Sony Unhappy With Seth Rogen's 'Green Hornet'?

Is bad news on the horizon for Green Hornet? IESB writes that both the upcoming Seth Rogen action comedy and Warner Bros. comic book adaptation, Lobo, are trending down. The difference is that nobody's started filming Lobo yet and Green Hornet is essentially in the can. The word is Sony executives just aren't happy with what we've they've seen from Michel Gondry's movie. The tone, not surprisingly, is deemed too "campy," Gondry's work isn't impressing anyone, and neither is Rogen. "The feeling at Sony is the movie is a disaster," says IESB, which I can't say comes as any great shock. I never liked Rogen for this, not one bit. But the studio was prospecting, thinking Seth was riding some kind of unstoppable hot streak. Of course, when he as hired, that hot streak was already over. Pineapple Express did well for, like, two days, and then never did a whole lot after that. Then came Observe and Report and Funny People. But Sony handed the keys to Rogen anyway, even though he admitted not being particularly fond of the character or the old TV series. Last summer he admitted that "we're inviting everyone imaginable to come and just see what it's like and give us their ideas and throw in their input," because movies get so much better as they open themselves p to anything and everything. Then there was the whole mess with Stephen Chow, as both director and Kato, jumping ship, meaning the studio had to replace two people. They did: Gondry is directing and Jay Chou is Kato. Then there were all the delays. There are, as Don Henley once sang, three sides to every story - your, mine, and the cold hard truth. We won't know that third one until December, but Sony is already in full denial mode. Anne Thompson writes that Sony rep Steve Elzer calls the suggestion that the company is unhappy with Green Hornet "complete garbage." Adding that executives have only seen about one-third of the film, Elzer adds, "What we have seen is outstanding. The piece is unfounded." Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Movie sites don't get their information from studio executives, but we do talk to people who work behind the scenes, so maybe Executive A really loves what he's seen but the people in the trenches who have seen more have a better perspective. But what would Sony say seven months before the film's release, especially with a troubled production like this?

Comments

[Jesse]

"The feeling at Sony is the movie is a disaster,"

Sony A) wouldn't admit that to anyone.
B) would whore it out as the most awesome thing ever (ie Spider Man 3) loads of information was soo positive etc... yet it was garbage.

The point here? Don't listen to the people who funded the movie, go for the sake of seeing a movie, not based on someone else's word.

besides ISEB sucks haha/