Ziz said:
Actors are only typecast in the minds of people who are too lazy or stupid to separate the actor from the character (s)he portrays.

Oh i know i was just being a typical smartass as usual. Just pointing out who the average joe thinks he is if they know of him at all. Those browncoats seem to think he is like the second coming or something, anyhow.

Hollywood generally does not cast unknown's as leads in superhero flicks with the possible exception of a christopher reeve or brandon routhe. Or a mostly unknown to the average popcorn flick goer Christian Bale until he was in batman begins. But the studios had Robert Downey as Iron Man. They cast the hulk remake with that well known actor from the fight club movie.

Okay so i pretty much proved that they usually do cast unknowns or very little known people. Even though the studios claim they only cast stars in their films.

It really has never been a secret that the green lantern corps were a ripoff of E.E. Doc Smith's Galactic Patrol. But then again Lucas borrowed quite liberally from that as well for the jedi in star wars.

The classic green lantern books would make a decent superhero/ sci fi movie. Never read the moderns. I know the originals were supposed to be science fiction. Like magazine pulp fiction that the dime novels and comics used to do only better.