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The Green Hornet looks ready to take its rightful place alongside such other comic book film masterpieces as The Spirit, The Rocketeer, The Shadow, and The Phantom.
I just don’t get the whole Seth as Green Hornet thing.
Jay’s “new interpretation” will be playing the role as a non-Asian.
What?? Not Nicholas Cage??!
Now please recast the title role and lose Seth Rogen.
This looks like Speed Racer part 2 to me. This wasn’t even an amazing property 40 years ago when it was on TV. Nobody knows about it now. Nobody cares about it now. There is nothing about it that hasn’t already been vastly overserved to the audience in eight million other poorly chosen variations. The only reason it’s still on the radar to any degree, which it isn’t, is because Bruce Lee was in it. There’s no more Bruce Lee. It wasn’t even the role that made him a star anyway. Hint to producers: these things only work with iconic characters. Batman, Superman, Spiderman, etc. All those guys are taken. So rather than dusting off C-level non-starters … make something new!
With a bizarre low-budget indie director, a gravely-voiced ethnic moron in the lead, and a comic book no one read as the basis – and a huge budget – this film could turn into a disaster of Heaven’s Gate proportions. Can’t wait to see it and mock it.
This film will be next summer’s Land Of The Lost.
Mark my words.
Does anyone think this is a good idea?
The Rocketeer was a great film.
Still, I guess I should get another job and not wait for the sequel.
Hearing Seth Rogen on Howard Stern discussing his total lack of interest in getting ready for this role made me think even HE doesn’t give a shit about it. At least the car looks great.
I’m beginning to think Hollywood doesn’t care about its audiences…
How many Katos have they gone through, and they haven’t even shot a frame of the actual movie?
Name-The Green Hornet looks ready to take its rightful place alongside such other comic book film masterpieces as The Spirit, The Rocketeer, The Shadow, and The Phantom.
The thing is, those films actually got made. They didn’t just make casting announcements on a near weekly basis.
Personally I have a bad feeling that this hornet isn’t going to fly.
Personally, I suspect this was all just a big scam to get Seth Rogen to lose weight.
Chou’s an incredibly talented guy…. too bad they’re stuck with Gondry and FUCKING ROGEN.
Anonymous hater,
Not only are you a moron, but a rascist.
“Ethnic moron”?
Glad I’m not you.
Those who can enjoy things are luckier than those who can’t.
I’m with you Warner Brog. This film will be a major disaster.
This is a blue chip flop in the making. No one is asking for this movie, and who thinks there is a demand for Seth Rogan in the title role? Yeah, this time it will be different. It won’t flop like Zack and Miri, Observe and Report or Funny People.
This will be a flop. Rogen can’t pull this off.
Don’t expect the phrase “The Green Hornet strikes again!” to appear on any movie ads for the Green Hornet next year. This movie has been in the planning stages for over a decade, with different people attached to a e movie that never gets made. There is little chance this new turnaround attempt will succeed. When Stephen Chow walked from the project, the Green Hornet lost its best chance for completion.
Comment by Name — August 7, 2009 @ 10:54 am
You took the words right out of my mouth!!!
Hey, I loved Rocketeer!
It was and is a great popcorn movie.
The only thing that doomed it was the recession.
Oh, and lack of knowing how to market it.
If it were released today, it would be a profitable summer flick and strong word of mouth.
Right movie, wrong time.
This movie could work.
Like any film it is all about the script and the execution.
The Green Hornet was all about Kato, The Car the Gadgets and that song!
Seth is a good enough actor to pull this off. As a fan of the show (admittedly on DVD) I’m hoping they can do it.
Actually, THE ROCKETEER (one of the first comics adaptations to actually get the creator involved in the production- the late Dave Stevens had already worked on many films, including the Indiana jones movies) would STILL bomb today, as it was essentially a nostalgia piece (a good one, too). I doubt HORNET’s BO potential, too, but I do think it’s actually going to get made this time.There IS something in the source material (a hero who poses as a criminal to better take down organised crime) that could translate into an interesting and distinctive “take” on the usual superhero cliches (the idea really is very close to a straight crime thriller, if done right). I just don’t see it being handled right in today’s Hollywood- especially as I think the studio expects either mindless action or a parody thereof….
Yes, we really needed another movie that exploits the asian sterotype of kung fu master. How about adapting Helen Bannerman’s “The Story of Little Black Sambo” to film, Hollywood? Oh, that’s right, you only feel comfortable offending the timid non-threatening minorities, don’t you?
Jay Chou is a huge star in Asia, a really talented singer-song writer — but the dude can’t act!! Just watch him in “Curse of the Golden Flower” for e.g., everyone in Asia knows he’s best when he sticks to singing…
seth seems like an odd choice to me…he is not very fit..he is soft. not what i think of when i think of a hero!!!!
Seth is a terrible choice. This is going to be played for laughs, and it will go down the toilet. His expiration date has long come and gone. He needs to take his ball and bat and go play elsewhere.