I am still skeptical about Seth Rogen’s take on Green Hornet. I keep thinking its going to be goofball slacker comedy that we love seeing him in, but then hope that its going to be the opposite and we would get a fitting tribute to the character on screen.
I give Seth Rogen the benefit of the doubt, but when his director Stephen Chow stepped down (but still agrees to co-star) I had to extend that benefit a little further. Now it appears that Chow is out. The guy is just to busy with other things that are more important to him. Ok, stretch that doubt a little further…
But then I saw the casting call for his replacement.
Chow has another feature he would like to do, and the ongoing scheduling problems the film has suffered appear to have resulted in him bowing out of the project. Thankfully, the filmmakers are maintaining only the highest and most specific standards in their search for a replacement:
“[KATO] ALL ASIAN ETHNICITIES, Male, 20’s – early 40’s. Brit Reid’s manservant/chauffeur by day and Green Hornet’s martial arts-skilled sidekick by night. Actor doesn’t have to have Martial Arts experience.”
I can appreciate that they are accepting any variety of ages, as that part is not as important to the character as much as the presence. But to define him as “Green Hornet’s martial arts-skilled sidekick by night” and then put a casting call out that says they don’t have to have any martial arts expierence?
Now my benefit of doubt was already stretched, so I have none left to assume there are many dancers that make fine martial artists on screen (Van Damme and Swayze come to mind) but I at least would have wanted to see someone capable of martial arts to play Green Hornet’s martial arts-skilled sidekick!
I’m running out of hope for this movie. At least we will have Kevin Smith’s rejected script coming out this summer as a comic book so we can compare a “what if” to what Rogen finally comes out with.
