Seth Rogen = Green Hornet

whut

as weird or weirder than nic cage as superman?

played for laffs or straight?

WAHT

Hmm. Wonder who they're going to get as Kato.

Charlene Yi

http://www.reappropriate.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/fumanchu1.jpg

Haha

that's just cuz their names are anagrams.

:-O

About time they cast a superhero with a guy who looks like comic-book readers

I do not look like Seth Rogen

zing?

i do, apparently

Wait, is it Rogen or Rogan? Even the LA Times spells it both ways.

Rogaine.

appears to be unfamiliar with dave letterman's alcohol history

What the hell, Gondry is directing this thing? And the villain is going to be played by Nicholas Cage?

Meantime, Seth Rogen, angry man:

"Entourage" chewed up comic actor Seth Rogen in Monday night’s episode. Now Seth is biting back.

The writers had their characters referring to Seth's “ugliness … oddly fascinating” in a comic debate over whether Rogen could get a Katherine Heigl babe in real life.

Rogen fired back to E!’s Daily 10:

“Yeah ... I actually ran into Matt … Kevin Dillon in a Starbucks. And he’s like ‘You know, I’ve got to kind of apologize because apparently the guy who created our show doesn’t like you so much.' "

"And I said, ‘Well, I have reason to believe because I think Doug Ellin is a moron from all I can understand, so it makes sense he doesn’t like me.’

"And I’ve kind of said some disparaging things about the show. Although in our defense, ["Entourage" producer] Mark Wahlberg called us misogynistic in an interview, so I think they kind of started that. … It’s on. Luckily, I never have and never plan on watching 'Entourage.' "

Nic Cage = awesome. Gondry is a disappointment.

I just stared at this thread title for like 30 seconds thinking it was an anagram.

Seth Rogen = Green Shot

Gondry is a disappointment.

When Stephen Chow dropped out, Gondry shot an action sequence on spec to convince the studio he could handle the job.

We have car:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef011572278f9c970b-800wi

Gondry and Rogen talk more here.

I predict an interesting disaster along the lines of Beatty's Dick Tracy

the Nic-Cage-as-villain thing is interesting... I have no idea who any of the Green Hornet's nemeses were

Sez here:

Two major foes for The Green Hornet were the mysterious "Mr. X", a criminal mastermind introduced in the episode "Walkout for Profit" (broadcast June 21, 1941) who became part of a storyline in 1941 pitting the Hornet against him in an ongoing battle, and Oliver Perry (1945-49), a famous but unscrupulous private detective who repeatedly returned to try and unmask The Green Hornet. Perry suspected Britt Reid of being the Hornet but was never able to prove it, and episodes featuring him always ended with the Hornet either outwitting him or humiliating him, if not both, to the point where he was forced to leave town.

What the...so there was a French Green Hornet movie three years ago:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/04/The_green_hornet_short_2006.jpg/406px-The_green_hornet_short_2006.jpg

I am such a Gondry stan, I am going to end up watching this even though it sounds like it will be horrible.

Kind of off subject, but Rogen is coming off like quite the dick whining about how mean the Entourage episode from Sunday night was.

"Seth Rogen shot goner Seth Green" is an anagram for "Seth Rogen Seth Rogen Seth Rogen."

tbh Rogen comes off like a dick in most interviews.

True. But he seems particularly butthurt about this whole thing.

Jay Chou to be Kato.

what a disaster for Stephen Chow

Holy shit, JAY CHOU!! I had never heard of him until I lived in Shanghai for a few months, but the guy is absolutely huge, and so so so lame. He's on billboards everywhere trying to look so sexy and TOUGH at the same time, and completely failing.

http://sites.acjc.edu.sg/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/jaychou011.jpg
http://www.jaychoustudio.com/news_images/27-06-2006-2.jpg
http://oneasianworld.com/blog/Jay-Chou-picture11.jpg
http://www.chinatownconnection.com/images/jaychou12.jpg
http://www.chinatownconnection.com/images/jaychou12.jpg
http://www.chinatownconnection.com/images/jaychou12.jpg

aaaaaaaahahahahaha

Then again, if someone posted pics of my international sexy ad campaign I'd be really embarrassed..sorry Jay Chou.

wow the asian-american acting pool is really that weak, huh?

If Seth Rogen can drop the rapid-fire chortle for this role, much respect. Otherwise, puke.

Oh well:

Nicolas Cage will not be playing the villain in The Green Hornet, the action comedy starring Seth Rogen and Cameron Diaz. Cage was “in talks” for the role as far back as July 2009, but the Oscar-winning (remember?) actor was never able to come to a financial agreement with Columbia. Could this movie be plagued with anymore bad luck?

