
20th Century Fox / Warner Bros.
Last week, as Deadpool 2 was rolling into theaters, the company that first employed Ryan Reynolds as a comic book superhero, Warner Bros., decided to make light of the fact that his superhero movie for them (which Reynolds claims to have never watched all the way through) turned out to be a giant bomb.
On Friday, the official WB Home Entertainment Twitter account wrote to Reynolds, “We tried to put a ring on it! #GreenLantern @VancityReynolds.”
We tried to put a ring on it! #GreenLantern @VancityReynolds pic.twitter.com/W9e0KhgbnU
— Warner Bros. Entertainment (@WBHomeEnt) May 18, 2018
Kind of funny, right? Getting a little free publicity on the back of Deadpool for a turd of a film from 2011. We can live with that. Humor is good! Not that it stopped folks on Twitter from cracking some pretty good jokes and taking some shots at WB.
https://twitter.com/mjstudiosYT/status/998208166507794435
….no …you didn't …you could have made a great movie like @geoffjohns did with the books ..and @VancityReynolds probably would have liked that …but you let what get made …get made..
— Andy Martens (@andy_hall23) May 20, 2018
That movie is an insult to Superhero Movies
— Edu… (@educh26) May 20, 2018
https://twitter.com/evilexref/status/998128298029875200
However, the next day the social media people over at Warner Bros. decided to get greedy and issued another tweet about Reynolds playing Green Lantern for them.
They wrote, “Sorry @VancityReynolds, we’re going to need the ring back.” Uh oh. This time Reynolds decided to respond personally. And we all know how that works out, right?
Sorry @VancityReynolds, we're going to need the ring back. pic.twitter.com/dPyfsRPUYg
— Warner Bros. Entertainment (@WBHomeEnt) May 19, 2018
Reynolds’ response? “Well, if we’d used a NuvaRing™️ in the first place, we wouldn’t be in this mess. #deadpool2.”
Well, if we’d used a NuvaRing™️ in the first place, we wouldn’t be in this mess. #deadpool2
— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) May 19, 2018
Boom, roasted. (If you don’t know what a NuvaRing is, here.)
— That_Chubby_Unicorn (@zanmarivosges) May 20, 2018
— WolverSteve HUGH JACKMAN is Wolverine 💛💙 (@WolverSteve) May 19, 2018
https://twitter.com/RUAg4mer/status/997942663511969792
😂 this is killing me!!! 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/7LjVs91rNC
— Ashley Lookingbill (@AR_Realtor_Ash) May 20, 2018
Maybe @blakelively has it
— Nitin (@nitin_cul) May 19, 2018
Good point. She was Reynolds’ co-star in the film after all.