Entertainment Weekly has a brief snippet with Ryan Reynolds this week (as linked to by Rob Liefeld on Twitpic) where the actor talks about being both Deadpool and Green Lantern in the upcoming films based on those characters. Says Reynolds, in part, “There’s no rule that says you can’t play two different characters in two different comic book universes.” And while he goes on to say there are plenty of other comics projects he’d be interested in, the one that I would have liked to see—Reynolds as The Flash’s Wally West—seems to be excepted by the very phrasing of the actor’s own answer (“…in two different comic book universes”). Since neither film is slated for release until 2011, though, that provides plenty of time for circumstances to change—if Reynolds’ stock rises, we could see him in all kinds of projects. And if Hollywood’s love affair with superhero comics starts to cool, a high-risk project like Deadpool or a high-budget project like Green Lantern may take a backseat to more sure things.

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