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By John Cooper on August 31st, 2009 -

Green Hornet Delayed

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It’s pretty hard for me to get too excited about The Green Hornet. The Michel Gondry/Seth Rogen/Evan Goldberg film has plenty of potential but I’ve seen nothing interesting about it due to the amount of times it’s been completely shafted by studio politics and silliness. Now, the film’s release has been pushed back 5 months, to December 17, 2010.

This is indicative of bad things, in my opinion. Possibly, it means a lack of faith in the film’s success on behalf of the studio. Hitfix recently obtained a quote from Seth Rogen regarding the delay, however:

“It gives more time for post, which would have been immensely rushed if we were to come out in the summer. It also affords us more time to promote the film, (now we can go to Comic-Con with more than a car!) and ultimately is a great vote of confidence from the studio.”

I can’t say I agree with Rogen, but I could be even less optimistic if he wasn’t. Time will tell if Gondry can shape this into a worthy film that hits all of the comedic action notes Rogen and Goldberg intended.

By the way, Jay Chou is the new Kato (a role originated by Bruce Lee on television), with Rogen acting as the Green Hornet. Alongside them will be Cameron Diaz, Nicolas Cage (!?), and Edward James Olmos (!!).

Fingers firmly crossed.

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  • Plus1
    With the release date being pushed back this tells me that there could be a lack of faith on the banking of Seth Rogen. Maybe his boat has finally sailed within Hollywood. I think another fear is that the Comic Book public want real movies, not super hero movies that are comedies. How can you take this movie serious with Seth Rogen as the star? That slaps of the talks from a few years ago when they wanted Jack Black to be a silly Green Lantern and turn that character into a comedy. YIKES!
  • I think Seth Rogen has the capacity to do it, but with production messes like this, the original vision of the film gets muddied and confused, and the tone gets lost.
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