First Footage from GREEN LANTERN is Online!

by     Posted: November 12th, 2010 at 6:08 pm

The first footage from director Martin Campbell’s Green Lantern has hit the net as Entertainment Tonight has released a preview for their Tuesday show.  It appears that on Tuesday, they’ll be world premiering footage from the Ryan Reynolds movie and to get you to tune in, they’ve released 30 seconds from the movie.  If you’ve been waiting to see what Reynolds costume looks like as it’s all CGI, hit the jump.  You’ll also get a look at Blake Lively, another Green Lantern (I won’t spoil who), and you’ll get a taste of the first comic book movie to take place partly on another planet.  What are you waiting for!

Also, the full first trailer will be attached to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 when it hits theatres this Friday. The synopsis is below the footage.  Thanks to Collider reader David for the heads up!

UPDATE: After you watch the clip below, click here to watch the just released official trailer.

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Here’s the synopsis for Green Lantern:

Bringing the enduringly popular superhero to the big screen for the first time, “Green Lantern” stars Ryan Reynolds (“X-Men Origins: Wolverine”) in the title role, under the direction of Martin Campbell (“Casino Royale”).

In a universe as vast as it is mysterious, a small but powerful force has existed for centuries. Protectors of peace and justice, they are called the Green Lantern Corps. A brotherhood of warriors sworn to keep intergalactic order, each Green Lantern wears a ring that grants him superpowers. But when a new enemy called Parallax threatens to destroy the balance of power in the Universe, their fate and the fate of Earth lie in the hands of their newest recruit, the first human ever selected: Hal Jordan.

Hal is a gifted and cocky test pilot, but the Green Lanterns have little respect for humans, who have never harnessed the infinite powers of the ring before. But Hal is clearly the missing piece to the puzzle, and along with his determination and willpower, he has one thing no member of the Corps has ever had: humanity. With the encouragement of fellow pilot and childhood sweetheart Carol Ferris (Blake Lively), if Hal can quickly master his new powers and find the courage to overcome his fears, he may prove to be not only the key to defeating Parallax…he will become the greatest Green Lantern of all.

Campbell directs “Green Lantern” from a screenplay by Greg Berlanti & Michael Green & Marc Guggenheim and Michael Goldenberg, story by Greg Berlanti & Michael Green & Marc Guggenheim, based upon characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics.

The film also stars Blake Lively (upcoming “The Town,” TV’s “Gossip Girl”) as the spirited Carol Ferris, a test pilot and the heir apparent to her father’s aviation company; Peter Sarsgaard (“An Education,” “Flightplan”) as scientist Dr. Hector Hammond; Mark Strong (“Sherlock Holmes”) as Sinestro, Jordan’s powerful mentor in the Green Lantern Corps; Jay O. Sanders (“Revolutionary Road”) as Carl Ferris, Carol’s aircraft designer dad; Temuera Morrison (“Star Wars” Episodes II and III) as Abin Sur, Jordan’s alien predecessor; Taika Waititi (TV’s “The Flight of the Conchords”) as flight navigator Tom Kalmaku, Hal’s good friend and confidante; Academy Award® nominee Angela Bassett (“What’s Love Got to Do with It”) as enigmatic government scientist Amanda Waller; and Academy Award® winner Tim Robbins (“Mystic River”) as Hector’s influential father, Senator Robert Hammond.

The film is being produced by Donald De Line (“The Italian Job”) and Greg Berlanti (upcoming “Life As We Know It”). Herbert W. Gains and Andrew Haas serve as executive producers. Geoff Johns and Lucienne Papon are co-producing.

The film’s behind-the-scenes creative team is led by a number of Academy Award® winners, including director of photography Dion Beebe (“Memoirs of a Geisha”), production designer Grant Major (“The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”), and costume designer Ngila Dickson (“The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”), as well as Oscar®-nominated editor and longtime Campbell collaborator, Stuart Baird (“Gorillas in the Mist,” “Superman”). The film’s visual effects are being overseen by Oscar®-nominee Kent Houston (“The Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen,” “Casino Royale”).

