Whats the deal with Green Hornet?
Here’s the skinny on The Green Hornet, Seth Rogen’s first foray into superhero action. Yes, the movie, an adaptation of the pulp fiction crime-fighter who vanquished fiends alongside his kung-fu-kicking chauffeur Kato, will shoot this year for a summer 2010 release. Yes, French filmmaker Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) is directing. And yes, the movie’s extensive action sequences inspired Rogen to shed his extra poundage. Ever since the project — which Rogen penned with his Superbad co-writer Evan Goldberg — was announced, it has been besieged by questions regarding its tone, style and content. Namely, will it be a spoof of the genre? Could it possibly be a pedal-to-the-metal action flick? Or, like last summer’s Pineapple Express, a marriage of both? Rogen suggests the third option. “Action and comedy aren’t mutually exclusive. I think you can have a big action epic with a bunch of funny parts. I saw the early Indiana Jones movies in the theatre and they killed.
