Casting is always a tricky bastard to pin down. With the success of Marvel Comics movies, maybe it’s DC’s turn to earn some box office huzzahs by getting real actors to play their comic book legends. Coming soon is the Green Lantern movie and who did they finally get to play Hal Jordan?

It used to be a three-way toss up between Bradley Cooper, Justin Timberlake, and Ryan Reynolds. In the end, the Canadian Reynolds came out on top and a good choice. Reynold’s physique is always superhero worthy. His choice for the Green Lantern role puts a Deadpool spin-off (from X-Men Origins: Wolverine) in limbo.

But seriously, Timberlake in the mix? Jessica Biel has a finer chance in my book. Drawing a six-degrees map, Reynolds’ role in Blade Trinity with Biel comes into mind. So does Reynolds’ wife Scarlett Johanson who’s due to play Black Widow in Iron Man 2. And Cooper and Johanson in He’s Just Not That into You. Anyway, I digress.

Filming for Green Lantern is expected to commence in January with Martin Campbell of James Bond films Goldeneye and Casino Royale at the helm.

Source: Newsrama

Megan Fox aims to be this generation’s Carrie Fisher and some more. Having starred as a subject of a geek’s wet dream in Transformers, she’ll be appearing in yet another movie in the genre. Here she is on the set of the upcoming Jonah Hex film. And if only for getting to see her in a wild west prostitute livery, I’d watch the film.

Jonah Hex is a DC Comic about a scarred former Confederate Army officer in the American Civil war who roams the West with a tattered Confederate Army jacket. Pretty much a story of a guy with a gun who’s life story is so f*cked up. Joining Megan in the film is Josh Brolin as the title character.

Check out a couple of hot pictures after the cut.

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Let’s all check out what DC and Warner has to offer this summer. Coming direct to DVD is Green Lantern: First Flight.

The story focuses on how Hal Jordan becomes the Green Lantern. With him in the story is his own personal Yoda, senior Lantern, Sinestro and the plot thickens when Hal discovers that Sinestro is part of a conspiracy threatening the whole Green Lantern Corps.

The DVD is set to launched July 28, 2009 in the US and will be available as a special edition 2-disc version on DVD and Blu-Ray™ Hi-Def and as a cheaper single disc DVD. But who wouldn’t want the special ed?

View the trailer over at Newsarama.

In my opinion, fighting game cross-overs are so Capcom. I liked them while they lasted. Street Fighter IV is probably the next big fighting game and this latest cross-over by Midway doesn’t seem to appeal to any more than your daily celebrity bikini photo post.

To answer Ace’s question as to whether this MK vs DCU game is a good idea or not, I say, it’s a hell of a bad idea. For one, the franchise just bastardizes both universes’ canon. How can Scorpion defeat f*cking Superman? Well in the game, it seems that Scorpion can since they’ve “normalized” super powers to make it a fighting game. I used to love Mortal Kombat but they lost me in the third installment. Or was it with the movie? I like DC too, but Superman is so cheesy of a superhero that he kind of messes DCU for me.

Anyway, this is pretty straightforward and not even an enticing screen shot leak at all. Scorpion toasting some dude. For more, here’s the trailer after the cut.

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When we hear of the phrase Mortal Kombat, only one thing first comes to mind: Fatality. Even Capcom can admit that this concept featured in MK challenged the supremacy of their Street Fighter.

The Fatality became a major innovation in the genre of fighting games, that it made MK gain its current reputation: it was deemed too graphic and disturbing that it caused major uproars from concerned citizens, especially parents.

Ironically, I think it was also thanks to MK that the ESRB was founded, and the ratings body gave it an M (Mature) rating. This had seemingly stopped MK from being released in the arcades, but it instead spread in the privacies of our homes.

But enough about fatalities: let us deal with the topic at hand, shall we?

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