during one of them.

When asked about the mysterious person collecting the various entities and whether or not this person was a character already known in the DC Universe, Geoff responded "maybe" - which usually means "yes". I'm still maintaining that it's Appa Ali Apsa at this point.

Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters Announced

7/23/2010

No comments

As with any big superhero blockbuster movie, fans have expected that there would be a video game to go along with next summer's Green Lantern movie. Today Warner Brother Interactive Entertainment formally announced that "Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters" would be released in conjunction with the movie's release in the Summer of 2011 for the Nintendo DS and all three current gaming consoles.

Here's the official press release:

WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE

ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES

GREEN LANTERN: RISE OF THE MANHUNTERS

Players Continue the Adventures of the Green Lantern Film On Xbox 360®, PlayStation® 3, Wii™ and Nintendo DS™

Burbank, Calif. – July 23, 2010 – Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment today announced Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters an action-adventure title that will be available in conjunction with Warner Bros. Pictures’ epic superhero feature film Green Lantern scheduled for release Summer 2011. The game will be available for Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation® 3 computer entertainment system, Wii™ and Nintendo DS™ and delivers an immersive experience for GREEN LANTERN fans that the entire family will enjoy.

7/23/2010

No comments

Geoff Johns

Day 1 at the San Diego Comic-con brought the DC Nation panel as well as another panel that marked DC's 75th anniversary. Geoff Johns was on hand at both panels, and dished out some information on upcoming events in Green Lantern as well as some comments about the upcoming movie.

Everyone's favorite Red Lantern Dex-Starr sees the Red Lanterns are a surrogate family and there will be more pages given to him and it was hinted that there may be a meeting between Dex-Starr and Streaky. Johns confirmed that he's working on a Larfleeze Christmas special and hinted that there may also be a Valentine's special for Dex-Starr if there's enough interest.

There will be another GL Secret Origin arc and it will be drawn by Ivan Reis.

7/23/2010

No comments

One of the great things about Comic-Con is the ability to see a lot of the collectibles coming out months before they reach your favorite retailer.

Take a look at some of the Green Lantern goodies photographed by all the lucky bums having a great time in San Diego.


Here's a better look at those power batteries

Abin Sur....Revealed!

7/21/2010

No comments

MultiPurposePoni, the guy getting all the big scoops for Comicbookmovie.com is in San Diego for Comic-con and has already put some exclusive photos out while touring the show floor in advance of the show.

Here lies Abin Sur

Poni has scooped everyone again with the first photos of Abin Sur from a display in the Warner Brothers booth. Abin's body lies in state on the showroom floor for everyone to be able to pay their respects. In addition to the photos on their page, Poni also Twittered the photo at right of Abin's corpse.

7/21/2010

No comments

The incredibly cool nerd rock band Kirby Krackle, yes the guys behind the greatest Green Lantern song of all time ("Ring Capacity"), are in San Diego setting up for Comic-Con. And thanks to their uber coolness they've posted a couple of Green Lantern photos from the floor that they snapped and posted on their Twitter feed as they set their booth up.

Kirby Krackle charging up

The first picture they posted was of a really big power battery that is set up near the Mattel booth. With the major movie on its way it's no surprise that Mattel would have a focus on our favorite set of characters.

Rumor has it that Mattel will have not only figures from the movie on display, but a line of DC Universe Classics featuring the Green Lantern Corps.

First Look at Reynolds as GL

7/15/2010

No comments

Tomorrow's issue of Entertainment Weekly features the exclusive first look at the Green Lantern movie, with the first glimpse of Ryan Reynolds in the GL uniform featured on the cover. The image hit the net today in the kickoff of what will be a push to get some initial exposure for the film. More pictures have come to light as today has progressed showing Reynolds as Hal Jordan and some of the rest of the cast.

The cover of Entertainment Weekly

I'll admit that I'm a little surprised by the uniform - I'm torn between the interesting new look and the traditionalist in me who wants to see a more literal translation of GL's iconic uniform from the comics. It's hard not to get so excited by seeing my favorite character brought to life. I mean, it's not like they gave the costume bat-nipples or anything, right?