Meanwhile, filming has already started under the direction of Michel Gondry in Los Angeles where a stunt accident occurred today. According to THR, no Cage scenes were shot yet, but now the studio has to find a bad guy before time runs out. I hope someone is filming all of this because the production woes may end up being more interesting than the movie itself.

they could hire me as the bad guy, i work for cheap.

Only if they let you do the soundtrack.

:D

lolz how bad does a movie have to be for Nicholas Cage NOT to be in it

He dropped out when he found out he wouldn't be punching out any women.

Oscar-winning (remember?) actor was never able to come to a financial agreement with Columbia

Cage wanted Columbia to pay him. Columbia wanted Cage to pay them.

Okay, NOW I'm interested:

I'm told that ICM's actor Christoph Waltz who won Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival for playing a Nazi in Inglourious Basterds (and is a shoo-in for an Oscar nomination) has now been cast as villain Chudnofsky in Sony's The Green Hornet opposite Seth Rogen and Cameron Diaz.

Also, am I reading that right, he's 52?! Goddamn he ages well.

Talk about upgrades.

Maybe this can be a series of movies about how Waltz just kicks Rogen's ass each time and laughs at him.

Edward James Olmos talks some about it.

Oh the travails of modern Hollywood etc

http://www.deadline.com/2010/04/sony-pushes-back-green-hornet-release/

Here's the trailer.

hm.

Great, Seth Rogen’s scrotum-like face in 3D. Can’t wait for the IMAX release.

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Man, I’m excited to see this!

Oh wait, no I’m not. Sorry. Good luck with your little show, Sony!

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Seth Rogen in 3D? Gross.

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Is anyone really surprised by this move?? Once Rogen was announced as the green Hornet, it sealed this movie’s fate. As a long time Hornet fan this movie belonged in Francis Ford Coppola’s hands as maybe a period piece not a hack stoner such as Rogan.
Yet another bad movie the fans will have to apologize for.
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It’s obvious Sony moved this Christmas turkey to January because it was going to be dead on arrival. Next, they had to figure what to do with the leftovers and decided “hey, let’s make it 3D!”

It’s lipstick on a pig. Converting a shitty movie to 3D… it’s still a shitty movie. No one cares to see this.

he he

the trailer for this looks p good?

idk why every1 is on its dick

comic fans i guess

looks hell of a lot better than spider-man/ironman/___________

h8 the thing blogs/trades do of saying, well the studio has problems with this movie, therefore it must be iffy. because obviously studio marketing departments are proven judges of quality.

That looks like a blast! Sucks about the 3D, though.

i generally hate 3D but with this and 'harold and kumar 3' maybe it'll be ok

comic fans i guess

oldtime radio fans u mean

probably gonna fail and not really be up to mainstream standards but looks kinda fun to me. history mayne otm

let me tell you now, if my scrotum even halfway resembled Seth Rogan's face I would be running like mad to the nearest carnival doctor

sounds like the world's cutest scrotum to be honest

looks fun, but it is gonna bomb soooo hard. also, being dumped in the January wasteland.

my scrotum's been losing weight dramatically too nahmsayin

being dumped in the January wasteland.

yeah this killed 'cloverfield'

Oh dear. I like Gondry, but probably not enough to actually want to see this. It looks like Rogen has just transposed his usual schtick into a superhero/action movie context.

I mean it probably won't be as embarrasing for all concerned as The Spirit was, but it just looks...dumb.

this looks very very average

wouldn't mind seeing a superhero movie that was not an origin story for once (obvious exceptions for sequels here)

Does not look Gondry-esque enough for me.

yeah I detect zero Gondry in that trailer, oddly

troo

thing of it is, except for ESOTSM gondry hasn't been so good at the feature films

also true

I will stan for all of his movies up to The Green Hornet.

oh I don't think he's made anything truly bad yet, but ESOTSM is head and shoulders above pretty much everything else he's done, and is probably the best of the Jonze/Gondry/Kaufmann axis of films

i would see the superhero version of be kind rewind in theaters and buy the dvd from a 3 for $15 sale at blockbuster, that's what i was hoping for here really

is he gonna wear tight things in this or

i generally hate 3D but with this and 'harold and kumar 3' maybe it'll be ok

Still wondering why Film Comment didn't let you list your best of the decade, huh

Its officially time to just accept that every movie ever will be in 3D now. Obviously this was due to the movie I saw, but every single one of the seven(!) trailers before Toy Story 3 was for a 3D movie.

