The move was rumored and now confirmed, because of the poor economic dollar, Martin Campbell’s “Green Lantern,” film starring Ryan Reynolds has moved its production shoot out of Australia.
The fluctuating global economy is really wreaking havoc in planned productions of late. The Canadian dollar in the last two weeks surged to 97 cents off the American dollar which is already worrying upcoming productions and the Canadian government that has spent millions of dollars to lure lucrative American film productions to its lands (Australia’s dollar is at 95 cents).
THR says the shoot will move to Mexico, the location the shoot was already originally rumored to be moving.
We’ll whip out our old joke: Does this mean Sinestro, the villain of the film, could be played by Diego Luna? Kidding, it would be Gael Garcia Bernal, obviously.
Meanwhile, does anyone think it’s strange that Campbell’s “Edge Of Darkness” with Mel Gibson is coming out in January? No confidence from the studio or are they hoping for another “Taken.” Q1 2010 will be a very interesting season this year. Normally it’s dumping ground time, but due to the unexpected success of “Paul Blart” and the aforementioned Liam Neeson revenge thriller, Hollwyood is planting a few stakes in that ground (“Book of Eli,” “Shutter Island”) in hopes of coming up snake eyes again. Will be interesting to see if it works and that season becomes totally rethought.