Two Kiwi Actors Join 'Green Lantern'

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Two Kiwi Actors Join 'Green Lantern'

Taika Waititi

16th Mar 2010
By Andrew Hedley, Flicks.co.nz

Warner Bros' comic book adaptation Green Lantern now has a huge Kiwi contingent, thanks to the casting of filmmaker-actor Taika Waititi, pictured, and actor Temuera Morrison.

They will join Kiwi director Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, Edge of Darkness) on the 3D feature, which begins filming in New Orleans this week, says Heat Vision Blog.

Waititi, who wrote, directed and starred in Boy (opens March 25) will play the best pal of Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds), the test pilot who comes to wear the super-powered ring of the interplanetary police force known as the Green Lantern Corps.

Morrison, best known to the world as Jango Fett from the Star Wars prequels, is playing Abin Sur, a member of the Corps who is instrumental in Jordan becoming the superhero. i.e. he's the alien who crash lands on earth and gives the powerful ring to Jordan.

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