The Official Mark Strong & Sinestro Thread

[Eddie Dean]

Great manip!

 

[Project862006]

they always should save the arch villain for a sequel. Moriarty, Joker, etc.

this is what makes the iron man franchise so good is with 2 IM films done they haven't even done Mandarin as the villain or the Demon In The bottle Storyline.

 

[TimDrakeRobin45]

thanks!

 

[storyteller]

this is what makes the iron man franchise so good is with 2 IM films done they haven't even done Mandarin as the villain or the Demon In The bottle Storyline.

Until the second film is actually seen, done count your chickens before they hatch. Also no one is considering that the Mandarin may really not make it into the franchise nor demon in a bottle. I have no problem with sinestro being a good guy in this film and later become the bad guy. But I would hate if the final film was him finally being the bad guy.

 

[Chewy]

I can dig it

 

[terry78]

They just showed First Flight on Cartoon Network. That is how you do Sinestro. Not turn him that fast, but that's how he should be portrayed.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

I always imagine Sinestro with a polished, upper class officer's acccent e.g. "Jaw-dan" ... That's how he sounds to me when i read the books.

I'm gonna be a little bit pissed off if Strong doesn't keep is accent in the movie...

He was modelled after David Niven, afterall...

 

[Wesley Dodds]

They just showed First Flight on Cartoon Network. That is how you do Sinestro. Not turn him that fast, but that's how he should be portrayed.

No, I like FF but Sinestro was changed a little bit too much, he feels too much like a corrupt cop... He's more like Denzel Washington in training Day than the imperialistic officer-type that we all know and love...

 

[dnno1]

No, I like FF but Sinestro was changed a little bit too much, he feels too much like a corrupt cop... He's more like Denzel Washington in training Day than the imperialistic officer-type that we all know and love...

I don't love Sinestro. He's a villian. Actually there have been several takes on the character between the comics and the animated film. The phrase "know and love" is all dependent on what period of time you grew up in and wether or not you read the comics or watched him on TV.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

You dont love villains? We arent talking nazis here, comic book villains, just like comic book heroes, are there to be loved... I love Sinestro. he's a great character...

 

[JLU51306]

Here's my photo shop of Mark Strong in the Blue Sinestro outfit:

 

[dnno1]

You dont love villains? We arent talking nazis here, comic book villains, just like comic book heroes, are there to be loved... I love Sinestro. he's a great character...

The were villians too (the nazis). I didn't like them either. My main point was that due to the fact that Sinestro has many incarnations, the term "know and love" is very vague since it would all depend on what version of the charcter one likes, and I am not quite sure if there is a consensus on one particular version.

 

[Breogan]

I read the script and its pretty much how you describe it. So may i ask,

Spoiler

is Legion the embodiment of the yellow energy? I thought that was Parasite. How does this work exactly?

Spoiler

is Legion the embodiment of the yellow energy? I thought that was Parasite. How does this work exactly?

No, that's Parallax.

Legion was a character introduced in Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn, a 90s retelling of Jordan's origin, which appears to be the major influence on the first draft of the movie everyone read.
Legion is the main villain in that story, and is a violent species which was inadvertently almost destroyed by the Guardians, they create a type of hive mind and body known as the creature Legion. As per Emerald Dawn he is the first real battle Jordan faces. Hal helps protect Oa when it attacks, Hal enters the Central Battery taking the power into himself is able to destroy Legion.
The movie first draft took heavilly from this strory.
Geoff Johns however completely dropped this character from his retelling of Hal's origin.

Parallax is the sentient entity that infected Jordan, later revealed to be the "Yellow Impurity" in the Battery. Or as you call it - "embodiment of the yellow energy"
How does it work?
Geoff Johns is all over the place, and less and less consistent the more he tries to explain it.
Supposedly at the dawn of time the Guardians trapped this fear entity in the main Power Battery, (in fact that's why they created the Power Battery, to collect the universes's will-power and trap this all consuming fear entity inside.
Hence the "yellow impurity"/weakness in the Battery, and all the GLs had to be "fearless" in order to use tjhe rings which tap into the battery.
Otherwise they would get infected.
A bajilion years later, at the ruins of Coast City (Hal's home town destroyed by ...I won't get into that here) Jordan upon seeing everything he had known and loved destroyed, willingly allows fear to creep in and overcome him.
Not knowing that fear rushing over him is tainted by the Parallax entity (which is being directed by Sinestro).
Hal allows it in, and becomes possessed thinking he and the entity are one and the same.
During Rebirth, upon learning the truth about the entity, he pretty much crawls back from the dead and helps trap it in the Battery again.
By remembering and honing in on his true worst fear (watching his father die before his eyes) He is able to separate from what is himself and what is Parallax, and (with the help of the reborn Corps) he proceeds to kick it's unholy ass!
Until Sinestro and his Corps break it free, creating the now famous Sinestro Corps.


Parasite is the sentient being in the Central Battery of the Starsapphires.
I won't even touch this one.

I hope that made sense, and I only scratched the surface. Whether the revised script takes more from Emerald Dawn or Geoff Johns' newer Secret Origin remains to be seen. Either way Campbell and crew have their work cut out for them consolidating these two origins.
Especially if they still want to use Legion as a main villain.

