Ryan Reynolds will be the Green Lantern

I've been waiting a long time for Reynolds to become a big superstar.  The guy has everything you'd want in a leading actor and he's done a decent job in picking a variety of roles, from the altruistic egotism of 'Van Wilder' to nuanced and self-destructive narcissism in 'Adventureland'.  He was also the best thing in the unfortunate lame-fest that was "Wolverine: Origins'.  But for some reason, the stars haven't really clicked for him.  He did help make 'The Proposal' the #1 film a few weeks ago, but as we all know, romantic comedies suck, in all but the rarest of cases.  

Well, it looks like he may finally have his chance to shine in a big-budget tent-pole film as the Green Lantern, the superhero from DC's underrates comic series of the same name.  Actually it's numerous characters of the same name, but that likely won't show up in the film.  

It seems like the perfect chance for Reynolds to show off his onscreen charisma and finally vault into the cinematic elite.  Of course, the movie could bomb and take his career with it, but I doubt it.  The project is in the very capable hands of director Martin Campbell, who made 'Casino Royale' and 'Goldeneye', the two best James Bond films of the last 25 years.

'The Green Lantern' will probably hit theaters sometime in 2011.  Count me as excited.