I'm hoping the non-3D option will hold out, if only because 3D screenings are just way too fucking expensive.

this looks like ass

Yeah not looking forward to the wife dragging me to shitty romcoms to see Bradley Cooper's wonky eyes popping out at me in 3D.

Rogen: 'It's been a project of passion.'

Allegedly, it's good.

Does anyone still care, though? I had completely forgotten this movie existed.

i care, dan. i care.

It is Gondry so I will end up seeing this, but I will probably wait until it hits the dollar theatre.

I watched the whole trailer thinking "Where's that crazy ring? Why isn't he being fucked up by anything yellow?" I spent all these years thinking this was a Green Lantern movie, I guess.

Maybe that's why everyone at Comic-Con was so upset.

Questions my wife had after seeing the trailer:

"So is this the same thing as the Green Lantern?"
"Wait, is Green Hornet a good guy or bad guy?"
"Which one is the Green Hornet?"

I'd say, with my wife as proxy for the comic book illiterate, this movie is set up to do some boffo "Scott Pilgrim" business.

Also, taking sides: Gondry directing this vs. Brad Bird directing "Mission: Impossible 4." What a waste of their respective gifts, no matter how each property turns out.

uh, if the film ends up being good, why is it a waste

Because both of them are somewhat hindered by the material? It'd be like getting David Lynch to direct "Return of the Jedi." Oh, wait - close call.

I don't buy that at all.

would rather watch lynch's jedi than inland empire, even if lynch's jedi is exactly like inland empire but with ewoks.

Ewok Empire

Because both of them are somewhat hindered by the material?

... Says who? You're arguing that doing a movie based on an iconic figure in American radio entertainment is inherently less worthy than doing a movie like "The Science of Sleep"?

And anyway, "Dune" was kind of awesome.

Oh, come on. Lynch's "Jedi" would have been awesome, but seeing what he did with "Dune," tossing in Lucas, and adding a trunk load of muppets? I'd watch it, but not for the right reasons.

I didn't say the material is less worthy. Not at all. Just that it's like their names were drawn out of a hat.

Gondry: Surreal, playful takes on the subconscious and quirky relationships, rife with inventive practical effects.
Green Hornet: Would-be Hollywood tentpole action flick with car crashes and explosions that, really, anyone could have directed.

Bird: Touching, humane, perceptive animated films.
MI:4: The fourth film in a redundant and workmanlike tentpole action series with a megalomaniac star as producer, that not only anyone could have directed by just about anyone has. DePalma? Woo!? Abrams?

even if these movies suck, they're presumably making $$$$ that they can use on more "worthy" projects

Okay, the first Mission: Impossible is awesome and 3 is perfectly acceptable. I like that they change up directors and go for a totally different visual/tone takes on the franchise.

Secondly, Gondry is great at visuals but absolute pish at writing. He's got great flair but I'm glad to see him working from someone else's script and I think it could be interesting.

Also, M:I 1 and 3 >>>>>> The Science of Sleep and Be Kind Rewind.

I don't know about green hornet, but I'm generally in favor of talented people prone to self-indulgence having to work within the constraints of a licensed property once in a while. Sometimes a caged beast is more fierce than one that is allowed to roam free.

I'd argue that Bird's near-total creative control is actually what made his three animated features each practically perfect. What he'll offer with MI:4 we can already pretty much guess. Granted, Gondry's near-total creative control his post-Sunshine flicks, on the other hand, has resulted in some dreadful stuff. Anyone else catch the doc about his mom? Snooze.

I am totally interested/curious/fascinated that this thing is getting made at all and will definitely watch it

Anyone else catch the herp from Josh's mom? Flooze.

Also, taking sides: Gondry directing this vs. Brad Bird directing "Mission: Impossible 4." What a waste of their respective gifts, no matter how each property turns out.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, November 11, 2010 2:33 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

please, Brad Bird isnt too good for M:I. also Ratatouille sucked

Gondry talks some:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-michel-gondry-20110113,0,4499076.story

Ebert review is HARSH

"Casting about for something to praise, I recalled that I heard a strange and unique sound for the first time, a high-pitched whooshing scream, but I don't think Gondry can claim it, because it came from the hand dryers in the nearby men's room."

Excellent!

conclusion: Ebert has never washed his hands

Anyone catch the revelation that when Nic Cage was cast as the bad guy, he insisted on acting with a Jamaican accent?

there was a nice lil article in the times about the production's history:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/movies/09hornet.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=green%20hornet&st=cse

“Stephen (Chow) wanted Kato to implant a microchip in Britt’s brain and control him with a joystick,” Mr. Rogen said. “Maybe they’re doing that in China, and I’m not aware of it. I don’t read the newspapers as much as I should.”

