In an interview with the Onion AV Club to discuss his new film Buried, Ryan Reynolds also talks at length about his role as Green Lantern:
“I’ve said it before that I see the guy like a cross between Han Solo and Chuck Yeager. He’s that kind of archetype. There’s something classic about that, something I don’t think we’ve really seen in the modern superhero film. It’s that kind of ability to walk the line between drama, adventure, and a bit of humor. He’s not like a funny guy, but he’s a witty guy—if that makes any sense at all.”
“What I liked about it was that it’s a story about a character who’s got an issue with hubris and a character fault of arrogance, I think, and he’s bestowed this extraordinary gift, this extraordinary ability, and it’s actually humbling for him.”
He also reminds everyone that all the things he’s said to be attached to lately—films based on Deadpool and R. I. P. D. primarily—are all in-development and a long ways off from him actually singing any papers to star in them.
