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Ryan Reynolds has been cast as the Green Lantern in a new comic book adaptation, according to Hollywood industry magazine, Variety.
Reynolds, 32, recently played the character Deadpool opposite Hugh Jackman in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
If the new deal goes ahead, it would make Reynolds the only male actor to have played heroes for comic rivals Marvel and DC.
Reynolds married actress Scarlett Johansson in 2008.
He is currently starring opposite Sandra Bullock in The Proposal, which topped the US box office.
Bradley Cooper, who stars in The Hangover, and music star Justin Timberlake also did a screen test for the role of the superhero who is armed with a magical ring.
The film is being directed by Martin Campbell, who was at the helm of 2006's Casino Royale.
A spinoff movie for Reynold's Deadpool character is also in development.
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The "Green Lantern" was created in 1940 by writer Bill Finger and artist Martin Nodell. Introduced in 1959, Hal Jordan is a second-generation test pilot, an ordinary man who was given the power ring and battery (lantern) by a dying alien named Abin Sur. When Abin Sur's spaceship crashed on Earth, the alien used his ring to seek out an individual to take his place as Green Lantern: someone who was "utterly honest and born without fear."
Source, Wait srsly... who the hell is Green Lantern?
