Has Peter Sarsgaard ever been in a bad role? I mean, forget about the movies for a second. Has Sarsgaard ever been weak in a film before? I honestly can’t think of anything. Fresh off his stellar turn in this year’s acclaimed An Education, Sarsgaard is pulling a complete 180 and is in current negotiations to star opposite Ryan Reynolds in Green Lantern. Sarsgaard would play Dr. Hector Hammond, the pathologist son of a senator who is seen as a disappointment in his father’s eyes. He becomes infused with psychic powers when he discovers a meteor. I’ve always wondered how superhero films would handle the “big head” characters. I just alway figured it would look silly, but after the Alice In Wonderland trailer I guess it doesn’t look so bad. /end tangent
Anyway, this is is definitely a sign that Hollywood is taking the superhero genre a lot more seriously in the wake of The Dark Knight. 2011 is already shaping up to be a big year for movies with Thor, Green Lantern, Transformers 3, Wolverine 2, G.I. Joe 2, and Ghostbusters 3 all trying break the summer bank. 2011 will also reboots in Ghost Rider 2, Spider-Man, and X-Men: First Class. Start saving!
-Brian
Source: http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2010/01/peter-sarsgaard-green-lantern.html
Unless Sinestro is made to start off as Hal Jordan's mentor in this intro film for the franchise then I'm not too thrilled about this choice of villain. While Hammond's abilities is comparable to Green Lanterns to a certain degree they could've picked much better enemies for this film if Sinestro was to be saved for later.
Manhunters – robotic race built prior to the Lantern Corps would've made for a nice group of villains with goal to destroy Earth or some such.
Tattoed Man – not as well-known but visually and ability-wise he'd work on the big-screen.
After Heroes and Elektra, I think people are over tattooed villains. I believe Sinestro is in the film, though.
Brian
Yeah, I just read something to that effect over at HitFix. And looks like I was right about how they will handle Sinestro for this film and that will before he turns all sinister yellow and stuff. As for the two examples of tattoed villains you mentioned…they never really were much more than plot device characters.
Green Lantern doesn't really have what you would call a kick-ass rogue's gallery outside of Sinestro, Dr. Polaris and Star Sapphire (they definitely cant make her the villain right away).
I'm with Brian on the "tattoed villains". Even though I don't know much about Tattoed Man, I thnk it would be very hard to come across as cool and the general audience probably wouldn't buy it as easily as anoher villain.
Dennis