But the director was unable to work with Nicolas Cage, the film’s original villain. For reasons known only to him, he insisted on using a Jamaican accent.

“I was quite relieved when he announced he no longer wanted the part,” Mr. Gondry said.

conclusion: Ebert has never washed his hands

― assorted curses (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, January 13, 2011 4:49 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

don't think he's doing much with his hands these days anyway

this looks a shocking POS

don't think he's doing much with his hands these days anyway

what's wrong with his hands?

I mean, he's using them to talk now isn't he?

I thought Jackass had cornered the market on shocking POS's in 3-D.

i just mean...

i don't know what i mean

:(

wondering if this is going to be a so-bad-it's-compulsively-watchable type movie.

yeah, this looks pretty bad. Armond likes it though!

kiss of death

Rogen had to have a bomb sometime!

It looks really boring.

i don't imagine this will be any more of a bomb than Funny People

both pretty bloated budget-wise iirc

feel like this is the kind of bomb that could end up getting blamed more on Rogen than FP did

but it's probably gonna make more money than FP - nobody overseas is gonna come out for a Sandler comedy, this has some ~international appeal~

Rogen had to have a bomb sometime!

Did that Zack and Miri movie make any money?

yah I think FP was seen as more of a Sandler or Apatow movie than a Rogen movie

tbh i thought christoph waltz looked vv good in the villain role from what i have seen but the rest looked grim

I just want the car. That's all I care about.

Did that Zack and Miri movie make any money?

think the blame for that fell more on Kevin Smith than anyone else (as it should have)

but Rogen wrote, starred in and it sounds like "co-directed" this

tbh i'm just glad to see that rogen has returned to a fuckable plumpness post production

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FW86_jO7k_A/TScl_uZTruI/AAAAAAACQlQ/m1-9lgfXie8/s1600/Seth%252BRogen%252B8.jpg

Rogen was the biggest name involved in Observe And Report and that didn't exactly make a mint but i guess there wasn't enough budget or hype involved for it to be a bomb

yeah a "bomb" is largely defined by the size of its budget

rogens been in mostly terrible movies since knocked up, huh. and that wasnt even that good. did superbad do well?

yes

not surprisingly, his highest grossing movie is Kung Fu Panda

Doesn't he more or less just have a cameo in Superbad?

Pineapple Express was another under performer, wasn't it?

he wrote Superbad and has a supporting role. I'd say he's onscreen for like a third of the movie

pineapple express made 100 mil

yeah KU/Superbad/PE all did well and the cartoons he did voices in (Kung Fu Panda, Monsters Vs. Aliens, Horton Hears A Who) all did better.

badly needed to be cut down to 10 mins in Superbad.

Armond loves Gondry, Armond loves this:

http://www.nypress.com/article-22041-goofy-green-gondry.html

^ agree that the cops subplot in superbad was a real slowdown

dunno how he gets voicework, i like him but his voice is p annoying, always the fake-gruffness.

he seems all wrong for this part, from the clips i've seen

I think this is the most expensive film adap of a 1930s radio show, at least til Dwayne Johnson stars in The Jack Benny Program.

the shadow, that was a beaut

If you had signed up for a lousy action movie and Werner Herzog called, wouldn't you too demand that you play the character with a Jamaican accent or no deal?

actually, cage said he'd only Bad Lieutenant if Herzog would direct

only make BL, I mean

kinda hope Cage demands (at least) one crazy-ass request per film from now on

"The movie is about a safe-cracker whose child is kidnapped by his former employers..."

"pink hair or I walk!"

Keep it as a verb. "Gondry kept calling, so I had to Bad Lieutenant my way out of the job. Don't get me wrong, I like to Bad Lieutenant, but it's a lot more work than a simple no."

this only makes my heart swell with love for nicolas cage.

oh, and has anyone seen this? is christoph any good in it?

I know $40 million for a holiday weekend isn't a lot, but I figured it would bomb a lot harder than that.

3-D prices.

Yeah, I know it underperformed, but I was really thinking like, $20 mill if they were lucky. I like Gondry enough to hope that he doesn't get blamed for a bomb, so I'm glad that The Dilemma exists to divert attention.

Cameron Diaz is in this? does she play Rogen's mom?

oh snap

fyi she looks p great in the shots/trailers i've seen

Cam diaz hasn't looked great since the mask.

kind of hot as a the cold, bitchy exec in Any Given Sunday iirc

otm

hot in vanilla sky, if loony, charlie's angels (various outfits), glows in something about mary, ah look tbh just no.

