Well it look like the rumours were wrong… Speaking with MTV News during the press junket for his latest movie, Edge of Darkness, director Martin Campbell dismissed rumors that Watchmen actor Jackie Earle Haley was in talks for the role, revealing that Sherlock Holmes actor Mark Strong is actually in talks to play Sinestro in the Green Lantern movie.
…we’re in negotiations with Mark Strong to play Sinestro. He’s not only a wonderful actor, but he looks like Sinestro. If you look up old pictures of Sinestro, he’s very like him. The Jackie Earle Haley thing, somebody told me about it this morning; I had never heard it before in my life.
If Strong signs on to the film it means he will have a role in not one but two much-anticipated comic book movies, as he also plays mobster Frank D’Amico in Matthew Vaughn’s adaptation of John Romita Jr. and Mark Millar’s Kick-Ass. However, Campbell didn’t stop there, he also discussed which characters from Green Lantern’s universe will be making an appearance in the film:
Well, Kilowog will be. Tomar-Re is in it. Sinestro is in it. Abin Sur is in it. All the origin people. Carol [Ferris], of course, who will be played by Blake Lively. All the main characters are there, and it’s a complex story. The origin story of Green Lantern is complex, probably one of the most complex, which makes it a challenge to get it right.
Strong is not the only actor in negotiations to join the cast of Green Lantern – actor Peter Sarsgaard is also in talks to play the films ‘other’ villain Hector Hammond…
Green Lantern is set to shoot this March in Louisiana.
