SCOOP: Clancy Brown Voicing the Villain of This Summer's GREEN LANTERN Movie

By Pietro Filipponi
Published: May 30, 2011 - 4:45pm
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Ryan Reynolds leads a talented cast including Mark Strong, Blake Lively and Peter Sarsgaard in Warner Bros' next live-action superhero film, scheduled to hit theaters this June.

Green Lantern

In a universe as vast as it is mysterious, a small but powerful force has existed for centuries. Protectors of peace and justice, they are called the Green Lantern Corps. A brotherhood of warriors sworn to keep intergalactic order, each Green Lantern wears a ring that grants him superpowers. But when a new enemy called Parallax threatens to destroy the balance of power in the Universe, their fate and the fate of Earth lie in the hands of their newest recruit, the first human ever selected: Hal Jordan.

Hal is a gifted and cocky test pilot, but the Green Lanterns have little respect for humans, who have never harnessed the infinite powers of the ring before. But Hal is clearly the missing piece to the puzzle, and along with his determination and willpower, he has one thing no member of the Corps has ever had: humanity. With the encouragement of fellow pilot and childhood sweetheart Carol Ferris (Blake Lively), if Hal can quickly master his new powers and find the courage to overcome his fears, he may prove to be not only the key to defeating Parallax…he will become the greatest Green Lantern of all.

We've received word that veteran actor Clancy Brown has been tapped to lend his famous voice to Green Lantern's larger than life villain Parallax, the elemental embodiment of fear, who possesses the Guardian of the Universe Krona.

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Over the years, Brown has voiced animated characters many popular projects including The Spectacular Spider-Man, The Batman, Spongebob Squarepants, The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Wolverine and the X-Men, Justice League, Phineas and Ferb and Superman/Batman: Public Enemies.

Brown is also known for memorable live-action roles such as the Kurgan in Highlander and Career Sergeant Zim in Starship Troopers and can next be seen in director Jon Favreau's Cowboys & Aliens. Though we stand behind our sources, Warner Bros has not commented on the validity of this information.

Directed by Martin Campbell and starring Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Mark Strong, Peter Sarsgaard, Tim Robbins and Angela Bassett, Green Lantern is scheduled to hit 2D and 3D theaters June 17th, 2011.

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Win! Clancy Brown has such a great voice for villains. =)

Submitted by InstigatorGIRL on May 30, 2011 - 4:48pm.

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Well, all of those who were complaining about him not voicing Kilowog have to admit that this is even cooler BLAM!

Submitted by Krysalid on May 30, 2011 - 4:52pm.

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LOL no not cooler, but a nice consolation prize Smile I heard a while ago that he was "involved" with the project so I assumed it was for the Wog. Ah well, I'll take it

Submitted by Pietro Filipponi on May 30, 2011 - 5:02pm.

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Although I don't see him as 'the Wog' I do agree, Sparkles, that this is certainly a nice consolation prize.

Submitted by Phinehas on May 30, 2011 - 5:51pm.

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whaaaaaaaaat? now Parallax wil have a voice when i read him in the comics lol

he sure is .......evil lol

Submitted by TorturedXGenius on May 30, 2011 - 5:56pm.

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Great news! I loves me some Clancy Brown. When he's facing off against Hal, Parallax needs to say he is going to kill Hal because "there can be only one!" Or suggest Hal eats at the Krusty Krab. Laughing out loud

Submitted by BigbyBadWolf on May 30, 2011 - 6:22pm.

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Nice Laughing out loud Laughing out loud

Submitted by Miss Suzie on May 30, 2011 - 6:49pm.

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Everthing with Clancy Brown made anything been more bad-ass!

Submitted by Diogo02000 on May 30, 2011 - 7:17pm.

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Haha! That is awesome. Surely this film will be filled with a whole mess of epic voices.

Submitted by Samaritan on May 30, 2011 - 8:20pm.

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Only if we can get lines like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyYOuuRmQp0&feature=related

Submitted by Phinehas on May 30, 2011 - 9:18pm.

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Awesome news. Can't wait to see who's doing the various guardians.

