By Blackest Night, Green Lantern Uses Deadpool’s Might

These here interwebs were spiraling into a whirlwind of confusion yesterday at the sudden fear of Justin Timberlake taking up the mantle of Hal Jordan in Martin Campbell’s Green Lantern movie. Well those like yours truly who were opposed to the idea can rest a little easier as Variety reports Ryan Reynolds will be donning the green mask and ring.

Even though Nathan Fillion would have been perfect, Reynolds certainly has the chops to pull off the Hal they’re going for and proved himself as the best thing in both The Proposal and some silly Wolverine adaptation earlier this year. It came down to him, Bradley Cooper, and apparently Jared Leto. Leto would have been odd, and Cooper’s got his franchise now.

This project’s already doing a lot of things right in getting a good director and now a strong lead. Let’s hope the script holds up and they deliver another tremendous DC movie. As a devout Green Lantern fan, I’m nothing but excited at the casting news and can’t wait for this thing to hit.

Green Lantern is scheduled for June 17th, 2011 and production to begin in Janurary.