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Monday
20Jul2009

Seth Rogen Says 'Green Hornet' is "Going Great"

DateMonday, July 20, 2009 at 1:11AM
In case you're interested, Seth Rogen talked to Sci Fi Wire about the crumpled remains of his Green Hornet movie now that Stephen Chow is off the project. I won't rehash everything here, but I wish they'd just quit while they're only significantly behind.

Rogen, on the other hand, is reassuring. "It's going great," he said this weekend. "In my head, we lost Stephen Chow in April, so it's something I've had a lot of time to wrap my head around." Of course, since Chow is the stroke of genius in this equation and Rogen isn't, you can see why all of this would be troubling.

But Rogen is moving forward with director Michel Gondry, whose participation Rogen says "opens a whole new bag of worms." Compliment? I think it's meant to be.

Whether or not your're familiar with the history of this character, he began in the 1930s on radio and has lived on in one form or another ever since. To a younger generation, The Green Hornet hit its peak in the 1960s when it launched the career of Bruce Lee as Kato, the role Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle) had been tapped to fill.

Rogen hasn't shown a whole lot of respect for the property in the past, admitting he didn't know the story very well. That doesn't mean this will turn out poorly, but it's usually not enouraging, even if you're OK with them taking the character in a new direction, which I would be if anything else along the way seemed to be headed the right way.

Then there's this, which might be the most desperate way of making a movie I've ever heard:

"Right now we're making a big movie and not many of our friends have made a movie this scale. So we're inviting everyone imaginable to come and just see what it's like and give us their ideas and throw in their input, have them learn from what we're doing and to get all their ideas in the process."

Great, so it will have absolutely no focus and no Stephen Chow. Well, that makes me much more confident.

AuthorColin Boyd | | in , , , , | Print ArticlePrint Article | | Comment1 Comment |

Reader Comments (1)

IT WILL BE A BOMB!!!

Any smart producer or studio execs or film studio in that matter , in their right mind would not put up money for this film to get made.... if they havent already..

I didnt even know the part that Seth Rogen pretty much disrespected the story and doesnt know jack about it and WANT TO MAKE A FILM ... lol... thats pretty insulting and ridiculous

I understand he's "hot" right now and if Funny People blows up (even though he's not the star, IMO) which it very well could, he may even have a better chance of getting this project rolling.....

But disrespecting the story and its characters, and no Stephen Chow even though Michael Gondry is great (remember Eternal Sunshine..) but as a superhero director I'm not so sure, and his comments about there being no focus pretty much for the film........

-solidies it will suck

Monday, July 20, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterSean

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