Rogen says 'there's a more comedic version and less comedic version'

Seth Rogen speaks about the Green Hornet :hmm:

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=39720

MTV caught up with Seth Rogen and asked him about his planned adaptation of The Green Hornet comics at Sony. In the interview, he says "there's a more comedic version and less comedic version," and they're not sure what will be the right one yet. Here's a clip:


"Just a few weeks ago, [co-writer Evan Goldberg and I] laid out our outline for the movie to the studio, and before the phone call, Evan and I were like, 'This is not like any superhero movie — they might just hate that,' " Rogen recalled. " 'It's not using any of the normal superhero movie formats. It's not an origin story. It's more like a regular action movie.' [But] they really liked it and told us to go for it."


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...his [Seth Rogen's] "Green Hornet" will be like no superhero movie we've ever seen before, the 25-year-old star insisted.

"Just a few weeks ago, [co-writer Evan Goldberg and I] laid out our outline for the movie to the studio, and before the phone call, Evan and I were like, 'This is not like any superhero movie — they might just hate that,' " Rogen recalled. " 'It's not using any of the normal superhero movie formats. It's not an origin story. It's more like a regular action movie.' [But] they really liked it and told us to go for it."

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But while Rogen and Goldberg are committed to action, the writing duo actually have two outlines for the movie, the actor confessed, similar in some respects but varying greatly in tone.

"There's a more comedic version and a less comedic version, and we don't know what will feel right until we're actually writing it," he revealed to MTV News. "We were about to start writing the script, and then the [writers'] strike hit.

"It's really hard to wrap our head around what the movie will be until we've written the script," he added.

But while Rogen admitted to vacillating between the two versions, he's anything but ambivalent on another tough decision, unabashedly banging the drum for one of two actors to play Kato, the Hornet's Asian manservant and partner in crime.

"I think what's most important about the Kato part is it's someone that you believe can kick the *beep* out of a lot of people," Rogen said of the role made famous by Bruce Lee in the late-'60s television version. "['Kung Fu Hustle' star] Steven Chow is incredible. That was someone we had talked about. I'm a big Tony Jaa fan also."

On the matter of a director, however, Rogen was less committal. "We're always thinking of people who we wouldn't think of. We want guys who will bring something new to the table," he said. "There are two schools of thought: You can get the guy who's a great action-movie director, who's done a million action movies. Or you get the guy who's never done it but has fresh ideas.

"[In the end] we want someone who will make it better than we could have made it," he concluded.