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It’s all fun and rumors until sources start giving details, and the details are that Chris Pine is being cast as Green Lantern (either Hal Jordan or Guy Gardner) in the new DC Movie Universe. Then there’s the statement that Tyrese will be making an announcement Green Lantern related at SDCC. Of course, being fellow Lanterns of Sector 2814, you know Omar Holmon and William Evans had to weigh in on the rumors. Will: Maaaan, listen, streets are talkin’. Streets out here grumblin’ like a muthafucka. Streets basically got the same scowl on their face that Vince Vaughn got cast to do for True Detective. They say there might, kinda, sorta, maybe be a casting for Green Lantern coming. Willpower personified getting another crack at the flick, man. That’s the good news. Bad news, Hal Jordan gonna fail the weigh-in because he eatin’ ayebody’s lunch, man. Another Hal Jordan flick, b? We got infinite sectors and we going back to the golden boy, again? Are you tellin’ me fuckin’ jokes, bruh? Omar: There’s 7,199 other lanterns to choose from in the series, and about, hmm-mmmm, a good 5 others on Earth. Or I dunno, you could just go with the one everyone is most familiar with after years of being on TV or we just goin’ act like John Stewart ain’t that dude? We goin’ act like we don’t know nobody now? Is that what we doin? Will: John Stewart ain’t just that dude, he’s THE dude. Bruh, John killed a planet with a sniper rifle. Dude maxed out his ring like it was a perk tree in an RPG, bruh. I m…
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