I don’t care about the Green Hornet. I wanted to get that out of the way right up front. I don’t care about the Green Hornet in the same way I didn’t care about the Spirit: I don’t have a childhood love of the character, or the old serials, or the old TV show with Bruce Lee as crimefighter Britt Reid’s sidekick, Kato. And the only reason I cared about the Seth Rogen movie was the possibility of Kung Fu Hustle‘s Stephen Chow directing it. When he left the project, the care-o-meter went back to "eh."
But with the news that Michel Gondry is negotiating to direct Rogen’s Hornet, I’m all like a Faith No More song ("We Care a Lot," in case you couldn’t crack that nut). Not because I think it’ll be good — Ang Lee’s Hulk and David Lynch’s Dune are object lessons in what can happen when an indie iconoclast takes a whack at genre material — but because it’ll be Something to See. Could Gondry succeed where others have failed? Sure. I loved Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Dave Chappelle’s Block Party, and liked the heck out of Be Kind Rewind. But it could also be The Phantom.
What I do know is that, whatever we get, I can’t see Gondry’s Green Hornet being boring. How about you? Does this news make you more likely to pay to watch Seth Rogen fight crime, or more likely to avoid it at all costs?
All I know is that it has the best theme song other than The Greatest American Hero
Do you mean a FAITH NO MORE song… rather than “an Epic song”?? Faith No More was the band that we recorded “We Care A Lot,” followed by their album Epic.
Not that this has anything to do with Green Hornet. Just sayin.
omg. love Gondry. Did you guys read that story about him in Corduroy Magazine? He’s bizarre!
http://www.corduroymag.com/issues/current-issue
The Michel Gondry / Seth Rogen combo could be very interesting. And Gondry proved that he could do comedy on last week’s Flight of the Conchords:
http://gotchamedia.blogspot.com/2009/02/flight-of-conchords-too-many-dicks.html
SETH ROGEN AS THE GREEN HORNET IS A JOKE! If he’d take his fat ego out of it he’d realize that someone else should play the Hornet. I don’t care how much the guy works out, or loses weight, whatever…he doesn’t have the chops to play this character.
Hope it fails bigtime and then the empty suits who ok’d this movie with Seth as a superhero can cry in their freakin martini’s.
If the production is anything like the advertising one-sheet, it’s gonna suck. How about hiring an artist that has some sense of composition and perspective? Lame.
If the production is anything like the advertising one-sheet, it’s gonna suck. How about hiring an artist that has some sense of composition and perspective? Lame.
I’ll give anything Gondry does a chance, I think he’s genius.
Marc,
Nobody can crack your nut, because Epic is not a band. It is a song by a band.
Epic and We Care A Lot were both songs done by Faith No More.
um, “an indie iconoclast takes a whack at genre material?”
what about indie darling christopher nolan moving from memento to batman begins? and brian singer moving to the x-men franchise after the usual suspects? neither of these directors were “mainstream,” and then big studios took a chance on them, and look what happened. ang lee was much more mainstream at the time he made “the hulk” than nolan or singer ever were when they took on these projects.
LMAO! Bring back fake Asian “Bruce lee as a side kick MONKEY? LMAO!
Give me a fuckin’ break…
Actually, Rich, you are also incorrect, Epic was a song on Faith No More’s album The Real Thing.
Um… there wasn’t anything wrong with Lynch’s Dune. Herbert’s orignial material wasn’t magnificent to begin with, and the sequels are both relaively boring and obtuse (totally non-mainstream). Lynch’s vision remains – by miles – the best attempt to get Dune onto the screen. I rewatch it every couple years. Plus making a movie “something to see” is the only reason a movie gets greenlit. I’m kinda shocked Green Hornet is even a project – beyond the echo of the legend of Bruce Lee it… really sucked (sorry, but it did).
Mostly, I’m just curious to see what Seth Rogen will be like as a comic book hero.
Seth Rogen and The Green Hornet: NO. A Michel Gondry movie: YES!! I will see it because of Gondry to be sure. I am fascinated by his work.