The film is currently scheduled for release in 3D and 2D on June 17, 2011. “Green Lantern” will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

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Comments:
  • Bob

    I hope he isn’t all Van Wilder.

  • Rorschach90

    Oh yeah. I’m getting tingles

  • Migs13

    WHOA!!! Kilowooooog!!!!
    SOOO Hyped for this sh!t!:D

  • Roachj

    The suit will take some getting used to. Can’t wait to see the full trailer.

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  • soundofbrevity

    Wow… what… awful CGI… Jesus christ… I’m guessing it’s… unfinished???

  • Ringbearer1420

    This looks fake and cheesy. Bring on Thor.

  • Dogg

    Hmmm…looks like they’r going for the cheap laughs. If I were a GL fan I’d be very worried.

    • Angmal

      That’s less than thirty seconds from (I’m guessing) a two hours-plus movie. Can’t really judge tone from a few randomly snatched clips on a vacuous show aimed at attracting mainstream non-fans. Plus, the video quality is terrible, so even if some of those effects are finished I expect they’ll be much more acceptable on the big screen.

      • http://twitter.com/robfrenay Rob Frenay

        fair point about the effects but moments in trailers aren’t arbitrarily chosen; there’s an art to cutting together a 2 minute series of short clips from a 2 hour film that most people seem ignorant of. The point of a trailer is to communicate the feel of the movie in a tantalizing way, so it’s likely that those moments of humor are VERY indicative of what we can expect from the film tonally. Granted, trailers often get the tone totally wrong, but I wouldn’t really bet against Dogg in this instance. I am a GL fan, and I am very worried.

      • Army1601

        Really? Did u get wht u expected when u saw the trailer 4 Inception or the Dark Knight? NO it was a million times better, a million times DIFFERENT! So i wouldnt be quick to write off Green Lantern, I mean did we know Inception was gonna be a puzzle from the trailer ??!

      • Superheldclark

        yeah you are right but on the other hand there are more good trailers to bad movies than vice versa!

      • guest

        excuse me but both dark knight and inception trailers were awesome in their own right. green lantern’s trailer just blows with its fake cgi and smart ass reynolds.

      • Army1601

        Really? Did u get wht u expected when u saw the trailer 4 Inception or the Dark Knight? NO it was a million times better, a million times DIFFERENT! So i wouldnt be quick to write off Green Lantern, I mean did we know Inception was gonna be a puzzle from the trailer ??!

      • Stune

        But, it’s not a Trailer. Entertainment Tonight has those things cut together to show off what they want their viewers to see. They gave some nice shots of Oa, and a great shot of Kilowog. If I looked at ETV to see how everything I’d ever been looking forward to, well I’d be one pessimistic moviegoer.

      • http://twitter.com/robfrenay Rob Frenay

        It’s a preview of the trailer that they will be launching on Tuesday; ET didn’t get their pick of footage from the entire film. Whatever footage they showed is footage from the trailer. If your point is that their trailer of a trailer might not accurately represent the tone of the trailer proper because ET’s priorities lie elsewhere, then I suppose you may have something there but that would also mean this conversation has reached a level of recursiveness that is too absurd to continue.

      • http://twitter.com/robfrenay Rob Frenay

        It’s a preview of the trailer that they will be launching on Tuesday; ET didn’t get their pick of footage from the entire film. Whatever footage they showed is footage from the trailer. If your point is that their trailer of a trailer might not accurately represent the tone of the trailer proper because ET’s priorities lie elsewhere, then I suppose you may have something there but that would also mean this conversation has reached a level of recursiveness that is too absurd to continue.

      • Dogg

        “Let’s get these pants off and fly some place”. That reeks of cynical execs writing what they think snot faced comic book nerds want to hear.

        Personally I don’t give a crap about GL–magic rings is where you go when you’re officially out of ideas IMO. But I hate to see any fan base short changed.

