Blake Lively Good? "Green Lantern" Terrible?
Tue, January 18, 2011 Originally Posted On WelcomeToCoastCity.Org
Any time a studio hands a director around 200 million dollars to weave a tale featuring a plethora of action for a summer audience, it is a risk for everybody involved. An article over at Vulture indicates that the sultry Blake Lively might have taken a risk by collecting a pay check to appear in the upcoming Summer blockbuster "Green Lantern".
Vulture was able to pull some quotes from a manager and an agent whom both seemed to be really high on Blake but not so high on "Green Lantern".
Says the manager, "Whatever the mistakes were with Green Lantern, she needs to not react to them and do an indie movie just because a big superhero movie didn't work. It's always about the role and the director. The hotter the person, the easier it is, and she's very hot right now."
The agent adds, "Even though Green Lantern is supposed to be terrible, it doesn’t mean it’s not going to do extremely well and enhance her foreign value. Clash of the Titans was horrendous, but it didn’t slow down Sam Worthington any."
I'm not going to take what a mysterious agent or not to be named manager says to heart and start freaking out about a movie being "terrible", I'll go to the theater and see it for myself. The fact that agent mentions "Clash of the Titans" not slowing Worthington down should be a red flag to anybody. Sam Worthington has been in "Avatar", "Terminator: Salvation", and "Clash Of The Titans" and the general public still has no idea who he is.
I expect "Green Lantern" to make money, I expect Blake to do well in it, and I expect a sequel and her career to take off because of it. However, lets not crown her as the next Julia Roberts quite yet.
Reader Comments (1)
I'm not sure which is harder to believe, that Green Lantern is going to be a horrible movie or that Blake Lively is good in it. Judging from the trailer, she's the one that's going to be horrendous.