Green Hornet has seen its share of hiccups lately, from Stephen Chow dropping out, to rumours of filming delays and now Seth Rogen has gone on record to assure us that everything is back on track. And they have their director.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director – Michel Gondry!
His new “Green Hornet” collaborator is none other than Michel Gondry, the eye-popping auteur who gave us “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “Be Kind Rewind,” and too many classic music videos to list here. Capping off an exhaustive search, the “Pineapple Express” funnyman said Gondry is the perfect director for his comedic take on the crime-fighting newspaper publisher who first slipped into his green mask in 1936.
I had been holding out hope that they would not be making the Green Hornet into a comedy. I do enjoy a good pulp adventure styled superhero film, though still working up the courage to see The Spirit.
I would have liked to have seen Seth Rogen step away from the comedy and try something new. I love the guy, and his comedy is just the kind of thing that sends milk out my nose so I will go see anything with him in it. But his comedies are not adaptations of existing properties. Now he is taking on a lesser known superhero property and making it into a comedy? This mix is like cola in my cereal.
But this Michel Gondry fella has some experience with comedy stuff and knows how to get dark and earthy when he needs to. It might take some time and a trailer or three for me to get used to Green Hornet as a comedic character, but at least if they are going that way they have a good director on board.
