HK Designers Compete to Create Bruce Lee Museum

Officials in Hong Kong have announced a design competition to turn Bruce Lee‘s home into a museum, according to a report by the Associated Press.

Hong Kong currently has no monuments commemorating Lee, and his former home is now a "love hotel" that charges couples $30 for three hours of romantic private time.

The Game of Death star was just 32 when he unexpectedly died in 1973 after suffering seizures and cerebral edema while working on Enter the Dragon. Lee’s producer, Raymond Chow, said after the autopsy that Lee had died from a sensitivity to the muscle relaxant in a painkiller he had taken for a headache.

Lee’s daughter, Shannon Lee, will serve as a judge on a panel with architects and town planners to choose a winning design for the museum, with $13,000 in prize money going to the winner. The government has also commissioned a documentary about the building of the museum, and a biopic about the star. Hong Kong officials are also collecting personal items and memorabilia for the future memorial.

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Seth Rogen Talks ‘Green Hornet’

Rogen Explains Why He’s Hornet

Seth Rogen told reporters that he and writing partner Evan Goldberg are putting the final touches on a proposed Green Hornet movie and confirmed that he will play the title character.

“I will, yeah,” Rogen said in a group interview in Los Angeles over the weekend while promoting his upcoming stoner comedy The Pineapple Express. “Don’t say it like that,” Rogen added, with his trademark snicker in response to the reporter?s tone.

Rogen promised that the movie, based on the ’30s radio serial and subsequent TV series, will be packed with action. But fans of Rogen’s Judd Apatow comedies, such as Knocked Up, may be in for a rude awakening if they expect the same brand of lewd humor in The Green Hornet.

“We have not hit many situations where you’re like, you know, ‘What would make this scene better?’ If Kato said c–ksucker? That hasn’t come up many times,” Rogen joked.

Still, many fans may be left scratching their heads at the notion that the guys who did Superbad are making a Green Hornet movie. Rogen offered this explanation: “To us, it was just this funny notion that, when you say Green Hornet to someone, the first thing they say is, ‘Hey, Bruce Lee played Kato in that show.’ We really wanted to make this hero-sidekick movie. … For years we’d really been trying to write a movie that was kind of about a hero and his sidekick. When we heard the Green Hornet movie was up for grabs, we thought that could be the perfect way to do this story, because he is the only hero whose sidekick is more known than he is. We thought it would be a good way to tell this relationship story and just do a big crazy action movie.”

He expected less trouble getting the action and violence of Green Hornet past the Motion Picture Association of America’s ratings board than he’s had with Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno, which was recently tagged with the dreaded NC-17.

“Luckily, the MPAA decided that violence is fine,” Rogen said. “When you’re doing an action movie, you can really have as much violence as you want. I’d say, action-wise, we’ve been able to do everything that we could have ever wanted.” –Jeff Otto

Source: SciFi Wire