 

[hame4479]

they have Ryan Reynolds who is a VERY big name

A big name maybe, but a joke as an actor. The man has very little respect in my book as a serious actor and when he does get serious, the amityville horror, it is borderline laughable. I just hope he can bring a more serious persona and not be a joke. And as far as people questioning Alfred Molinas acting ability you obviously havn't seen chocolat, boogy nights, or frita, becuz the man is a genious.

 

[hame4479]

Molina got his head stabbed with a spear in Raiders of the Lost Ark. "You throw me the idol, I throw you the whip".

I'm ambivalent about Lively, but the rest of this cast seems pretty solid. But I see the point about the need for an "established" actor. Maybe that's the direction to take with Abin Sur or the Guardians?

Like this joker.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

A big name maybe, but a joke as an actor. The man has very little respect in my book as a serious actor and when he does get serious, the amityville horror, it is borderline laughable. I just hope he can bring a more serious persona and not be a joke. And as far as people questioning Alfred Molinas acting ability you obviously havn't seen chocolat, boogy nights, or frita, becuz the man is a genious.

Talk about hypocrite.

You say Reynolds is a joke of an actor? Well go and watch some of his REAL films like The Nines, Chaos Theory, Fireflies in the Garden, Definitely, Maybe and Adventureland.

Seriously, you are just as ignorant as the person you are correcting about Alfred Molina. People who think Reynolds is just a wise cracking goof ball are ****ing idiots, to be frank.

 

[protocida]

Mark Strong's speech pattern in Sherlock Holmes is perfect, methinks.

 

[protocida]

Spoiler

Is Legion the embodiment of the yellow energy? I thought that was Parasite. How does this work exactly?

Spoiler

Before the Guardians of the Universe found the green light of will, they tried to use the yellow light of fear to protect the universe, but it was too strong for them to control and it spread all over the cosmos, infecting creation with fear. The Guardians eventually contained the initial flame and sent it to the Lost Sector, a secret location where they keep their failed experiments (Do I smell Manhunters? ). However, there, the fear became conscient. It lived. It grew shape and form. And it's rage was Legion.

 

[greenlantern248]

I think that the ring should translate but we see it as Sinestro and all of the other aliens are speaking english. Its like what Hal said in GL Rebirth when he knocked Sinestro a ways away he said that Sinestro is yelling at him but he is to far away for the ring to translate. So maybe in the film we can hear Sinestro yelling at some one in the background

 

[JLU51306]

I've gotten a bit of a photo-shop bug, mainly because I'm just learning to use it.

GL Sinestro!:

 

[greenlantern248]

Spoiler

No, that's Parallax.

Legion was a character introduced in Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn, a 90s retelling of Jordan's origin, which appears to be the major influence on the first draft of the movie everyone read.
Legion is the main villain in that story, and is a violent species which was inadvertently almost destroyed by the Guardians, they create a type of hive mind and body known as the creature Legion. As per Emerald Dawn he is the first real battle Jordan faces. Hal helps protect Oa when it attacks, Hal enters the Central Battery taking the power into himself is able to destroy Legion.
The movie first draft took heavilly from this strory.
Geoff Johns however completely dropped this character from his retelling of Hal's origin.

Parallax is the sentient entity that infected Jordan, later revealed to be the "Yellow Impurity" in the Battery. Or as you call it - "embodiment of the yellow energy"
How does it work?
Geoff Johns is all over the place, and less and less consistent the more he tries to explain it.
Supposedly at the dawn of time the Guardians trapped this fear entity in the main Power Battery, (in fact that's why they created the Power Battery, to collect the universes's will-power and trap this all consuming fear entity inside.
Hence the "yellow impurity"/weakness in the Battery, and all the GLs had to be "fearless" in order to use tjhe rings which tap into the battery.
Otherwise they would get infected.
A bajilion years later, at the ruins of Coast City (Hal's home town destroyed by ...I won't get into that here) Jordan upon seeing everything he had known and loved destroyed, willingly allows fear to creep in and overcome him.
Not knowing that fear rushing over him is tainted by the Parallax entity (which is being directed by Sinestro).
Hal allows it in, and becomes possessed thinking he and the entity are one and the same.
During Rebirth, upon learning the truth about the entity, he pretty much crawls back from the dead and helps trap it in the Battery again.
By remembering and honing in on his true worst fear (watching his father die before his eyes) He is able to separate from what is himself and what is Parallax, and (with the help of the reborn Corps) he proceeds to kick it's unholy ass!
Until Sinestro and his Corps break it free, creating the now famous Sinestro Corps.


Parasite is the sentient being in the Central Battery of the Starsapphires.
I won't even touch this one.

I hope that made sense, and I only scratched the surface. Whether the revised script takes more from Emerald Dawn or Geoff Johns' newer Secret Origin remains to be seen. Either way Campbell and crew have their work cut out for them consolidating these two origins.
Especially if they still want to use Legion as a main villain.

Spoiler

Actually Parasite is a Superman villian, the sentient being inside the Star Sapphires power battery is Predator

 

[chamber-music]

Strongs seems good at accents. His done a American accent as pinbacker in Sunshine, South african accent in Endgame and Middle Eastern accent in Syriana and Body of Lies.

 

[craigdbfan]

Not feeling Mark Strong for Sinestro.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

I haven't seen Body of Lies yet. Is it good?

 

[Octoberist]

Not feeling Mark Strong for Sinestro.

really?

trust me. he's the next Gary Oldman. Well not as colorful but he's always been the showstopper even if his roles are small.