Kato (Stephen Chow) Leaves ‘Green Hornet’ Production
July 15, 2009 by tcgames · Leave a Comment
Stephen Chow, who was set to play the key role of Kato in the Green Hornet film (see “Green Hornet Debut Set for July 9th, 2010”), is leaving the production, according to the Hollywood trades. The film is set to begin shooting in September for a July 2010 release, and that’s not expected to change.
The departure is over scheduling issues, and is amicable.
Cameron Diaz has been added to the cast as the female lead; Seth Rogen is starring.
Dynamite is producing a Green Hornet comic series written by Kevin Smith (see “Kevin Smith on Green Hornet Comet”).
Rogen Admits ‘Green Hornet’ Still Needs a Kato
March 19, 2009 by tcgames · Leave a Comment
Perhaps it’s because I strongly believe that Stephen Chow would be the only reason to see The Green Hornet, but all the news that’s popped up in the past three months or so has really soured me on the TV superhero update. Chow was going to direct (brilliant) and play Kato, a role originated back in the 1960s by Bruce Lee. Then he wasn’t directing and he wasn’t so sure about Kato, either.
So until this week, all we knew was that Chow might play Kato, that Michel Gondry was the new pick to direct and that Seth Rogen was still going to star (he also co-wrote the script). I don’t have any particular interest in Rogen playing Green Hornet, and I think Gondry, as good as he is, could be the incorrect choice to direct.
And at SXSW, Cinema Blend asked Rogen for a status update, and it’s condition critical, in my opinion. "We have no 100% official Kato at this point," he admitted.
Oh boy.
Adam Sandler in The Green Hornet ?
In an article at The Los Angeles Times , the author writes that there’s a possibility that Adam Sandler will appear in Sony’s The Green Hornet opposite Seth Rogen: I also heard a random rumor about the ‘Hornet’ film: Two different people in the industry told me that Adam Sandler has a brief but key role in the movie as a certain surprise superhero…I heard which one, too, but I don’t want to ruin it.
Sandler and Rogen have another project together as well. The studio has yet to announce a new director after Stephen Chow dropped out (he’s still expected to play Kato), but it is still targeting a June 25, 2010 release.
Source: ComingSoon.net
Seth Rogen Talks ‘Green Hornet’
June 30, 2008 by tcgames · Leave a Comment
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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
