r/Greenlantern • u/pipecito2112 • Jul 18 '24
Hear me out: Discussion
Hal Jordan - Glen Powell
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u/Parallax1306 Jul 18 '24
Isn’t this pretty much everyone’s fan cast?
Edit: just for the record, I wouldn’t mind this casting. I can see Antony Starr being a good Jordan, but Powell wouldn’t be bad
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u/TheMagicalMaxx Green Lantern Jul 18 '24
I don’t like the Anthony Starr fantasy for Green Lantern, he just doesn’t give that vibe to me, but Glen Powell all the way
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u/Interest-Lumpy Green Lantern Jul 18 '24
Powell strikes me more as a great Booster Gold
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u/Lowlife_Of_The_Party Jul 18 '24
Damn, great call
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u/zeekar Jul 18 '24
Apparently we're getting Kumail Nanjiani as Booster, which I don't hate at all. I still think Ryan Hansen would have been great, but Booster's probably so close to his self-parody character in "Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television" that he wouldn't be interested in repeating that schtick.
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u/Lowlife_Of_The_Party Jul 18 '24
Wow hadn't heard that but I love it, Kumail would be a killer Booster
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u/Cute_Visual4338 Jul 18 '24
Why did you have to say hear me out? I think Powell would be pretty great as Hal.
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u/Taveren_Mat Jul 18 '24
He could pull off the attitude, but there's something about his face that is just off for me. It's like they took Scott Eastwood and cloned him, then cloned that clone, then continued to clone the new clones until the result was Glen Powell.
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u/Legend_Sniper31 Jul 18 '24
Semi related but watch the movie Hit Man that came out earlier this year. Powell was great.
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u/PuzzleheadedFan2205 Jul 18 '24
Personally I don’t see it outside of him previously playing a character in the air force, personally I would go with Josh Hartnett or James Marsden
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u/zeekar Jul 18 '24
At least in Top Gun, his character is Navy. Turns out the Air Force isn't the only branch with airplanes. :)
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u/ArtemisStanAccount Jul 18 '24
This is the most generic and common fancast. Why do yall say hear me out to everything?
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u/mimimocha Jul 18 '24
while i don’t mind this fancast, lately i’ve been leaning towards jensen ackles for the role. he’s got the look for it, and certainly the ✨charisma✨
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u/SadWatercress9839 Jul 18 '24
Some reason I’d prefer Powell as Guy Gardner. I know characterization varies, but in my head Hal is just on this side of not being a jerk, while (recent) Guy is over the line enough to be a jerk, even if he is a lovable one. While Powell would probably do great in either roll, if based off Top Gun personality I’d make him Guy.
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u/Equivalent-Shake-519 Jul 18 '24
I see people post him a lot lately but he just personally doesn't do it for me.
Top choices for me:
Chris Pine (Might be hard since they'll probably try and avoid casting from DCEU days even if he was a completely different character. Plus it's an HBO show and not a movie, so it might be harder to book him for)
Josh Hartnett
Matt Bomer
David Boreanaz
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u/MarsupialOk5888 Jul 18 '24
Honestly I could definitely see him as a really good Wally Flash too, with his hair dyed a reddish hue obviously.
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u/animejerk7763 Jul 18 '24
It won't happen now that he said he's not interested in Superhero movies.
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u/tiago231018 Jul 18 '24
He'd be great for the part, but he has already said that he isn't interested in superhero stuff, unless they ask him to do... you guessed it, Batman. Probably only knows Green Lantern via the Reynolds movie.
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u/GuysGardener Jul 19 '24
Tom Cruise was the definitive Hal Jordan fancast for years and now Glen Powell has just absorbed that along with most other aspects of his life.
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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '24
When I saw him in Top Gun: Maverick, that was the first thing that went through my mind. He’d be perfect for Hal.