Green Lantern Press Conference

Superherohype has a transcript up from a great press conference featuring the cast and crew of the film. Below is an excerpt from the article and you can read the full thing by clicking their link above.

It was almost like an audience with the Green Lantern Corps – or maybe the Guardians of the Universe--the way that the cast and filmmakers behind Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment’s Green Lantern assembled on a raised dais before the press to shed some emerald light on how they brought Hal Jordan and company to the big screen.

Stars Ryan Reynolds (Hal Jordan/Green Lantern), Blake Lively (Carol Ferris), Mark Strong ( Sinestro) and Peter Sarsgaard (Hector Hammond) joined director Martin Campbell, screenwriter Greg Berlanti and producer Donald De Line to play it fast and loose when it came to talking about the ring-slinger, and SuperHeroHype was on hand to assemble their thoughts into one big green, glowing conversation.

SuperHeroHype: Ryan, as you got into the comic book mythology what discoveries did you make that you wanted to keep in mind, to make this superhero stand out from the batch of other heroes we've got coming out on the big screen?

Reynolds: Well, a lot of the current iterations of superheroes are a little bit darker and a little bit more serious in tone. The thing that I distilled from diving into that mythology and that universe is that there's a tone that's a little bit different. It's a bit of a throwback in that sense. There's a lot of fun with the character. He's not a character that's overly funny, but he's witty. I always kind of say he's that guy that can throw a punch, tell a joke and kiss a girl. There's something really iconic and fun about that guy because anything is possible with that guy. So, for me, there wasn't any particular narrative or storyline because we were telling an origin story in this film, but it was mostly just tone. It was mostly just finding out who Hal Jordan was, and also distilling what it is that the fanboys who love this character, what it is that they love about him and making sure that can be found up onscreen. If they love it there's a good chance that a broader audience is also going to love it as they're being introduced to this character for the first time.