Angela Bassett Gets Role In Green Latern Movie!

Angela Bassett Joins 'Green Lantern'

by Elisabeth Rappe Mar 25th 2010 // 9:03AM
It's old and tired history by now, but one of my biggest geek disappointments was that Angela Bassett didn't play Storm in X-Men. She's one of the rare actresses that seems made for action-adventure movies (she kicked some major ass in Strange Days) but never really lands franchise roles. But she may have finally joined one comic book universe, as Variety reports that she has signed on to The Green Lantern.

Bassett will be playing Dr. Amanda Waller, who is a recurring character in a lot of DC books. She's not a superheroine, but a government agent who has headed up her share of superhero teams. She was the boss of the Suicide Squad, a team of former supervillains who took on dangerous missions in exchange for amnesty. She was also the the leader of Checkmate, DC's covert ops agency.

It's an interesting character to pop into Green Lantern, mainly because Waller hasn't played any part in Hal Jordan's storylines that I can remember. She's played more of a part in Superman and Batman stories (she even served under Lex Luthor in his unpleasant term as president) and has popped up in Justice League Unlimited and in Smallville. I imagine those who are fervently wishing for a Justice League movie might see this as hope Warner Bros and DC are going to start tying the universe together, despite what Christopher Nolan says. And who knows? Perhaps you'll be right in the end.

 

it'll be good to see her on screen again

 

Amanda Waller is fat in the comics. They should have got Gabby Sidibe.

 

:smt038

 

Pam Grier is doing a freaking fantastic job playing Waller on Smallville

 

She's too young.

 

Part of me wants to pray that this really is apart of DC's way of pulling together the comic universes of their movies. While I would like to see Christopher Nolan's Batman do a movie with Superman, I don't see it happening. I hear that the next Batman movie is supposed to be the last one that will tie up all of his issues with identity and being Batman. Yet, I've heard that Nolan's brother Jonah, who wrote for Dark Knight and other big movies may be taking the reigns of Superman and rebooting it, calling it 'Man of Steel'. From what I know, he is a bigger fan of the comics than Chris Nolan, so he may stay true to having an open universe in their movies. I'd say if DC wants to compete with Marvel, they'll start connecting their movies in some way, especially movies made with the characters in the Justice League.

 

I just wish they'd have done the John Stewart Green Lantern. I mean, of course they wouldn't have, but it would have been nice.

 

There may be some pictures up, but some information has been leaked that supposedly an ex-military man has been selected to play him in which he'll do a cameo or may actually have a role in the movie, either way he's supposed to be John Stuart. comicbookmovie.com may have some more information on it.

 

Possibly John Stewart, Green Lantern Cameo.

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/Poniverse/news/?a=15929

 

Ha, ha. Yeah, just what I posted! lol. Yeah, hopefully it'll happen. I feel like, more the merrier in these superhero movies.

 

No she's not. That's what they have talent makeup artists for.