Green Lantern and Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln Movie News

Posted by on Aug 3, 2010 in Movies

I know, what an odd title right.

According to Comic Book Movie, the character of Krona will make an appearance in Green Lantern starring Ryan Reynolds. My first thought hearing this news is either they are already hard at work planning the sequel (good news) or DC is working on the same idea as Marvel. Bring all the characters in for one block buster movie sometime in the future (even better news).

Another day, another Green Lantern filming report. The cast and crew of DC’s next superhero tentpole franchise, Green Lantern, will be filming in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana, tonight. Several streets will be completely closed off to allow room for an Earth-based scene involving the fear entity Parallax and Krona. Longtime readers of DC comics know who Krona is; but for those of you a bit unfamiliar, here is a brief description:

Born on Maltus, Krona is an Oan scientist who became obsessed with observing the origins of the universe itself, despite an ancient legend that said discovering that secret would cause a great calamity. Krona constructs a machine that pierces the temporal barrier and views the beginnings of time itself. Krona catches a glimpse of the hand of creation depositing the speck that would become the entire cosmos. His machine explodes at that instant, and the universe is shattered causing the creation of the Multiverse as the universe replicates into an infinite number of parallel universes. At this same moment, the Anti-Matter Universe is created, unleashing evil into the cosmos; thus, the Monitor and the Anti-Monitor are born. As punishment for this act, Krona is transformed into pure energy by his fellow Oans and is sent to forever wander the cosmos. Krona’s actions are what caused the Oans to become the Guardians of the Universe.

The exact role Krona will play in Green Lantern is still uncertain. Could this be another clue that DC is secretly planning to conjoin their superhero properties into one film universe? Or is this their way of explaining all the different incarnations of their film characters?

While to most of you this news is more along the lines of whats a Krona? To Green Lantern fans this is huge.

Now for some news that’s sort of a bummer…. not sure if you know this or not but Liam Neeson has been locked on to play President Abraham Lincoln for Steven Spielberg in his planned film, Lincoln. If you’ve seen Laim you know this is a near prefect fit.

Sadly word on the webs is that Neeson, while speaking to GMTV, said he won’t be playing the legendary president anymore stating “I’m not actually playing Lincoln now. I was attached to it for a while, but it’s now…I’m past my sell-by date”

First I thought he was saying he’s too old, now I think it’s more “Hey you guys waited to long for me to make this flick”