I’ve personally never liked the idea of doing a Green Hornet movie at all. He really wasn’t ever all that popular of a character, and when you really think about it the whole concept is ridiculous (then again to be fair, most comic book/hero genre concepts are too). Adding Seth Rogen to the mix as The Green Hornet was also a move to me that reeked of desperation. This is NOT a good fit… at all.
Anyway, when Rogen was initially telling people that The Green Hornet movie was going to be done in a more “serious” tone. Perhaps more “The Dark Knight” rather than “Iron Man”. I could see something like that having some potential to work… but not with Seth Rogen in the lead role whatsoever.
However, now our friends over at CHUD are reporting that Rogen has backed away from those “more serious” remarks and is now hinting that the film is going to be more of a comedy:
“Me and Evan [Goldberg] talk a lot of shit. We have one rule when writing, and that’s don’t get attached to anything. One day we want to make a serious film and then Stephen Chow comes in with a good idea and we’re like, ‘Well it’s funny.’ Should we not do it because we originally wanted to do a serious film? We come from, nah fuck it, we’ll just take the idea that seems good. So it’s definitely less serious than a serious film, that’s for sure. We want the action… I say now that we want the action to play serious but Stephen could come in tomorrow and say ‘You know what? I want to throw you 400 feet in the air!’ and I’d go, ‘OK, that sounds cool.’
This shouldn’t really surprise any of us at all, especially when they announced that Stephen Chow was coming on board to direct it. For those of you who may not know, Chow is the man behind “Kung Fu Hustle” and the amazing “Shaolin Soccer“, both very funny movies.
I still don’t like the sounds of this project at all. Yes it makes more sense to make it a comedy if Chow and Rogen are on board… but that doesn’t mean the concept is good in the first place. As with all things we’ll just have to wait and see how this turns out, but I don’t personally feel good about it.
