Seth Rogen talks ‘Green Hornet’

Posted by Paige MacGregor (paige@filmschoolrejects.com) on August 17, 2007

Breakout comedic actor Seth Rogen is known primarily as the hefty, unattractive but devastatingly funny actor (with a gigantic ass) who gave life to Cal in The 40 Year Old Virgin (“You know how I know you’re gay?”) and, more recently, to Ben Stone in Knocked Up (“You know how they say to never drink and drive? Well, never drink and bone”).

Rogen’s latest project with writing partner Evan Goldberg, who co-wrote the recently released comedy Superbad, as well as the soon-to-be-released The Pineapple Express, on yet another film, this time not a comedy but a comic book inspired, “superhero-type movie” about the adventures of the Green Hornet and his partner in justice, Kato.

While Rogen and Goldberg have not yet finished negotiations with Kevin Smith, the current owner of The Green Hornet’s rights and the last scribe/director to take a stab at the film, ultimately decideding against directing it after writing an initial script, Rogen and Goldberg are optimistic about taking over for Smith. The pair say that they have opted against reading Smith’s original script, however: “I’m actually friends with Kevin Smith and he said I probably could read it if I wanted. I don’t want to. I have no interest right now in reading it I would say,” said Rogen.

Currently, Rogen is slated not only to write the new script for the cinematic adaptation of The Green Hornet, but to play the character as well, surprising given the star’s current appearance. “[I wonder] If they still have those things that they just electronically work out for you as you lay there doing nothing,” Rogen wondered in a recent interview.

Regardless, Rogen promises fans of The Green Hornet series a movie to remember. “We made ‘Pineapple Express’, which is an action-comedy,” said Rogen, “but the action is the thing that stood out to the people we’ve shown the movie to so far - and my favorite types of movies are action/adventure movies, so that’s what we’re trying to do. We really want to make it an awesome action movie.”

Source: MTV

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