The Official Mark Strong & Sinestro Thread

[Lobo]

JEH is Jackie Earl Haley who was rumored for the part a few months back. I want Jon Hamm as Sinestro, though

 

[Mr. Earle]

Thanks for clearing that up. JEH is a great actor but he just doesnt have the pompousness and the physical stature of Isaacs, Hugo or Fiennes.

 

[Brian Braddock]

I honestly can't believe Crispin Glover got any votes

I personally think Jason Isaacs would nail it to the ****ing wall.

My no.1 pick too. Isaacs was simply born to play Sinestro.

Imagine it, Reynolds vs Isaacs. I could definately live with that.

 

[Octoberist]

i pray that we get a guy like Jason Issacs.

 

[Webhead2006]

yea i hope we get a good quality like actor for sinestro too.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Just look at those eyes. And the pure evil, yet still obnoxious, pompous look on his face.

 

[littlerivers]

My top picks would be Isaacs & Weaving. But I'd also like Mark Strong in the role as well.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Isaacs would be cool but I wouldn't mind seeing JEH. But soeone like Isaacs or Weaving would be too predictable. But don't get me wrong, if they're cast, I'm fine with it.

It would be funny to see someone cast that nobody thought of.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

I don't like JEH for Sinestro, to be honest. He's a great actor, but he doesn't have an imposing physique, and I've never seen him display pure, obnoxious, pompous contempt before. When I read the GL comics and see Sinestro, I see Isaacs.

I'm not saying he is the only one who could do the role justice, but for me, he IS Sinestro.

 

[Mr. Earle]

Of course at first Sinestro has to be good. Of course he ll be pompus and all that, but less so than when he becomes evil. Can Isaacs pass for good?

 

[protocida]

Yes. In Peter Pan, he played both Captain Hook and Mr. Darling, Wendy's strict but kind father, very well.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Yea Isaacs can still be a good guy too. He's got a lot of range.

And even when Sinestro is good and heroic, he's still a pompous asshat. His personality itself doesn't really change when he goes from good to evil. He just gets sick and tired of the bureaucracy and kid gloves approach of the Guardians and the Green Lanterns.

 

[protocida]

Not actually. Sinestro might be a little pompous, but he is also very brave, heroic and loyal. It must be clear that what he does, even after he becomes a villain, he does for the well-being of the universe and because he believes that both the Guardians of the Universe and the green light of will are unfit to actually bring justice to the cosmos.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Well that's what I mean. Even when he is this brave, heroic, loyal Green Lantern, he is still pretty arrogant about it. He still considers himself THE best Green Lantern.

And yea when he turns evil, if you can really call it that, he believes he is in the right, and that the bureaucracy of the Green Lantern Corps and the Guardians is to the detriment of the universe.

What I mean is there is no real distinctive change in his actual personality. Apart from the loyal part anyway

 

[protocida]

Ok. t:

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Well that's how I see him anyway. Well I'm agreeing with you

 

[protocida]

 

[Mr. Earle]

Not actually. Sinestro might be a little pompous, but he is also very brave, heroic and loyal. It must be clear that what he does, even after he becomes a villain, he does for the well-being of the universe and because he believes that both the Guardians of the Universe and the green light of will are unfit to actually bring justice to the cosmos.

Yes, you re right.

Well that's what I mean. Even when he is this brave, heroic, loyal Green Lantern, he is still pretty arrogant about it. He still considers himself THE best Green Lantern.

And yea when he turns evil, if you can really call it that, he believes he is in the right, and that the bureaucracy of the Green Lantern Corps and the Guardians is to the detriment of the universe.

What I mean is there is no real distinctive change in his actual personality. Apart from the loyal part anyway

Ditto as well, but i want to comment on the part in bold. He considers himself THE best GL because before Hal he was the best one. So the dude does have a point.

And that brings me to how Hal is treated in his books. I know that the book is called "Green Lantern", but unlike other superheroes Hal is part of a corps. If anything its rather cheesy how he almost instantly becomes the best GL out there and everybody is following him in battle like he is the second coming (especially when he massacred half the universe as Parallax and then destroyed the GL corps). Sinestro is the leader of the Sinestro corps and he actually has control over the rest of the members. But Hal is just another GL and yet he is treated as if he leads them instead of the Guardians.

And that's why i prefer John Stewart. He was just a dude before JL animated but they wrote him really well and the comics picked up on that and actually treated him as more than a piece of cardboard. He is a no bull**** guy and he is just another green lantern doing his job, only the green lantern assigned to earth so the comics tell his story instead of the fish-chicken guy's. He is not a Mary Sue that whenever the universe is in trouble the other GLs will go crying to him asking "HAL PLEASE SAVE US YOUZ DA BEST".

