**Green Lantern **might be kicking off shooting in New Orleans this week, but Martin Campbell reached out to New Zealand for two new casting choices – Temuera Morrison and Taika Waititi have signed on.
Waititi – who wrote, directed and acted in Eagle Vs Shark – is playing the best mate of Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds), the test pilot who ends up inheriting the super-powered ring worn by members of the Green Lantern Corps.
Morrison, still probably best known as Jango Fett from the Star Wars prequels, has an even more instrumental role – he’s Abin Sur, the alien Lantern who crashes on Earth and who passes that same ring to Jordan so that he might protect the planet.
It’s still not known whether Lantern will be shot in 3D or undergo a conversion process a al Clash Of The Titans, but either way it’ll arrive in cinemas next summer.