Ryan Reynolds Denies Starring In Green Lantern, Walks Out From Interview When Asked About It

Lovable, goofy, and humorously crass actor Ryan Reynolds is making waves on the internet once again. This time because he did a comedic stint with fellow actor Taika Waititi at the New York Comic Con while promoting their newest film Free Guy. Reynolds and Waititi repeatedly denied having ever worked together on Green Lantern in the past and disappeared the moment their colleagues pressed them further.

Just like Reynolds and Waititi are pretending that it doesn’t exist, Green Lantern is a superhero flick that most of the geek community would simply love to forget. It was one of the biggest let-downs for superhero fans ever and was a financial disaster for DC.

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Ryan Reynolds Denies Starring In Green Lantern, Walks Out From Interview When Asked About It

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Ryan Reynolds Denies Starring In Green Lantern, Walks Out From Interview When Asked About It

Image credits: vancityreynolds

Ryan Reynolds Denies Starring In Green Lantern, Walks Out From Interview When Asked About It

Image credits: vancityreynolds

For some people, Green Lantern as a superhero is a mighty defender of all that is pure and good in the multiverse. Others think that the hero is great, but that the movie was awful. While still others think he’s just a dude with a green lantern and prefer someone like Batman.

Ryan Reynolds Denies Starring In Green Lantern, Walks Out From Interview When Asked About It

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Ryan Reynolds Denies Starring In Green Lantern, Walks Out From Interview When Asked About It

Image credits: vancityreynolds

Ryan Reynolds Denies Starring In Green Lantern, Walks Out From Interview When Asked About It

Image credits: vancityreynolds

Ryan Reynolds Denies Starring In Green Lantern, Walks Out From Interview When Asked About It

Image credits: vancityreynolds

Green Lantern, released in the summer of 2011, received generally negative reviews. Most critics bombarded the film with negative reviews due to its screenplay, inconsistent tone, choice and portrayal of villains, and its use of CGI. The movie was a financial flop at the box office: it grossed 219 million dollars, but took 200 million dollars to produce.

Ryan Reynolds Denies Starring In Green Lantern, Walks Out From Interview When Asked About It

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You can see the full version of the amusing video right here

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Some critics, however, praised Reynolds’ performance as the protagonist. Though Reynolds later himself voiced his dissatisfaction with the movie. For example, while promoting Deadpool, Reynolds said that filming Green Lantern had been frustrating: “You really need a visionary behind a movie like that, but it was the classic studio story: “We have a poster, but we don’t have a script or know what we want; let’s start shooting!”

In the first Deadpool film, there are two references to Reynolds’ time as Green Lantern. One in the opening scene which features a drawing of Green Lantern, and another in a later scene where his character insists that his suit not be “green, or animated!” In Deadpool 2, there is a post-credits scene in which the titular superhero travels back in time to shoot Reynolds before he can make the Green Lantern film.

Free Guy, which comes out in 2020, is a movie about a bank teller who discovers that he’s actually a non-player character inside a “brutal, open-world video game.” Starring alongside Reynolds and Waititi will be Jodie Comer from the thriller series Killing Eve, as well as Joe Keery. Most of us know Keery from the hit TV series Stranger Things where he plays Steve Harrington. [Stranger Things intro song comes on and now it’s stuck in your head for the rest of the day]

Here’s how some people reacted to what Reynolds did

Ryan Reynolds Denies Starring In Green Lantern, Walks Out From Interview When Asked About It

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Bertha Garcia 5 years ago

Was I the only one who liked the movie? Lol

12points

Olivier Caissy 5 years ago

Yes, yes you were.

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Marty BlackEagle-Carl 5 years ago

no,i liked it ... just hated the villians and parallax concept.

4points

Monika Rhodes 5 years ago

I loved it actually.

4points

John Montgomery 5 years ago

No you weren't. I admit it wasn't the best, but I don't think it was near as bad as everyone else makes it out to be. Then again I don't think mustache gate in justice league was as bad as people made it out so maybe I'm biased.

2points

Callie Ge 5 years ago

No, I liked it but I have a thing for bad D grade horror/action movies & mockbusters

1point

Huey89 5 years ago

Spoiler alert!! End credits of deadpool 2 where he kills Ryan Reynolds reading the green lantern script...genius

6points

Lukasz A 5 years ago

Why Every Word In The Title In Boredpanda Begins With Capital Letters?!

5points

Beans 5 years ago

And The Reason Will Shock You! God I hate BPs titles sometimes. We don't neet the 'and feel this way about it here!' it's clickbaity enough already

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Parmeisan 5 years ago

... Because it's a title? That's how titles are supposed to be capitalized. I guess not everyone does it any more, but compare the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/

1point

Marcellus the Third 5 years ago

To be honest, it's a default really. In CSS (like here, website), you enforce it with the {text-transform: capitalize;} attribute --- this means ALL titles will do this consistently. This is the only way to get consistency over many authors (like BP!); [If you'd automatically "only capitalize the first word", it strips capitals off for example names --- which would be far worse.]

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Bertha Garcia 5 years ago

Was I the only one who liked the movie? Lol

12points

Olivier Caissy 5 years ago

Yes, yes you were.

18points

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Marty BlackEagle-Carl 5 years ago

no,i liked it ... just hated the villians and parallax concept.

4points

Monika Rhodes 5 years ago

I loved it actually.

4points

John Montgomery 5 years ago

2points

Callie Ge 5 years ago

No, I liked it but I have a thing for bad D grade horror/action movies & mockbusters

1point

Huey89 5 years ago

Spoiler alert!! End credits of deadpool 2 where he kills Ryan Reynolds reading the green lantern script...genius

6points

Lukasz A 5 years ago

Why Every Word In The Title In Boredpanda Begins With Capital Letters?!

5points

Beans 5 years ago

And The Reason Will Shock You! God I hate BPs titles sometimes. We don't neet the 'and feel this way about it here!' it's clickbaity enough already

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Parmeisan 5 years ago

... Because it's a title? That's how titles are supposed to be capitalized. I guess not everyone does it any more, but compare the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/

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Marcellus the Third 5 years ago

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