/end of rant. Sorry about that.

 

[Webhead2006]

man i hope we will get a few more names next few days.

 

[Octoberist]

'Green Lantern' announced one villain, but word is Jackie Earle Haley is playing Sinestro'


Everyone's up in arms about "Spider-Man" this week, and I can understand why. It's huge news. But it's certainly not the only superhero film that's gearing up to shoot, and "Green Lantern" is actually closer to a start date, with major casting news breaking in the last week. Obviously, Ryan Reynolds was tapped last year after a very close horse race to play Hal Jordan, whose attempt to help a dying alien at a crash site ends up turning him into an intergalactic superhero.

Then last week, there was an announcement about Blake Lively, who signed on to play Carol Ferris, and then Peter Saarsgard signed on to play Hector Hammond, a dangerous telepath whose contact with an alien force turns him into a major threat against the security of Earth.
One of our commenters posted a simple question: "Why isn't Sinestro in this movie?"

Well... who said he isn't?

I've been making some calls yesterday and today, and what I'm hearing actually confirms some earlier rumors online from October of 2009, when Harry Knowles first ran the word that Jackie Earle Haley was the man who had been tapped to play Sinestro. That rumor was debunked by Frosty at Collider in a face-to-face encounter with Haley, who said he had not screen-tested for the part.

Here's the thing, though... the "Green Lantern" project is overstuffed with characters from the history of the series, with a script that almost reads like a Wikipedia page. One gets the feeling that they're worried about setting up the entire series in this first film. Yes... Hector Hammond is one of the two main villains in the movie. And Sarsgaard is a good choice for the part, in my opinion. There's something disdainful and removed about him, and I think it will serve him perfectly in this part. And Legion plays a significant role in the film as well as another major villain, although I'm not sure how they're going to handle him onscreen.

With Sinestro, don't expect him to stroll in and suddenly be pure evil in this film. And don't expect him to be onscreen for the entire movie. But unless something drastically changes, he is in the film. And I'm hearing that based on the relationship they have with him from "Watchmen" and "A Nightmare On Elm Street," Jackie Earle Haley is the only choice for Sinestro by the studio.

So I'm not going to play a semantics game here... there is a very real difference in meaning between terms like "in talks" and "in negotiations" and "on a list," and I'm not sure where they are in that process right now. But I am willing to say that Haley is the guy. He just wrapped up some additional shooting on "Nightmare" for the studio, and they're said to be extremely happy with his work in the film. The groundwork is being laid in the first "Lantern" for a much larger role for Sinestro later on if this first movie does well, and they like the idea of continuing their relationship with Haley.

I mean, at this point, they've even figured out a way to wedge Alan Scott into the film. This is damn near continuity porn for comic fans, and my once concern is how they'll balance all this fan service with the demands of telling a clear, easy-to-swallow story to the uninitiated. Not everyone walking into the theater is going to have a Sheldon Cooper-esque knowledge of the character and his supporting cast.
But if the film works, expect the sequels to dig deep, and expect the foundation to be in place already.

We'll have more on "Green Lantern" as it begins production in New Orleans this spring.


http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/2008-12-6-motion-captured/posts/is-sinestro-in-green-lantern-after-all

Mori says it still Jackie..

 

[Jake Cassidy]

Cool, if true.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Not cool, not at all.

The STUDIO chooses Jackie? I can see their thinking now.

"Well Jackie was great in Watchmen!"

"Yes he was!"

"But Rorshach is nothing like Sinestro. Sinestro is a pompous arrogant asshat who is physically imposing"

"Oh **** it, Jackie is the hot thing right now"

Jackie is a great actor. But as the swaggering, pompous, obnoxious Sinestro? No ****ing way.

 

[Brian Braddock]

I'm thinking the exact same thing, man.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

And you just KNOW him playing Freddy Kruger has made the studio go...

"He's playing an iconic villain in Freddy Kruger! Let's get him on board as our villain, even though he has displayed no characteristics of our villain, at all!"



Seriously I'm not liking this at all.

 

[Mr. Earle]

Not cool, not at all.

The STUDIO chooses Jackie? I can see their thinking now.

"Well Jackie was great in Watchmen!"

"Yes he was!"

"But Rorshach is nothing like Sinestro. Sinestro is a pompous arrogant asshat who is physically imposing"

"Oh **** it, Jackie is the hot thing right now"

Jackie is a great actor. But as the swaggering, pompous, obnoxious Sinestro? No ****ing way.

I agree. Not only that, but to me he looks a bit weak to be Sinestro. Sinestro needs physical stature, he needs to be imposing and JEH is only 5' 5½".
Even his face doesnt have that Isaacs or Hugo quality of "i am the greatest GL around, you can touch me if you want"