Green Lantern

2011’s Green Lantern movie was pretty damn awful – and it was a prime example of how DC can so often miscast their actors as comic book superheroes.

Ryan Reynolds is a big star and a decent actor, but he undoubtedly excels in a specific type of role – he should be brilliant in 2016’s Deadpool, for example – and the role of the Green Lantern Corps member Hal Jordan was never going to be one of them.

The cocky quips associated with the actor just didn’t work in the role of Jordan and the movie suffered greatly as a result (it also generally focused too much on special effects). With a Green Lantern movie scheduled for 2020 in the DC Extended Universe, it’s worrying to think how horribly wrong the last attempt went. Even fine actors of the likes of Tim Robbins, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, Michael Clarke Duncan and Angela Bassett couldn’t save it.