      • old soldier

        First I stongly agree with your point about short changing fans. Second, I’ve been to Comicon several times and “Let’s get these pants off…” scenes unfortunatly get the loudest applause.

  • ProfezzorGreen

    IDUNNO IT LOOKS A LITTLE CHEESY, I THINK THEY SHOULDA GAVE THIS TO C. NOLAN

    • Excpired

      Yes, because Christopher Nolan should just direct ALL of our superhero flicks from now on. Because we all know Nolan is God.

      The effects aren’t THAT bad, but hopefully the tone doesn’t seem so strained in the actual movie (in fact the clips almost feel like they are running at 1.5x speed).

      • John

        Chris Nolan should direct all films millions of people hope to be good. He doesn’t need to direct Tyler Perry movies and musicals.

    • Alex

      The guys not morbidly introverted and obsessed enough.

  • InfiniteMonkey

    Holy! Whoa! I need to see more like 2 more bloody hours. LOL!

  • Guest

    CGI looks okay to me, although I think it’s hard to give it a thumbs up or down since the video quality is already pretty low. I kinda like it, but I can perhaps understand the concern with the “smartass ryan reynolds” portrayal of GL, of course it’s only like two lines of dialogue so who really knows if that’s how the whole thing plays out.

  • Jo

    lamest kick ever!

  • Enbee

    The music is the same music from The Last Airbender trailer. Bad omen? I think so.

  • Enbee

    The music is the same music from The Last Airbender trailer. Bad omen? I think so.

  • Anonymous

    If this was a video game, then this would be awesome. Unfortunately, they attempted to try to make a movie like this and failed in the realism department.

  • sense11

    Damn CGI costumes.

    • Alex

      You’d think their CGI had some special seasoning to warrant it, but apparently it’s just hubris and stupidity. Cause that CGI looks second rate.

      Oh well, cgi ain’t everything right?

      The tone sounds silly, but I expected that.

      • sense11

        Agreed, after LOTR & Avatar everybody needs to step up their game in the virtual character department.

  • Bogie

    That looks like shit and very “Van Wilder”.

  • Drmidnite08

    Oh God…

    • old soldier

      Hopfully Dr. you have a persciption.

    • old soldier

      Hopfully Dr. you have a persciption.

  • Drmidnite08

    Oh God…

  • old soldier

    I’m glad to see Ryan Reynolds came back for Waiting 3. Oh wait, that was Green Lantern? Boooo-Hissss…

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  • Anonymous

    “Entertainment Tonight! Number One for a Reason!”

    Then how come everytime I see one of your promos I think of a big pile of Number 2?

  • Eoula Mcdonald

    Watchmen had the same look & feel, and nobody (of general population) knew about that storyline either.

    Watchmen was a box office failure, Green Lantern will bomb also if this preview is of any indication. First trailer is the Litmus test.

    • Email

      But at least watchmen was adapting a book essentially, and trying to capture the books feel, alot of it’s effects and costumes wernt cgi.

      • guest

        watchmen at least had cool cg going for it that made me want to watch even if the story sucked balls. green lantern has neither.

  • Mansoor

    Comparing to “Thor” it Looks Crap

    • jonathan

      haha….yeah right. you wish.

      Thor looks like a smallville episode

      • http://twitter.com/grapenutsrbt Jim Goff

        Seriously? This footage of GL looked more like a Smallville episode than Smallville.

      • http://twitter.com/grapenutsrbt Jim Goff

        Seriously? This footage of GL looked more like a Smallville episode than Smallville.

  • sense11

    Painful

  • Email

    This I karma for Campbell not doing more bonds films. Stick to what your good at, this looks like a step backwards as far a superhero films go.

  • http://www.camdolly.com Richard – The Camera Dolly Guy

    Ryan Reynolds is a very funny guy I’m guessing he’s going to be funny in this movie. Nevertheless when he is “green” it looks a bit fake.

  • Alex

    Although it will be lame, at least it will be entertaining given the director.