Submitted by casinoskunk on May 30, 2011 - 9:27pm.

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wait...just for the sake of saying it lol he's voicing Parallax the entity...or the 'Krona possessed Parallax' ?

Submitted by TorturedXGenius on May 30, 2011 - 10:12pm.

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TorturedXGenius wrote:

wait...just for the sake of saying it lol he's voicing Parallax the entity...or the 'Krona possessed Parallax' ?

That's a very good question Wink

Submitted by Interesting John on May 30, 2011 - 10:38pm.

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Interesting John wrote:
TorturedXGenius wrote:

wait...just for the sake of saying it lol he's voicing Parallax the entity...or the 'Krona possessed Parallax' ?

That's a very good question ;)

indeed it is sir...i ask the question...those dare not ask lol

Submitted by TorturedXGenius on May 31, 2011 - 1:12am.

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The best news: Parallax won't just be some mindless monster, he has a voice, so we know this won't be as bad as the Fantastic Four version of Galactus.

Submitted by borrorshow on May 31, 2011 - 5:35am.

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borrorshow wrote:

The best news: Parallax won't just be some mindless monster, he has a voice, so we know this won't be as bad as the Fantastic Four version of Galactus.

well the fact that he has a FACE was a good sign in the first place! i'm still hoping that that's krona's face, though... hopefully we'll get to see at least a GLIMPSE of the bug before they show the parallax-n-krona... blend.

another win on the voice front... i too wonder if they're going for all-star here on the guardians and cgi GLs. it seems like at least morro, g'hu, salaak, herupa and ganthet will have a few lines to deliver. and we keep seeing promo stuff for others like isamot, sayd, boodikka, greenie, and more... who KNOWS how many of them will actually speak?!!

Submitted by AlternateNo4 on May 31, 2011 - 6:35am.

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borrorshow wrote:

The best news: Parallax won't just be some mindless monster, he has a voice, so we know this won't be as bad as the Fantastic Four version of Galactus.

well the fact that he has a FACE was a good sign in the first place! i'm still hoping that that's krona's face, though... hopefully we'll get to see at least a GLIMPSE of the bug before they show the parallax-n-krona... blend.

another win on the voice front... i too wonder if they're going for all-star here on the guardians and cgi GLs. it seems like at least morro, g'hu, salaak, herupa and ganthet will have a few lines to deliver. and we keep seeing promo stuff for others like isamot, sayd, boodikka, greenie, and more... who KNOWS how many of them will actually speak?!!

From what I've heard, none of those Corps characters will have more than one line/word in the first film.

Submitted by Pietro Filipponi on May 31, 2011 - 6:37am.

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Pietro Filipponi wrote:
AlternateNo4 wrote:
borrorshow wrote:

The best news: Parallax won't just be some mindless monster, he has a voice, so we know this won't be as bad as the Fantastic Four version of Galactus.

well the fact that he has a FACE was a good sign in the first place! i'm still hoping that that's krona's face, though... hopefully we'll get to see at least a GLIMPSE of the bug before they show the parallax-n-krona... blend.

another win on the voice front... i too wonder if they're going for all-star here on the guardians and cgi GLs. it seems like at least morro, g'hu, salaak, herupa and ganthet will have a few lines to deliver. and we keep seeing promo stuff for others like isamot, sayd, boodikka, greenie, and more... who KNOWS how many of them will actually speak?!!

From what I've heard, none of those Corps characters will have more than one line/word in the first film.

that's good to hear. as an admitted lifelong GL fan i'm supporting a lot of the choices they made with this movie, but even i would have to say that asking viewers to keep track of a dozen alien characters would be asking for trouble. surprised there isn't a bit more give and take with herupa and ganthet though... tv spots made it seem like there was a little bit of a debate going on.

Submitted by AlternateNo4 on May 31, 2011 - 6:46am.

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Only if we can get lines like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyYOuuRmQp0&feature=related

LOL! I love him as Lex. It's the only voice i hear for Lex Luthor when he pops up in the comics i read. But, I know he'll be amazing as Parallax!

Submitted by violetlight on May 31, 2011 - 11:51am.