The Official Peter Sarsgaard & Hector Hammond Thread

[Doctor Jones]

And you also need to take into consideration. Hammond will have the big ass head. Can you imagine Wilson with that head? Everybody would roar with laughter in the theater.

That's another thing. Don't go Leader sized head. Make it bigger than the average head but not make it laughable.

 

[Octoberist]

hehe. The image of Rainn having a huge ass head made me laugh. He would be the real life Dwight bobble head!

 

[Doctor Jones]

Exactly. No one could take that seriously.

GL being shown his weakness as yellow and Wilson with a big ass head will fail with audiences. It'll be a joke to them.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Apparently, It's never referred to as 'Yellow' though. Just the 'The Impurity'... Which is a good idea.
I liked the idea of Wilson as Hammond for a while but now i've come to my senses.

Leland Orser would be a cool Hammond. Just stick a moustache on him and he's ready to go...

 

[Keyser Soze]

And you also need to take into consideration. Hammond will have the big ass head. Can you imagine Wilson with that head? Everybody would roar with laughter in the theater.

That's another thing. Don't go Leader sized head. Make it bigger than the average head but not make it laughable.

I disagree. I say go to the opposite extreme. Let it grow to a laughable\Leader-sized big head, then keep on going and going with it until it becomes something hideous and grotesque:

Hammond should be a CGI creation by the end.

 

[Octoberist]

I'm against Rainn Wilson because people will not take him seriously because of The Office.

Hector should be a decent looking dude.

 

[protocida]

I'm not a fan of the big head. And Wilson might have auditioned for the role.

 

[Octoberist]

well, i mean...Hector has a huge head. that was always his thing.

 

[Doctor Jones]

It shouldn't be too big. Could it be grotesque? Yes, but first people will have to laugh at it. It just wouldn't pass on film looking like that. It's too much. The audience would only think, 'That's it? His enemy is a guy with a big ass head?"

All I'm saying it don't be surprised if they go with a different look. Maybe it can be bigger in different places, not all over.

 

[Octoberist]

i think it has to be big enough where it's weird looking but not too big to the point where it looks silly.

I think The Leader's head size is good enough. And to be honest, I think this is the closest we'll get to The Leader anyway.

 

[Keyser Soze]

But that's Hector Hammond's whole thing, that's what makes him different from just a generic telepath/telekenetic. He's got a huge, monstrous head, and a tiny, shrivelled, useless body. That's who Hector Hammond is. If they think having a guy with a big head be the villain is too silly, they're as well just not using Hammond.

I'm not saying he should be like that for the whole movie. The idea in the first draft of him [BLACKOUT]starting out normal looking, and getting progressively more deformed until he looks like the pictures above the last time he's seen in the film[/BLACKOUT] works just fine.

 

[Octoberist]

i think it should work fine visually; and Legion does balance things out with the rogue gallery.

 

[Doctor Jones]

But that's Hector Hammond's whole thing, that's what makes him different from just a generic telepath/telekenetic. He's got a huge, monstrous head, and a tiny, shrivelled, useless body. That's who Hector Hammond is. If they think having a guy with a big head be the villain is too silly, they're as well just not using Hammond.

I'm not saying he should be like that for the whole movie. The idea in the first draft of him [BLACKOUT]starting out normal looking, and getting progressively more deformed until he looks like the pictures above the last time he's seen in the film[/BLACKOUT] works just fine.

Oh, yeah I forgot about that in the script. Hmm, maybe it could work then. But when he finally

Spoiler

has the big ass head in the finale

it has to work. This will prove that he is an evil bastard and the audience can't laugh at a guy trying to act evil with a luaghably big head.

But what should be haunting is

Spoiler

when Hammond is in the prison being contained and practically brain dead

 

[That-Guy]

It's strange that GL's most recognizable ememies (Sinestro and Hammond) but have big foreheads and pencil thin mustaches.

 

[Octoberist]

Yeah, I often wondered why that is the case? Big foreheads and mustaches equals evil?

I also wonder why Hector never had...a supervillain nickname.

 

[That-Guy]

Yeah, I wonder what it would be. Bobblehead?

 

[Octoberist]

I disagree. I say go to the opposite extreme. Let it grow to a laughable\Leader-sized big head, then keep on going and going with it until it becomes something hideous and grotesque:

Hammond should be a CGI creation by the end.

Ever since I was a kid, I was terrified of the big headed dudes from The Neverending Story (though they were only background characters). If Hector's head can be scary (and surreal looking), I'm all for it!

 

[Doctor Jones]

Well, are they still scary now to you?

It depends. It has to be a cross of being grotesque and scary. It doesn't matter what he does, if they get it wrong, they're gonna have a laughable villain on their hands.

The GA doesn't think like us. They process what's on the screen in front of them and don't think any further. Not saying that they're stupid, but they just won't think the same way as us. If they laugh the first time they see it, we're doomed. And I can gaurentee you, there will be at least a giggle.

 

[Keyser Soze]

Well, are they still scary now to you?

It depends. It has to be a cross of being grotesque and scary. It doesn't matter what he does, if they get it wrong, they're gonna have a laughable villain on their hands.

The GA doesn't think like us. They process what's on the screen in front of them and don't think any further. Not saying that they're stupid, but they just won't think the same way as us. If they laugh the first time they see it, we're doomed. And I can gaurentee you, there will be at least a giggle.

If the studios were so terrified over putting anything on-screen that might make a non-fanboy viewer snicker, Green Lantern as a project would never have gotten off the ground.

 

[That-Guy]

Ever since I was a kid, I was terrified of the big headed dudes from The Neverending Story (though they were only background characters). If Hector's head can be scary (and surreal looking), I'm all for it!

LOL, those dudes used to freak me out too, along with the giant faces of the Elders of Krypton in the first Superman movie.

 

[Octoberist]

LOL, those dudes used to freak me out too, along with the giant faces of the Elders of Krypton in the first Superman movie.

anything with big head faces/heads scare me!

 

[Webhead2006]

Will be very interesting to see which way they decide to go with hammond and any large head look to him.

 

[Octoberist]

my theory is that he's gonna have a large head, but it won't be as big as those pics above. Maybe near the end when he's in a comatose state but that's it. Maybe make-up can take care of that.

I think what will make Hector creepy is if his body was limp, along with his eyes. If his eyes look dead, then he would be scary.

 

[cerealkiller182]

They could always go with a vein-y head like in Johns Secret Origin arc

 

[Webhead2006]

do u got a pic of that cerealkiller?