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MTV is reporting that the "GI Joe" star is still coveting the much sought after role of Danny Rand in an "Iron Fist" movie.

At last weekend's Wizard World Chicago, an audience member asked Park(Darth Maul, Snake Eyes, Toad) what his dream role would be...

"I actually want to be Danny Rand -- I want to be Iron Fist, I want to do it," Park said. "I've been blond before. I'll work on the American accent as well."

Park joked that one of the main reasons he wants the role is to shake off his trademark ninja clothes and Sith robes for something a bit more revealing.

"I want to have an excuse to take my top off and show off my abs," he joked. "Or, take my top off and work to get my abs back that I used to have when I was 19."

Park was previously attached to the role back in 2001 when the movie's rights were held by Artisan Entertainment. Now that the rights have reverted back to Marvel, Park said that if we do see Fist onscreen it will be right beside his Heroes For Hire buddy Luke Cage!

"If they ever do an 'Iron Fist' movie, it's going to be with the two [characters] teaming up," he said. 

Also Tyrese Gibioson wants to play The Hero for Hire - Luke Cage !!!

It was rumored, then under negotiation..now its definitely happening. When MTV caught up with Cameron Diaz she offered a 2 word confirmation..

“I’m in,” she grinned.

Diaz has officially signed on to play Lenore “Casey” Case, historically Britt Reid’s beautiful secretary and one of the few people aware of the fact that Reid (who will be played by Seth Rogen), spends his off-hours fighting crime as the Hornet. In the soon-to-shoot film, however, Casey will be re- imagined as a forensics-TV-show loving amateur sleuth who remains in the dark about Green Hornet’s true identity—and is smarting from a recent divorce.

IGN interviews Seth Rogen on Green Hornet Movie

It has been reported that Ryan Reynolds has now been cast as the DC Universe's most popular Green Lantern, Hal Jordan in the live-action film.

This big budget space epic will be directed by Martin Campbell and is expected to begin production in January.

According to sources Warners and Campbell chose Reynolds, over Bradley Cooper (The Hangover) and Jared Leto (Requiem for a Dream). The momentum built for Reynolds in the last week, as he was the only actor whose option was extended.

Writers: Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Michael Green.
Producers: Donald DeLine with Berlanti.

Warner Brothers apparently liked writer/director David S. Goyer's script for the Green Arrow feature Super Max enough to put the proposed film in motion.

"Green Arrow seems to be one of the characters in the wake of this phenomenal summer book-ended by Iron Man and The Dark Knight," Goyer told Sci Fi Wire's PATRICK LEE at San Diego's Comic-Con International over the weekend.

In the draft of Super Max that Goyer (The Dark Knight) submitted to Warner, Green Arrow finds himself framed, stripped of his identity and imprisoned in a high-security penitentiary for supervillains, with whom he must team up to clear his name and escape. But, ironically, the story that writer Justin Marks (Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li) originally proposed for the film (which has come to be called by some Green Arrow: Escape from Supermax) wasn't earmarked for the bow-slinging DC hero.

"It started out as a supervillain-escape idea, and the idea was, well, we can either go Marvel or DC," said Goyer. "And I talked to both of them, and I kind of said, 'Well, who can you give me?' Because I needed a superhero that I can bounce off of. And I don't know. For my money it was, if we went Marvel, it would be Captain America. If we went DC, maybe Green Arrow. And Green Arrow seemed like the best fit."

The non-powered costumed character also fits into the current trend of spotlighting second-tier comic heroes that the recent Iron Man proved to be so lucrative. Warner's eagerness to green-light (no pun intended) Super Max obviously stems, at least in part, from this.

"Green Arrow is, you know, probably on the same level as Iron Man," Goyer said. "And, yeah, I mean when a movie like Iron Man does $300 million, and DC, Warner Brothers, realizes, 'Wow, we've got 20 of these kinds of characters.'"

The Director has announced that they have simply called the movie "Green Arrow". Which is a good thing since it's about him. plus who would say "Do you want to go see SUPERMAX" then get into a big disscustion about the movie name and miss the movie all together. 

We previously told you about David Goyer’s superhero prison break project Super Max. The screenplay isn’t even finished and already rumors have begun on the super hero casting.  a certain source claims that Matt Damon is in negotiations to play Green Arrow:

       " During his break from the 3rd installment of The Bourne Identity series and he was asked if he was doing any comic book movies. He said he was in the middle of negotiating the starring role in The Green Arrow movie!! "

This also may be a bunch of crap since the script/screenplay hasn't been finished but hay I'm a HUGE Jason Bourne Fan. Jason Bourne Goes Green ( literally ).  

David Goyer Director of now DEAD Flash Movie is going to tackle a new Hero from the JLA.

 Now this sounds like a pretty cool idea: Green Arrow gets sent to a prison stuffed with DC villains, several of whom he helped to apprehend. To hear Mr. Goyer describe the project, it sounds like a potentially hard-edged prison thriller / action movie, only infused with that wonderful air of comic book geekiness:

"He’s Green Arrow for the first 10 minutes of the movie, and then he’s arrested and his secret identity is revealed ... They shave his goatee and they take his costume and send him to prison for life, and he has to escape. ... We’ve populated the prison with all sorts of B and C villains from the DC Universe."

Sorry but I think that sounds pretty darn cool. And yes, I actually did own a bunch of Green Arrow comic books when I was a kid. (Green Arrow AND Green Lantern, strangely enough.) Apparently there are also some plans to do a graphic novel tie-in with the "Super Max" movie. It'll be a Warner Bros. project, and Goyer is presently working with screenwriter Justin Marx to get the script finished.

And maybe maybe Goyer is monkeying around with some well-established characters, but we're talking about the guy who wrote "Dark City," "Blade" and "Batman Begins," so I think he's earned the benefit of the doubt on this one. Plus, c'mon: Disgraced superheroes and angry supervillains duking it out in a super-maximum security prison?? I wanna see that movie.