I am – Hercules!! Peter Sarsgaard (“Flightplan,” “Jarhead,” “Year of the Dog,” “An Education”) is negotiating to play bad guy Dr. Hector Hammond opposite Ryan Reynolds’ Hal Jordan in “Green Lantern.” In the movie Hammond will be a U.S. senator’s son and pathologist who develops psychic powers following exposure to a meteor, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The character was merely a petty criminal when he first appeared in 1961, in the fifth issue of the silver-age Green Lantern funnybook.

Sarsgaard was never on “Star Trek,” so I don’t know how well he acts in a giant cranial appliances, but this guy always turns in solid performances. Loved him in especially as the stealth hero of “Shattered Glass.” Director Martin Campbell (“Casino Royale,” “Edge of Darkness”) begins principal photography on “Green Lantern” this March, working from a rewrite by Michael Goldenberg (“Contact,” “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”). Ryan Reynolds (“Wolverine,” “The Proposal”) plays the title character, a rookie intergalactic cop with a “power ring” that can do nearly anything he wills it to. Blake Lively (“Gossip Girl,” the “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” movies) plays the hero’s love interest, aerospace heiress Carol Ferris. Warner Bros. is looking to release the live-action feature June 17, 2011. Find The Hollywood Reporter’s story on the matter here. Follow Herc on Twitter!!