‘The Green Hornet’ moves release dates thanks to Adam Sandler’s ‘Grown Ups’
Columbia has moved Michel Gondry’s upcoming adaptation of TV’s The Green Hornet back two weeks to accommodate Denni Dugan’s comedy, Grown Ups. Green Hornet will be moving from June 25, 2010 to July 9, 2010 while Grown Ups moves from March 12th to a spiffy new June 15th date.
Columbia is hoping to rake in some cash before the third entry in the tween vampire series, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, drops in to swoon suburban goth girls.
The Green Hornet stars Seth Rogen as newspaper publisher Britt Reid. When not working to save his daily from the evil of the economy, he puts on a green mask and saves damsels.
Fuzzy face.
According to an interview by Rogen while promoting Monsters vs. Aliens in Australia earlier this year, the co-scribe and star, stated that the film will be an “origin story,” but not in the traditional sense. “…it’ll be unlike every other superhero film out there,” he mentioned to The Jono & Dano Show. The story will mainly focus on Green Hornet’s origin as a news man, but will also highlight the special bond between Hornet and his faithful man-servant Kato (played by former Green Hornet director Stephen Chow). Adding another info-nugget, the story will also present Britt Reid as a “normal guy” whereas Kato is the “superhero.”
Dugan’s Grown Ups stars the fabo cast of Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Rob Schneider and the lovely Ms. Salma Hayek. The story is about five best friends from high school who reunite 30 years later on a Fourth of July weekend.
Dugan has also directed Big Daddy and Happy Gilmore.
