Blake Lively Cast In Green Lantern

Blake Lively has nabbed the female lead opposite Ryan Reynolds in Warner Bros.’ “Green Lantern.”

Lively, best known for her roles in Gossip Girl and Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants,  will play Carol Ferris, who runs her father’s aerospace company and hires cocky test pilot Hal Jordan (Reynolds), who later becomes the intergalactic policeman Green Lantern. In the comics, the romance became complicated when an alien race bestowed her the power of a crystal called the Star Sapphire.

Despite being scheduled to start filming in ten weeks, casting continues as filmmakers attempt to fill the roles of Dr. Hector Hammond, one of the key villains, and the alien known as Sinestro.