Columbus Short Turns Down Chance to Play The Green Lantern
Filed under: Action, Casting, RumorMonger, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and Sequels
I'm not sure how many actors need to turn down roles in the upcoming Justice League of America movie before they just to tuck their movie production tail between their legs and run away. Man, they've got to be close. Jessica Biel's turned down Wonder Woman, and they're really having a heck of a time finding interested actors. MTV now reports that Stomp the Yard's Columbus Short, who has got This Christmas and Whiteout on the way, is among those who have turned down the chance.The actor told the site he was up for the movie, having been approached to take on John Stewart/The Green Lantern. But he didn't refuse out of comic disgust. Short says: "Justice League is going to be dope; it's going to be huge. But it's not the movie for me." While he used to be set on becoming the first really big African-American feature film superhero, now he says: "I think there comes a point in an actor's career when he decides what type of actor you want to be. [Each actor] decides: I want to do commercial movies, but do I want to go this way? Or do I want to go that way?" Apparently, he didn't want to don tights and take that route.
The cynic in me wonders if he's just being nice, and would be interested in the role, or a similar superhero role, if it wasn't such a rush-job movie. Whatever the case, he's out, and JLA is back to square one. Will anyone want to be in this thing? Is this a lost cause?
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10-31-2007 @ 7:56PM
Brenda said...
About a week I went to a screening of a film by Marquette Williams in Los Angeles. I saw a great independent film by a passionate and charismatic filmmaker that told an engaging story about child molestation and the social service system in a unique way. The film is a dark thriller focusing on a masked man who takes a family hostage. The reason I was there is because I work in development at a major studio. My boss who was with me decided to pass on the film. Stating it was not black enough, there were no stars and who wants to hear about this type of. For me it was an amazing film. I stated this fact and he scuffed me off. As a black woman I wonder how so many black films that make our men and women look bad get made. Honestly I know why because we will go see any film with our folks on the screen. But we need more directors like Marquette Williams that are making film about black people without telling the world what African-American culture is or is not. We much deeper than the entertainment products we sell at this time and point. We need diverse story lines and diverse points of view of our culture. Please support UNSPEAKABLE and other small films like this. Here are a few links I have found on the web.
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10-31-2007 @ 7:30PM
barbin24 said...
Please for the love of God WB please see the light and don't make this trash. If they wanna make a super hero movie that bad just make a reboot of the Superman franchise because everything I've heard about this so far tells me it's going to suck big time.
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