Nic Cage has always been a bittersweet favourite of mine. When he is good he leaves my jaw in my lap, but when he cranks out a stinker you better run. Seems he does nothing half ass.
So when I heard that Green Hornet was losing another one of its stars, and that star was Cage I was conflicted about how his departure would affect the film. Cage haters will see this as a good thing, and fans lament, but I am on the fence with him, so I have no feelings on the topic.
But the real question was WHY he left. Speculation brews when we see how much trouble this film is facing with people coming and going like a penny arcade peep show.
Collider shares:
The sometimes great, but always fun, actor said that he “wasn’t interested in just being just a straight-up bad guy who was killing people willy-nilly.” He goes on to say that “‘The Green Hornet’ was something that I wanted to do, I think Michel Gondry is very talented and I had hoped it would work but I think Seth Rogen and Michel had a different take on the character.”
So it sounds like he is just laying down the “Creative Differences” card and leaving it at that.
We won’t really know what Rogen and Gondry had in mind for the character til we see their finished product. I have always enjoyed Cage’s badguy roles, so maybe there is something there.
