“Green Lantern” was not loved by fans or criticisms, but he left his main man, Ryan Reynolds, with a life lesson that was essential to his subsequent successes.
“Too much money, too much time exhausts creativity. And constraint is the biggest creative tool you can have,” said Reynolds, 48
Reynolds has portrayed the DC Hal Jordan / Green Lantern comic book superhero in the 2011 “Green Lantern” film. The film also presented the actor to his wife now, Blake Lively, who played his love interest, Carol Ferris.
Ryan Reynolds like Hal Jordan / Green Lantern in “Green Lantern”. Photos of Warner Bros.
However, “Green Lantern” is widely considered as one of the worst adaptations of comics of all time, with a score of 25% of criticism and a 45% audience note on the rotten tomatoes for the revision aggregator. “Green Lantern” won $ 237 million worldwide over a declared budget of $ 200 million.
Reynolds spoke of the gaps in the film, saying to Los Angeles Times in 2016 that he was “fundamentally condemned from the start” due to a script and a weak story.
At the Time100 summit, Reynolds said he had seen “a lot of money” spent on “Green Lantern”, and that the project was finally “just a show”. This achievement was the key to Reynolds.
“The character on the show is the lesson I took with me,” said Reynolds. “Retrospectively, I think it has really changed my point of view.”
Ryan Reynolds like Hal Jordan / Green Lantern in “Green Lantern”. Photos of Warner Bros.
Reynolds had a commercial success with his autonomous film 2016 Deadpool, in which he played the anti-hero Marvel Wade Wilson / Deadpool. The film, which Reynolds spent 11 years developing, obtained a score of 85% of criticism on Rotten Tomatoes and reported $ 782 million worldwide.
The suite of 2018 was received with a similar fanfare, winning a score of 84% of criticism and increasing $ 785 million worldwide.
Reynolds recently resumed the role of the third film, “Deadpool and Wolverine”, which cost Hugh Jackman as Logan / Wolverine. The film scored a note of 78% of criticism and an audience partition of 94% and exceeded $ 1 billion worldwide, becoming the second most profitable film of 2024.
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