**Advantage: Black ** Ryan Reynolds uses his power ring to fight an evil that preys on his fears. The general public is aware of Green Lantern, often citing lines like "you're the eighth most important superhero" when Jack Black shows up in costume. **Advantage: Reynolds ** The general public is not aware of Green Lantern before Ryan Reynolds shows up in his uniform. Jack Black uses the ring's power to grow his penis. **Advantage: Reynolds ** Ryan Reynolds uses the ring's power to grow as a human being. Jack Black knocks a window washer off of his scaffold for the sole purpose of saving him to impress the woman of his desires, Corrine. **Advantage: Black ** Ryan Reynolds uses his heroism to impress the woman of his desires, Carol. Jack Black's Green Lantern references Spider-Man, the Green Hornet, the Thing, and Superman. **Advantage: Reynolds ** Ryan Reynolds' Green Lantern references Buzz Lightyear and He-Man. Jack Black creates a racecar bed to save a falling Jack Black. **Advantage: Reynolds ** Ryan Reynolds uses his power ring to create a racecar that saves a falling helicopter. Jack Black plays Jud Plato, who is selected to be Green Lantern because of his bravery as a coyote-brain-eating reality show contestant. Ryan Reynolds plays Hal Jordan, who is selected to be Green Lantern because of his bravery as a test pilot. After seeing the finished Green Lantern film and reading Smigel's original draft, we compare Ryan Reynolds' reality to Jack Black's what could have been. This weekend, a serious version of the story about a man with a power ring-who, with it, can create any object that he can imagine-hits theaters with Ryan Reynolds instead of Black playing the title character. But, fearing backlash from the superhero fan community (and the failure of another WB property, Catwoman), Warner Bros. decided to transform the project into a comedy. After flirting with director Kevin Smith, Warner Bros. ![]() ![]() Together, with Black as the star and Smigel-known for his "Saturday Night Live" TV Funhouse sketches and, most notably, the creator and voice of Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog-as the screenwriter, they dared attempt to create a comedic version of Green Lantern. Who were the fiends behind it? Their names were Jack Black and Robert Smigel. Following news that broke in 2004, fans of the superhero genre united against a grave force that threatened to destroy every ideal and principle they had fought so hard to achieve.
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