![]() ![]() “For too many reasons too boring to illustrate, it just didn’t work. “I asked one last time sort of like the groom standing at the alter, ‘Will you please be my wife?’ and they said they couldn’t pull the trigger on Deadpool,” Reynolds said. Reynolds also revealed that prior to signing on for Green Lantern, he wrote a letter to Fox in an effort to get the studio to green light a Deadpool movie, something that had been a passion project for him ever since he played the masked superhero in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan was a great choice for the role of The Green Lantern, the character arc while helping you to understand the character of Hal Jordan. At the time, it was a huge opportunity for me so I was excited to try and take part in it.” It also fell victim to the process in Hollywood which is like poster first, release date second, script last. Sure he’s hit his stride in recent years with Deadpool and Free Guy, but life wasn’t always so easy for People magazine’s sexiest man of the year, 2010. The actor reflected on what went so wrong with the 2011 flop that he co-starred in with his. It’s fair to say that Ryan Reynolds’ career has been a mixed bag. That isn’t to say the hundreds of men and women didn’t work their fingers to the bone to make it as good as possible. Ryan Reynolds has recalled his horror at seeing Green Lantern for the first time at the premiere. With Green Lantern, I don’t think anyone ever figured out exactly what it was. Pictures In March of 2021, Reynolds took to Twitter and explained that he had never actually seen Green Lantern in its entirety, only his scenes. “Well it’s simple: Deadpool always knew what it was. ![]() So, why was Deadpool able to succeed where Green Lantern couldn’t? While speaking to Entertainment Weekly-which recently named Reynolds their 2016 “ Entertainer of The Year"-the actor gave what amounted to an autopsy on the most infamous movie of his career: Instead, the film was savaged by critics, tanked at the box office, and left its star with a five-year career hangover. Prior to the release of the critically acclaimed Deadpool, the once bankable Reynolds was still recovering from a series of flops, most notably, Green Lantern, DC’s ill-fated superhero romp that many believed would cement Reynolds' place atop Hollywood’s leading man hierarchy. The irony of Ryan Reynolds’ sudden career renaissance is that it came thanks to a superhero movie, the same genre that nearly sunk his career five years ago. ![]()
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