Summer Blockbusters!

The excitement is killing me! This summer, two (of many) highly anticipated movies will be released; Captain America: The First Avenger and Green Lantern! Being a huge comic book nerd I am very familiar with both characters, and can't wait until I see them on the big screen. Comic book based movies are usually either hit or miss. They either become a really huge success and make fans like me happy (Spiderman, The Dark Knight) or they are a complete failure and anger fans (the 2003 Hulk movie, Electra). The film's success boils down to these factors: the director, the writer and the actors. Captain America: The First Avenger looks super promising. Check out the high def extended trailer here. The director, Joe Johnston, has had great success on the silver screen with titles like Jumanji, Honey I Shrunk the Kids and The Rocketeer under his belt. The screenplay writers are the same duo who wrote the Chronicles of Narnia movies, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. There's not much need to write a story for a Captain America movie since there is so much well written content out there by some of the most creative minds like Jack Kirby, Joe Simon and Ed Brubaker. As an added bonus, Chris Evans (Cellular, Johnny Storm from the Fantastic 4, Lucas Lee from Scott Pilgrim Vs the World) stars as the first avenger and Hugo Weaving (mr. smith from the matrix, V from V for Vendetta, Elrond from LOTR) stars as his arch nemesis, the Red Skull. Green Lantern: The less advertised awesome hero. If you never knew how awesome he is, check out the summer movie trailer here. The director, Martin Campbell is known for Goldeneye, Casino Royale (the better of the two new Bond movies), and the Legend of Zorro. The screenplay writers have a decent portfolio, one of which wrote the screenplay for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. With Ryan Reynolds as the Green Lantern and Mark Strong as Sinestro, you can't really go wrong (maybe you can, but it'd be really hard). They even look the part.

It takes a great deal of work to make these movies happen, so hopefully they do become the blockbuster we all want them to be.