That’s presumably Chaselon and Ch’p. Been around since Green Lantern (Hal’s first series) #9 and #148 respectively, which came out in 1961 and 1984. (Ch’p would go on to die in 199…3, IIRC, near the beginning of Mosaic. Chaselon is still alive, though he was thought killed not long after that.)
But since I can’t, for the life of me, catch their appearance, I can’t actually be sure it’s Chaselon. (The only aliens I could get enough of a look at to ID are Tomar-Re, Sinestro, and Kilowog.)
I could have sworn I saw them in the clip linked above, but I think they may have switched videos. That’s really weird.
For a full-blown assault of alieness, I recommend the 1981 three-issue mini-series Tales of the Green Lantern Corps. The covers alone depict the corps in all it’s multi-species glory (with Hal Jordan front and center each time, natch) but, oddly, only a single member (a bipedal lizard-like creature) appears to be left-handed.
I love that they’re introducing the Corps, and of course they’re going to include cameos of everyones’ favorite alien Lanterns. But I would also be a little disappointed if they restricted themselves to already-established ones: They should also throw in a few alien GLs that haven’t already appeared in the comics. The Corps is nothing if not diverse.
But, if it is a social event, you can expect Mogo to not attend.
The level of his power has always been the biggest problem with GL. At one point the ring was described as third most powerful weapon in the universe (no, I don’t remember the first two) but mostly he makes a big fist and punches people with it. Like Superman and even the Flash, GL should win all his battles instantly. If you can see the fight, it’s done wrong.
Of course, that’s impossible for comics or the movies. So the writers destroy continuity by deciding the power level panel to panel. I’ll bet anything that in the movie GL will both move a planet and have trouble knocking out a human.
I’m one of those who thought the trailer looks bad. This Hal Jordan is obviously based on Robert Downey Jr. rather than the old comic book Hal. (According to Wiki they rewrote Hal and Hector Hammond in the past couple of years and I haven’t read any of it.) The rest is so choppy that I’ll bet that 90% of the special effects aren’t done enough to show decent scenes.
I`ve been waiting to see the trailer for a while now… I hope it is worth the wait.
And, I have to say it doesn`t look too bad.
If I have a complaint it is that the one ring construct you see in the trailer doesn`t quite mesh with what I would hope to see. Also, it seems less like Hal and more like Kyle, but oh well. Bonus points for having Kilowog, though.
Isn’t the whole idea that it runs on willpower and imagination? Sometimes a recovering alcoholic really does manage to call it quits after one drink. Sometimes a creative author gets writer’s block. Sometimes you’re well-rested and doing great right up until a couple of major distractions pop up to mess with your concentration. Sometimes you can’t quite focus 100% and just need ONE DAMN CUP OF COFFEE, IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?
I saw Ryan Reynolds in Buried and…well I can’t say that his performance was awesome. Serviceable, yes, but not great.
I don’t think he could carry the weight of a leading role outside of romantic comedy.
I can’t see the trailer myself right now: could they be others from the Green Lantern Corps? It’s made up of mostly aliens. Granted, I only saw them in the animated series with Stewart as GL but surely they existed before then.
The trailer shows plenty of other members of the Corps, including in what appears to be an alien city which I presume is Oa.
Looks Blah. Ryan Reynolds should have made a Deadpool movie first. This one looks like it is going to be too campy. I wasn’t a huge GL fan back in my comic days but I always thought he was a fairly serious guy. RR comes across too fratboyish.
This doesn’t look campy to me. It looks like they’re trying to make it very very much like Iron Man.
Shows some promise - I like the space stuff, and the appearance of the villains and aliens.
OTOH - Blake Lively is the opposite of lively, she’s practically monotonous. I hate the mask (I know, it’s the original shape, but it looks weird, outdated, and cartoonish all at the same time). I thought his sidekick was supposed to be Asian. And the weird texturing on the costume is creepy.
Bottom line - I’ll go see it. But I’ll likely revel in the awesome parts during, and snark afterwards about the lame parts.
How I would do the first movie?
Hal is a hot-shot test pilot who gets the ring without any operating instructions. (The crash of Abin Sur’s spaceship knocks his plane out of the air, and Hal is scanned and pronounced a fit candidate to be a space cop. Abin then dies.) He learns about himself while learning to use the ring to help people (because he is a basically decent person) and by the end of the film he has proved himself worthy of being summoned to Oa to begin his formal training. Fade out with promise of many sequels.
But, no one ever asks me for script treatments.
Actually, Thomas “Pieface” Kalmaku was Eskimo (hence the nickname) or in the modern vernacular, Inuit.
Semi-related, I recall an MST3K episode around “Godzilla vs. Mothra” or some such thing that featured a handsome suave Japanese guy jumping in an out of convertibles and such. The robots assembled a gag reel of his scenes and narrated it like an action movie trailer, calling it “Eskimo Spy”.
Probably not. All Inuit are Eskimos but not all Eskimos are Inuit. If Pieface was from Alaska, Inuit is not the proper reference, since that is pretty much limited to tribes from and in Canada. Whether Eskimo or some other word is best for an Alaskan native is something that gets argued a lot. If he’s Canadian, then he may be Inuit.
Caveat: I suppose there may be Inuits in Alaska, as well. It’s not like there’s an actual border at the border.
From the trailer, it seems that at least two other earthling characters will know GL’s secret identity. During my days of reading comics, the 60’s, the secret identity was extremely important. Whole stories were based on the hero protecting it. In the super hero movie adaptations, this is less so. I think the reason is, in the comics, we could learn what the hero was thinking from thought balloons. In the movies, he needs someone to confide in to relay these thoughts to the audience. Still, it seems a little wrong to me that so many ‘civilians’ are in on the secret.
(Damn, now I want to write a series of interactive Native Alaskan stories. I’ll call them “Yupik Your Adventures.”)