Yes, yes, we know that Ryan Reynolds is going to be slipping into Hal Jordan's flightsuit for the upcoming Green Lantern movie but (to steal a title) what if the current Green Lantern comic had been cast in the 1980s?
Who'd be donning the GL suit then?
Easy: Sam Shepard's performance as fearless test pilot Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff more than proved that he'd be a perfect fit for fearless test pilot-turned-intergalactic-cop Hal Jordan.
But every character needs a thorn in his side, and just as Dennis Quaid's Gordo Cooper - also in The Right Stuff - butted heads with just about everyone he came into contact with, so would his Guy Gardner.
She might be crazier than a bagful of ferrets, but there's no denying that Sean Young would bring an element of class to Carol Ferris - just as long as she kept her Catwoman costume out of the equation.
Then again, every man should have a choice between blonde and brunette, so why not have Kelly Preston sashay into Cowgirl's boots and suit up as a fighter pilot too?
If I had my way, of course, a GL movie would also feature John Stewart - and who better to play him than 80s tough guy Carl Weathers?
And as we're talking Predator, I'm going to throw in pre-Governor Jesse Ventura in there as Kilowog to boot.
Unfortunately I couldn't think of any Inuit actors, but if we recast Hal's engineer Tom Kamalku as an Asian American, I can't think of anyone better than the ubiquitous Al Leong - you may not know his name, but you'll know his face!
Finally, of course, there's the villain of the piece - and I challenge you to find a better Sinestro than Jeremy Irons, no matter what his age!
Inspired by Twitter this morning!
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