    And Ryan has always been good. But seems no way this can now measure up to Batman Begins or the next Superman.

  • Edgydc

    “…and you’ll get a taste of the first comic book movie to take place partly on another planet.”

    Wait a minute, is this a trailer for Superman: The Movie?

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  • Anonymous

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    • old soldier

      Wow, now I can get out of my mom’s basement and marry Natalie Portman. THANK YOU paulliao85!

  • SATAN

    ouch… looks bad…

    • Ace

      Footage of Thor was released but it will be hard to find now I think even in the shakey video that I saw it looked much better than this did. But I’m not ready to pass judgement yet

    • Anonymous

      Very bad! Just fucking nasty bad!!!!!!!!

    • Anonymous

      Very bad! Just fucking nasty bad!!!!!!!!

  • Isamillhouse

    first of all the comics have ryan reynolds charcter a smart ass befor he reaches that planet and realises wat he must do. so quit bitchn bout it from 30 seconds of footage i think it will be good. but im not gonna pass judgment til i watch it oh and to the losers that say bring on thor ….. have ya seen a clip or footage yet ??? No, so shut up

  • Alobar42

    That looked like sh!t! I’m concerned.

  • guest

    oh god, the suit looked so freaking horrible. and the tone is like fantastic four. not a good thing. i thought theyd be going darker/more realistic. put this one right next to wwe’s thor in the suck bin for me.

  • Mluety

    dear god thats going to suck

  • One-eye Willie

    The GL mask makes Ryan Reynolds looks like Ben Stiller!! hahaha
    …and this footage reminds me a lot the terrible, terrible Fantastic Four flick! Bad CGI, dude…

    • old soldier

      Thank you for taking the time and writing hahaha and not lol.

  • http://twitter.com/A5J4DX A5J4DX

    im loving it :D

  • Zeke

    I’m getting bad spider-man vibes

  • PL

    this is gonna be awesome. F*ck the haters!

    • old soldier

      Like Howard The Duck. Duck the haters!

  • Anonymous

    Please tell me I’m not the only one that thinks the CGI was saw there was awful. I posted this a few other places and people got all upset that I said that.

    I think they’re all crazy, it looks like shit from what I saw.

  • Ghostrider83187

    i don’t know why people are getting all mad about them deciding to make the outfit CGI. CGI when done right looks flat out amazing, and honestly, i prefer a superhero outfit that is a manifestation of the bearers body rather than him wearing gay tights like superman. It looks cooler if the suit is a part of his power and being that it is an alien power, for the suit to be like an extension of his power rather than just spandex tights makes it way cooler. Bring it On….maybe they should think about making supermans outfit in this way, a way in which he can just turn it on and off like green lantern does to hide his identity when he doesnt want to be known as his alter ego.

  • Ghostrider83187

    i don’t know why people are getting all mad about them deciding to make the outfit CGI. CGI when done right looks flat out amazing, and honestly, i prefer a superhero outfit that is a manifestation of the bearers body rather than him wearing gay tights like superman. It looks cooler if the suit is a part of his power and being that it is an alien power, for the suit to be like an extension of his power rather than just spandex tights makes it way cooler. Bring it On….maybe they should think about making supermans outfit in this way, a way in which he can just turn it on and off like green lantern does to hide his identity when he doesnt want to be known as his alter ego.

  • Andoc77

    Well… at least it seems they got Killowog right. I’ll have to see a full trailer to form a better opinion of it. But as a huge GL fan, I really, really want this to be good.

  • GQ Monkee

    So, this is the first comic book movie to take place on another planet? So, Krypton doesn’t count?

  • Anonymous

    CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    And I thought the Thor trailer I was able to catch was bullshit. This mofo has fail written all over it.
    Transformers will be better than that crud. OMFG!

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  • Isamillhouse

    yea look you yanks got it wrong again the actual trailer doiesnt have the tone you all thought it had haha fuck i love your niaive and arrogents…. no wonder you people get titled for your stupidity…

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