Christoph Waltz joins The Green Hornet
If you’ve seen
Inglourious Basterds then you will know who
Christoph Waltz is. He stole the show as Col. Hans Landa, and is getting quite a lot of Oscar buzz for the role. Whenever there’s buzz surrounding an actor they always get a lot more movie offers, and according to
Deadline Hollywood Waltz has accepted one of them. Apparently he will be playing the villain in The Green Hornet, the same role that Nicolas Cage dropped out of playing last week.
Filming for
Green Hornet is currently under-way, so Waltz will probably get to work in the upcoming days or weeks.
Source:
Filmonic
Nic Cage Is Out Of The Green Hornet
The Green Hornet just can’t catch a break. The film’s production has been plagued with delays and disappointments for years now, but last week Seth Rogen’s Green Hornet started filming and it seemed as if all of that was finally behind them. And now there’s this: Nic Cage quits.
Cage was on board to play the movie’s villain but
The Hollywood Reporter says he never actually signed an agreement with Columbia Pictures. Now they’ve given up on trying to sign him and Nic is off to do something else, leaving director Michel Gondry to find a new dastardly evil doer for Seth Rogen to battle.
Though the movie’s been shooting in Los Angeles since last week nothing with Cage was filmed since, of course, he hadn’t signed on the dotted line yet. Presumably they’ll keep filming and save the movie’s bad guy moments until they actually have a bad guy to put in front of the camera.
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Cinema Blend
Nicolas Cage Explains Green Hornet Decision
A press release came out last week which confirmed that Nicolas Cage was in negotiations to play the gangster villain for the upcoming Michael Gondry and Seth Rogen adaptation of
Green Hornet.
Quick thereafter, news broke that
Nic Cage had turned down the role and left the project to instead work as the lead in two other films. Production was just starting so some were worried about them finding a worthy replacement quick. They sure as hell did though in bringing in to-be-Oscar-nominated
Inglourious Basterds star,
Christoph Waltz.
As to why Cage turned down the role, we now have the reason…
While promoting his film,
Bad Lieutenant, Port of Call: New Orleans at TIFF, Cage answered questions on the topic of Green Hornet explaining that his decision stemmed from creative differences (he’s not the first to leave for that reason, looking back on Stephen Chow who was set to direct and play Kato before).
Cage revealed that Rogen and Gondry had different ideas for the character than he did and he
“wasn’t interested in just being just a straight-up bad guy who was killing people willy-nilly.”
Instead, Cage wanted a character whose motivations made sense and whose evilness is explained and apparently there wasn’t the time to develop that into the script -
production began two weeks ago.
“The Green Hornet was something that I wanted to do, I think Michel Gondry is very talented and I had hoped it would work but I think Seth Rogen and Michel had a different take on the character,”
“I had to have some humanity and to try to give it something where you could understand why the character was the way he was but I don’t think there was enough time to develop it.”
It doesn’t really matter though anymore as he won’t be missed too much with
Christopher Waltz replacing him. Waltz made big name for himself with his epic performance in the latest Tarantino flick and he represents a significant upgrade over Mr. Cage.
Green Hornet hits theaters December 17, 2010.
Source:
Screenrant
First Green Hornet Set Photos
For more head over to
SuperHero Hype and
Just Jared.
The Green Hornet hits theaters December 17th, 2010.
The Green Hornet Delayed By 5 Months
A rather surprising piece of news has surfaced about the upcoming Seth Rogen comic book movie,
The Green Hornet - It has been pushed back a whopping 5 months, from its previous July 7th summer release date next year to December 17th. There’s been no official reason given for the move, but its star Rogen has responded himself to the news.
It has certainly been a rocky road for
The Green Hornet, with one notable obstacle being
Stephen Chow sadly dropping out, first as director, then as an actor in the role of the titular character’s sidekick, Kato. But with an extremely talented director coming on board in the form of
Michel Gondry, and recently
Nicolas Cage,
Cameron Diaz,
Edward James Olmos and
Jay Chou has also been rumored), it looked like things were firmly on the road for the release next summer.
However, as
HitFix notes, principle photography hasn’t even started yet, and the highly anticipated (arguably even more than this movie)
Predators would have made for heavy competition as it’s also scheduled to open on July 7th next year. On top of that, a December release sets
The Green Hornet apart from all the other summer movies that it will compete with.
HitFix managed to get in contact with Rogen, who has given his rather positive thoughts on the date move of The Green Hornet:
“We’re both [me and Michel Gondry are] relieved and psyched about the change. It gives more time for post [-production], which would have been immensely rushed if we were to come out in the summer. It also affords us more time to promote the film, (now we can go to Comic-Con with more than a car!) and ultimately is a great vote of confidence from the studio.”
With the troubled road that
The Green Hornet has had up until this point, we don’t want a rushed production to derail it now that it’s finally on-track. Five months does seem like a bit of a long time, but I’m still fine with it. July is still 11 months away, so a delay from that isn’t that big of a deal when we’re this far away. It’s not
a Harry Potter case where the original release date was only a few months away and THEN they suddenly decided to move it to the following year. Excitement and anticipation for
The Green Hornet hasn’t really started to properly gear up yet.
Will a comic book movie like
The Green Hornet do better with a pre-Christmas holiday release than it would have smack in the middle of summer? If the interest from the general movie going public is there for this rather strange sounding comic book movie, it will still be there in December as it was during the summer.
Source:
Screenrant
Jay Chou Officially Cast as Kato in Rogen's Green Hornet
Sony has confirmed via a press release today (
read it here) that they've cast Taiwanese actor
Jay Chou in the role instead. Chou is a singer and actor (much like Korean star
Rain) and a huge star throughout Asia and will definitely draw international crowds. “Jay is incredibly unique and charming and fights like a wild dog! When I filmed him next to Seth, they had such great chemistry, and I knew the movie will be great," director
Michel Gondry said about casting him.
"It's an overwhelming experience to take on a role made famous by Bruce Lee. I won't try to be Bruce Lee's Kato – I will try to bring my own interpretation to the part. Of course, it's a dream role, and I'm looking forward to the challenge." A classic character of film, television, radio, and comic books returns to the big screen in
Columbia Pictures' feature film The Green Hornet, starring Seth Rogen as the vigilante crime-fighter. This being directed by Michel Gondry from a screenplay written by Seth Rogen &
Evan Goldberg, based upon "The Green Hornet" radio series.
The Green Hornet is set to hit theaters on July 9th, 2010.
Source:
FirstShowing.net
Battlestar's Adama Joining The Green Hornet
Hollywood Snitch caught up with Edward James Olmos ("Blade Runner", "Battlestar Galactica" ) at Wizard World Chicago Comic-Con, and Olmos let them know that he’ll be in
The Green Hornet. No word on what part he’ll play.
"I'm on my way to do
The Green Hornet," Olmos told Hollywood Snitch. "It'll be a lot of fun.
The Green Hornet will star Seth Rogen, Cameron Diaz and Taiwanese actor Jay Chou, who was just announced as Stephen Chow's replacement as sidekick Kato. It is scheduled for release in 2010.
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Hollywood Snitch
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