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.

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)