Nic Cage in talks for 'Green Hornet'
Cameron Diaz negotiating for love interest role

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"Columbia Pictures is in early talks with Nicolas Cage to play the gangster villain in 'The Green Hornet.' Cameron Diaz is negotiating to play a reporter and love interest in the Michel Gondry-directed pic that stars Seth Rogen as the masked crime fighter. The picture is moving full steam ahead for a fall start date, even as the studio looks to replace Stephen Chow, who was going to play sidekick Kato. Rogen and Evan Goldberg wrote the script and Neal Moritz is producing through his Original Films banner. The picture is set for release next summer. Cage just completed 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' and remake 'The Bad Lieutenant.' Diaz is booked to star with Tom Cruise in the untitled James Mangold-directed action comedy that had formerly been titled 'Wichita,' for 20th Century Fox."

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118006269.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

FYI. Not sure what to make of this one.

7/21/2009 4:02:13 AM

This has been in production for a couple of years, not counting forever ago when Kevin Smith wrote the original script. Most people thought it was dead until Rogen came out yesterday and said, "WE'RE BUILDING SETS WE JUST NEED A KATO."

7/21/2009 4:36:40 AM

Hear me out:

7/21/2009 9:29:06 AM

The Black Beauty:

7/23/2009 6:20:05 PM

i loved this show when I was little

7/23/2009 6:45:13 PM

6/23/2010 9:32:19 AM

meh, i was expecting a more serious take on this after reading a lot about it. but i see it's resorted back the usual seth rogen musings

6/23/2010 10:16:42 AM

fuck more serious takes, we've had enough dark superhero films to last a little while.

6/23/2010 3:54:18 PM

I was expecting a less conventional take on superhero movies from Gondry, but maybe they just cut the trailer to look like your average superhero flick to get a wider audience interested in seeing it.

6/23/2010 3:56:12 PM

also, i have zero faith in Michel Gondry until he makes another good movie.

6/23/2010 4:01:17 PM

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"fuck more serious takes, we've had enough dark superhero films to last a little while."

I think Iron Man and Iron Man 2 have balanced the line between seriousness and fun quite perfectly.


I suppose I should have phrased my comments that I expected a more serious tone from Seth Rogen, i dunno...this movie has already gone through eleventy billion transformations

6/23/2010 4:24:36 PM

Looks like garbage.

6/23/2010 4:29:18 PM

Old school green hornets withbruce lee on scyfy right now

1/11/2011 3:50:20 PM

Based on the trailer, I thought it was a parody of superhero films until I realized that it was a real franchise near the end.

1/11/2011 5:18:24 PM

he's a character from the 1930's... the old radio shows were essentially superhero crossed with hard-boiled detective drama

he's also the great-grandnephew of the lone ranger, tho that really doesn't play too much in it

1/11/2011 7:20:33 PM

I'm sick of the commercials.

1/13/2011 11:41:51 PM

The movie was awesome. Go see it.

1/14/2011 11:40:13 PM

movie was much better than expected. A great matinee, imo. Entertaining, just dont take it too seriously, and you should enjoy it.

1/15/2011 8:26:55 AM

it was a fun flick in IMAX 3D. like the others said, don't take it too seriously and you should enjoy it.

1/15/2011 10:52:28 AM

saw it tonight- it was good. Of course, very outrageous, and I had to turn my normal "how/why the fuck is this happening" filter off, but I was fully entertained!

and Christoph Waltz continues to be a sadistically humorous villain- badass!

1/16/2011 12:18:06 AM

I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. I went in with low expectations.

1/17/2011 12:43:57 AM

This movie reaffirmed my hatred of Seth Rogen. Does he ever play a likeable character? I mean the main character of a movie is supposed to be a character people can relate to and who is generally likable. His characters in this, as well as every other movie (like "knocked up" and the mall cop movie) are just jerk assholes.

1/17/2011 2:10:53 AM

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"I mean the main character of a movie is supposed to be a character people can relate to and who is generally likable."

I see your misconception and I raise you two more.

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"His characters in this, as well as every other movie (like "knocked up" and the mall cop movie) are just jerk assholes."

1/17/2011 2:34:35 AM

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"I mean the main character of a movie is supposed to be a character people can relate to and who is generally likable."

since when?

1/17/2011 10:59:20 AM

ITT red baron 22 educates us about what a main character is supposed to be.

1/17/2011 11:16:44 AM

pretty decent movie, worth watching

Rogen isn't your typical superhero but the movie isn't terrible

pretty cool action scenes and some cool 007 Q-type gadgets

3/28/2011 9:43:26 PM

is it out on dvd already?

3/28/2011 10:01:21 PM

hayyyted it.

3/28/2011 11:08:56 PM

saw it at the dollar theater in gboro yesterday. I liked it a lot and it is definitely worth a rent AT LEAST.

3/29/2011 2:09:38 AM

this is one of the few movies that I liked but critics hated

3/29/2011 7:59:45 AM

Wait critics hated it?
I'm surprised. I saw it last week at the dollar fifty theater, and thought it was great. I wish I had seen it sooner.

4/8/2011 11:50:25 AM