Seth Rogan Talks Green Hornet

At Comic Con we had a chance to sit down and talk with Seth Rogan about Superbad. Look for our interview hopefully sometime this afternoon. During said interview he talkeda bout the upcoming Green Hornet movie which frankly I dont think fits him at all. He says it will be like the sixties TV Show that was a cult hit and starred Bruce Lee. He wants it to be funny, and sexy, and although Seth Rogan is funny sexy he is NOT. Also their was a rumor running around that Stephen Chow would play Kato and according to Seth they have not even spoken to him yet. No word on the story but in a nutshell we can expect the same car, the same theme song and can expect it to be a mix of Indiana Jones and Lethal Weapon.  When was asked Seth Rogan about it at the SuperBad Press junket he told us,

I've always been a fan of [Green Hornet], and Evan is really into. We're writing it. We're trying to keep it as true to the 1966 TV series as possible. We want it to be an adventure action movie, somewhere in the world of "Lethal Weapon" and "Indiana Jones," I guess you would say. I mean, tonally that's kind of what we're striving for. We just want it to be fun and kick-ass. we're not doing like a goofy re-imagining of "The Green Hornet." You know, he's not get bitten by a radioactive hornet or anything like that. But we're making it urban.

We asked him about the Gas Can and the Car as well. The interesting part is that Seth said they Legally have to use the car. How interesting. Seth is One of my favorite actors but unless the Green Hornet has gone on a twinkie diet and is now fighting carbs instead of crime I am not sure how this is going to work. Is it going to be a comedy now? About an older washed up Hornet? Who knows! Seth Rogan has the acting chops, and is one of my fav actors but he most certainly doesnt have the physique. Then again I suppose he has the time to pull it all together.

 

The Green Hornet made his debut on January 31, 1936 on WXYZ Detroit, the creation of the station's George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, who also created the Lone Ranger. The series, which ran until 1952 on the Mutual and NBC Blue networks, followed the adventures of Britt Reid, a bored playboy whose life is changed when he inherits his father's crusading newspaper, The Daily Sentinel. He saves the life of Kato, a Japanese man with incredible technical and martial-arts skills, who becomes Britt's closest ally -- and transforms Britt's car into the supercharged Black Beauty, which gives them an edge as they search for evidence to expose the city's underworld in the newspaper. When Britt and Kato witness a brutal mob hit, Britt invents his secret identity -- taking his name from his powerful car's defective horn. A skilled fighter and expert marksman, the Green Hornet uses two special, non-lethal guns to subdue criminals: one fires a potent knock-out gas while the other produces the "Hornet's Sting" -- an electric shock.

Following its successful run on radio, The Green Hornet ran in several comic books. In 1966, the character made the jump to the small screen for one season on the ABC television network, starring Van Williams as the Green Hornet and catapulting Bruce Lee, who played Kato, to stardom.