It’s no secret that 2011 Green Lantern The film was a disappointment, something that even its star, Ryan Reynolds, continues to this day. In a recent discussion, Reynolds recalled how bad he felt watching the film for the first time.
Reynolds recently headlined the four-day Just For Laughs comedy festival at London’s O2 Arena, and in a talk with actor and comedian Rob Delaney, Reynolds reflected on what happened with the film. For him, the actor said, it was a combination of people spending “too much money” and “too much time” on the project, without enough time being spent to make sure the film worked well overall. -an.
“There are so many people who spend too much money and when there’s a problem than say, ‘Okay, let’s stop spending on special effects and let’s think about the character,'” Reynolds said (via different). “How do we change this big spectacle thing – which does absolutely nothing – to something based on behavior?’ and that’s not really – the mindset just isn’t there to do that,” he explained. “And to their credit, it’s an old-fashioned way of looking at things. It’s just ‘Let’s just keep spending our way through it.’ And that’s it – it didn’t work. At the same time, there were 185 people working on that movie, they all had an amazing time, we loved shooting it. Actually, shooting the movie was fun. very. But, you know, sitting at that premiere, watching that, oh my God. It’s hard.”
Delaney then asked Reynolds if watching the film for the first time made his “butthole flutter,” to which Reynolds acknowledged that “it’s like a ukelele there,” and not something the actor wants to repeat.
“The words are ‘Holy s—’ and ‘No. No!’” Reynolds said of his initial reaction. “Oh my God, it sounds like a ukelele there. It was crazy. It’s a wonderful feeling. It was not a feeling I wanted to repeat. So I really spent the next few years owning up as much as I could, it was the only way to process it.
When Green Lantern launched in 2011, the film was immediately panned by critics and audiences. While the film made a profit based on its $200 million budget, the mostly mediocre returns at the box office, coupled with poor response, led to the cancellation of a follow-up film.