Green Hornet has faced a lot of bumps along the road. With on screen set problems and setbacks, it seemed like the film might not come out.
If Sony has anything to do with it… it might not. They hate it.
Well word is in that Sony executives have gotten an early look at Green Hornet and, well, their reaction was apparently less than enthusiastic. They say that the movie is too campy, Gondry’s direction is off, and yes, Seth Rogen (even though he’s lost weight for the part) doesn’t work at all in the lead.
This is bad news indeed. I had hopes against hopes that Rogen was going to surprise the crap out of me and offer up something really cool. But I assumed that he would go against his own flow and steer away from the campy. But it seems they still went that way anyways.
Now it might not be as bad as they are saying, but it doesnt bid well for the movie scheduled out this Christmas season.
But with this bad news also comes news that DC’s plans for Lobo are also not looking so good.
A Lobo film has been in the works for a while now, with Guy Ritchie attached to the project at one point and Akiva Goldsman producing. Since then, Ritchie departed to do Sherlock Holmes 2 and two other big-budgeted projects that Goldsman served as producer on (The Losers and Jonah Hex) have left Warner Bros executives less than enthused.
So it seems that Lobo might not even get off the ground.
Now I am not shedding any tears over this one as I could care less about the Lobo character. That whole book is just a joke giving DC a gag to hyperbole to Wolverine. And they want to make a movie out of their own self professed gag?
If that stalls I wont lose sleep, but I was really holding hope that Green Hornet would be a surprise. Now if they were wrong about Hornet, and if they don’t bother with Lobo, then I will be happy. But that’s a lot of “ifs”.
