A joke made by Ryan Reynolds in last week’s Saturday Night Live monologue–that they were going to start shooting Green Lantern soon, “…so look for that in spring 2053.” There was immediately some speculation as to exactly what he meant by that (and it really sounded more snarky than necessary when he opened with “…because there’s nothing kids love more than lanterns.”), which to me was made even odder by the fact that Sunday morning he was doing blog interviews where he was talking about his excitement over the shoot, which he claims is still on track for February.

While technically he isn’t contradicting himself here (since in the SNL monologue he said that the GL flick would start shooting soon), I can’t help but wonder if someone at Warner Brothers/DC Entertainment put him out there to do spin control when he pooched some of his earliest public comments about what promises to be a major film both for Warner Brothers and for Reynolds’ career. Win, lose or draw, Green Lantern will be a huge, big-budget affair and it’ll probably go down as one of the great successes or failures of the superhero genre.

Reynolds also gave an interview this weekend that described the film as a “space epic,” revealing some minor details about the movie (such as the fact that Kilowog and Sinestro will be involved and that about a third of the movie is set on Oa) and by his presence seeming to confirm the report’s claim that the film is on track for a June 17, 2011, release date.

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