Chris Pine fans want him to play Green Lantern after Josh Brolin turns superhero role down
Will Green Lantern’s light shine upon Chris Pine?
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Your support makes all the difference.Fans are calling for Chris Pine to take on the role of Hal Jordan in the forthcoming Lanterns series after it was reportedly turned down by Josh Brolin.
The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that 56-year-old Brolin was offered the role of the primary Green Lantern character in August but has recently decided to pass up on the offer.
It would have been the third comic-book character that Brolin would have played having previously taken on characters like Thanos in multiple MCU movies and Cable in Deadpool 2, a character he wasn’t asked to reprise in recent smash hit Deadpool and Wolverine.
Lanterns would have been his first foray into DC, which is currently being revamped by James Gunn, starting with a new Superman movie, starring David Corenswet as Clark Kent, set to release in July 2025.
No further news on any casting for Lanterns has been announced but fans of the character are keen to see Chris Pine take up the mantle, having previously been linked to the role in 2015.
Now fans are campaigning to see the 44-year-old Don’t Worry Darling star take on the role of the emerald hero once and for all.
One fan wrote in response to news of Brolin’s rejection: “It’s Chris Pine’s time to shine.”
Another said: “BANGGGGGGG NOW OFFER CHRIS PINE.”
A third said: “CHRIS PINE NOW IS YOUR TIME.”
Pine has previously played a DC character having starred opposite Gal Gadot in the first two Wonder Woman movies, playing her love interest Steve Trevor.
This wouldn’t be the first time that a live-action Green Lantern story has been brought to screens having infamously been portrayed by Ryan Reynolds in 2011, in a widely derided movie.
Directed by Martin Campbell, the film stars Reynolds as the DC superhero, and it went on to become one of the biggest box office bombs in cinema history. It grossed just $219m (£182m) from a $200m (£166m) budget and received scathing reviews.
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Speaking at the 2023 Just For Laughs comedy festival in London’s O2 Arena, Reynolds told Q&A host Rob Delaney, with whom he starred in the 2021 film Free Guy, his reaction to seeing Green Lantern for the first time.
Reynolds said: “The words were ‘holy s***’ and ‘no, no!’”
He continued: “It was crazy. It was an odd feeling. It was not a feeling I wanted to repeat. So I really spent the following years just owning as much as I could, it was the only way to kind of process it.”
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