Seth Rogen’s Green Hornet project has been put on hold after Stephen Chow has stepped down as director (but will still co-star as Kato). However word on the street (and by “street” I mean internet) is that this project has done more than slow down, and is at risk of getting the full stop.
Ever since Stephen Chow started to waffle about his participation in the film, I’ve been hearing rumors that there were major hesitations at Sony. Then at Sundance, I heard several people say that the film was off completely. I spoke this afternoon with a source close to the film, and while they didn’t call it completely dead, they did say it is “highly unlikely” that the film will shoot in 2009 at all.
This is one film that dances in and out of my attention span. I am not convinced that Seth Rogen is the right choice for Green Hornet, but as time passes I am more convinced that I need to see it to believe it. Benefit of the doubt (and there is a lot of doubt), but when he lost his director I swayed back out of caring.
Seems the studios are not all that confident either.
If this doesn’t ever get made it will still be on Rogen’s public resume. People will still look on his career and see his films and what he has accomplished then mention as a side note “Remember when he almost did that Green Hornet movie?” and reminisce how we will never now how that worked out.
Or it may eventually find itself being made and we will either talk about how surprisingly good he was as Hornet or how it failed completely. Who knows?
