Jango Fett Is a Green Lantern
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?Erg… wait a minute… I just gave myself a little nerdgasm akin to Batman wielding a lightsaber at the idea of Jango Fett actually being a Green Lantern. Pffuhh… okay. Okay. I’m done.
Temuera Morrison, who played Jango Fett in Attack of the Clones, has signed on to be alien ring-passer Abin Sur in the Green Lantern movie. I was about to type that I didn’t think much of Morrison’s acting ability in AotC, but then I realized practically no one had a good performance in the Star Wars prequels because George Lucas is a terrible director of actors, so honestly, I have no idea how talented Morrison is or isn’t. Anyways, he’ll assumably be pink. Also, actor/quirky indie comedy-romance Eagle Vs. Shark director/fellow New Zealander Taika Waititi has been hired to play Hal Jordan’s Eskimo buddy Rex Dart Thomas Kalmaku. (Via Hollywood Reporter)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.