"Star-Crossed Box Office Flop: Ryan Reynolds Spills the Cosmic Tea on His Biggest Career Blunder"
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In the world of astrology, where every sign’s energy can light up the Hollywood cameras, one thing’s for sure: nobody likes a Tik, Tik… but on a recent sizzling Aries night (you know, all that fire energy), our very own Ryan Reynolds, a Scorpio by the way, was practically jumping up and down with joy. You know Scorpio is ALL about transforming situations to their own benefit, right? Now, he’s not just our Deadpool but also a football enthusiast – who knew? His club, <a class="anchorlink_6t7IO” href=”https://www.ladbible.com/wrexham-fc”>Wrexham, soared to the Championship, an achievement so monumental it nearly burnt the astrological wheel.
But, speaking of transformation and a need for caution in wild changes, let’s loop back to a not-so-stellar moment in Ryan’s life, shall we? Yes, I’m talking about the 2011 film apocalypse, better known as Green Lantern. With Mercury retrograde, communication and media ventures often hit the skids – and boy, did this film’s earnings skid out. It was one of those projects that made you go, “You can’t have it all… can you?” <p class="texttextnEn66">You can just picture it, Ryan Reynolds, with his Mars-in-Scorpio determination, plunges into the role, only for the film to tank. However, the stars always realign; the film introduced him to his future wife, <a class="anchorlink6t7IO” href=”https://www.ladbible.com/blake-lively”>Blake Lively. Ah, I guess even in flops, we can find our most cherished treasures.LEARN MORE
Hollywood heavyweight Ryan Reynolds may be best known for playing Deadpool, but years prior, the Canadian actor played a different superhero.
Last night (26 April), the 48-year-old celebrated the promotion of football club Wrexham, who he co-owns with Rob McElhenney, to the Championship – making it three promotions in three seasons – the first time a team has ever managed that.
It’s an achievement that the actor is very proud of, but when it comes to moments in his career that he may not look back too fondly on, one film comes to mind straight away.
Released in 2011, the superhero film was where he met wife Blake Lively, so at least Reynolds can reflect on the title with some positivity.
In case you hadn’t guessed, we’re talking about Green Lantern and you can view the trailer here:
Reynolds played the main character, Hal Jordan/Green Lantern, while Lively played his love interest, Carol Ferris.
You may have noticed a couple of digs towards the DC film, which was a box office flop, throughout the Deadpool films, but what does Reynolds really think of it?
While promoting Deadpool & Wolverine, the actor made it clear that he was not proud of Green Lantern in the slightest, going down as one of the biggest box office failures ever.
Grossing just $237.2 million against its $200 million budget, he has labelled the film as a disaster, admitting that the only way ‘to process it’ was to rewatch it.
Speaking in 2023, he admitted at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival: “There was just too many people spending too much money and when there was a problem rather than say, ‘OK, let’s stop spending on special effects and let’s think about character.’”
Adding that they never thought to do that, he said: “And to their credit, it’s a very old school way of looking at things. It’s just ‘Let’s just keep spending our way through this.’ And that was… it didn’t work.”
Green Lantern was a flop in every sense of the word (Warner Bros.)
Reynolds did reveal that along with the 185 people working on the film, everyone on set enjoyed filming it, saying it was ‘a lot of fun.’
“But, you know, sitting in that premiere, watching that… oh my God, it’s tough,” the actor said.
Reflecting on how he felt in the moment, he candidly admitted: “The words were ‘holy s***’ and ‘no, no!’
Saying that he didn’t want to repeat what he felt that day again in his career, Reynolds also explained: “I really spent the following years just owning as much as I could, it was the only way to kind of process it.”
Speaking to People this week, Reynolds revealed that the film is actually his two-year-old son’s favourite movie and that his experience on set is still influencing how he makes films today.
Reynolds has more of a positive outlook on the film nowadays (Jemal Countess/Getty Images for TIME)
With a more reflective tone, he said that he’d ‘learned all the most amazing lessons I could ever have in the creative space from that movie.’
He once again said that they prioritised ‘spectacle’ over everything else, recalling: “I remember suggesting, we could write a scene in the movie where people talk.
“I don’t know. There could be a fun exchange of dialogue. It doesn’t cost anything. And they would say, ‘Just spectacle. Spectacle.'”
He concluded: “I look back now, it’s what really shapes my point of view.”
That might explain why the Deadpool films have an emphasis on dialogue and jokes.
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