This had a few chuckles but man is it ever a mess. I'd read the making-of in a second, though.

I think this is the most expensive film adap of a 1930s radio show, at least til Dwayne Johnson stars in The Jack Benny Program.

Was going to remind you of Cruise's War of the Worlds but it appears this has a bigger budget than that film, which is incredible even with five years of inflation to take into account.

that really is insane

JM, I meant something that originated as a 1930s radio show rather than an HG Wells novel.

Give Spielberg credit for this, he knows how to bring a film in on budget.

They should have cast Cameron Diaz as the souped-up car.

this is a strange movie

kind of hard to judge 3-D movies because 3-D is fucking shit, and there wasn't even a 2-D option

but anyway there's plenty that's bad, and i was expecting it to be set in the 30s which would have been cooler, and it's watered down as hell so rogen's shtick played really oddly and no-one seemed to die but when they did it felt ott...

yet it's still better than most big-budget films of this kind, definitely better than iron man

Cameron Diaz is in this? does she play Rogen's mom?

― some dude, Sunday, January 16, 2011

omg this made me lol

*spoilers* they bring up her advanced age in her first scene

so... this did okay? weird

3D adds a few bucks for each ticket.

i don't know why it wouldn't do OK -- pretty much any movie that pairs a familiar superhero franchise w/ a known actor is going to rake in at least a few bucks, bad buzz or reviews be damned. failure is all relative to whether or not they can get to do a sequel.

a familiar superhero franchise w/ a known actor is going to rake in at least a few bucks

you mean like Catwoman?

"Catwoman" still made $82 million dollars, even if it didn't cover its $100 million dollar budget

I thought a movie that doesn't make back it's budget is by definition a bomb

it is, but the point I'm making (and I think some dude is as well) is that it is perfectly possible for a movie to pull in millions of dollars (ie "rake in a few bucks") and still be a bomb

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/75/Phantompost.jpg/220px-Phantompost.jpg

is that it is perfectly possible for a movie to pull in millions of dollars (ie "rake in a few bucks") and still be a bomb

well okay but my point was that this is, at least so far, apparently not being considered a bomb. which strikes me as unexpected/weird.

yeah what DJP said. Superman Returns and the Hulk movies are failures because they didn't launch long profitable franchises, but they still were #1 opening weekend and filled a bunch of theaters.

this mad 40mil on its first weekend in he US alone - it's not gangbusters, but all things considered it's not a disaster (yet).

argh *made

I watched the first half of Ang Lee's "Hulk" again over the weekend (missed the second half due to a concert obligation) and really, that movie is massively underrated IMO

agreed!

I liked the New Yorker suggestion that the studio could have saved millions simply by renting stock footage of car crashes and glass shards scattering all over the place.

it's a lot like 'pineapple express' in some ways, really awkward mashing together of registers, but because it has to be sold to teenagers it's even wronger. sometimes it's really violent (ie people die), sometimes cartoon-y.

i guess it's kind of a good thing that the hornet never has to brood over the nature of vigilanteism when seven innocent people die because of him. on the other hand there are loads of annoying meta jokes where rogen comments on the action, so it's odd he lacks the self-awareness to talk about these other aspects of the story.

it needed a producer.

i thought this was pretty fun -- 3D totally unnecessary but i still enjoyed myself -- thought waltz & esp chu were great in it -- & much like iron man i enjoyed the parts in the garage where we got to see the construction of the car & masks etc -- didn't really think rogen was that great in this, but he did have some good lines

i was bothered by the whole depiction of the newspaper as well -- also tons of logic fails throughout but what can you do

i was bothered by the whole depiction of the newspaper as well -- also tons of logic fails throughout but what can you do

― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, January 19, 2011 8:55 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

well, this is one reason they should have made it period

like, i have a digital audio file, i must... get to the newspaper office to upload it

reckon i would have liked twice as much in 2D. it might be because i wear glasses already (it's fucking ridiculous having two wear two pairs) but it looks murky, shitty, confusingly focussed, basically terrible almost all the time.

like, i have a digital audio file, i must... get to the newspaper office to upload it

yeah exactly

also cameron diaz as secretary/CIA-level researcher

also when cameron diaz is all "your dad wrote a great investigative piece!", because of how heads of newspapers that have $100 million dollar homes are always writing investigative articles about crime

just shit like that made me go "oh c'mon"

Oh c'mon, who cares.

This was much more of a blast than I'd been led to expect and Jay Chou was hilarious and incredibly cool at the same time, especially early on when he was wearing the red jumper.

(the 3D thing was fucking shit, of course. I pretended I was going to see CONVICTION so I didn't have to pay the surcharge)