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Seth Rogen's long overdue superhero movie
The Green Hornet appears to finally be taking shape after numerous setbacks including the loss of
Stephen Chow as director and Green Hornet's sidekick, Kato; the loss of
Nicolas Cage as the main villain, Chudnofsky; and a real bomb scare on the set that nearly derailed the production. However, with a big push for the movie set for the San Diego Comic-Con next week, Rogen is finally talking about the movie!
In a new interview with
Collider, Rogen said that the popularity of comic book movies among the general moviegoing audience has paved the way for studios to be more flexible with the approach filmmakers are taking to the genre.
"People are aware of [comic book culture]. It’s something that I’ve been a comic book fan since I was a kid, so to me and Evan, it’s always been inherent. We’ve always known who Jor-El was. Now a whole new generation of kids know who that is. So it’s nice as a fan to finally have pop culture catch up with your sensibilities for one thing and once that happens, you can subvert the genre a lot more because everyone’s far more aware of what it is that you’re subverting. The fact that everyone’s seen a hundred super hero movies at this point makes it a lot easier to play with the conventions because people know what to expect when you do something different. They know that you’re subverting it, and yeah, it’s something that as a comic book fan, it’s nice that it’s reached a wide enough audience at this point that you can almost deal with it as though the whole world was these nerdy comic book fans. It’s just part of the culture now. Everyone knows that Deadpool was part of the Weapon X program. The fact that that’s common knowledge among kids these days is mind-blowing to me. If you had told me that when I was a kid, 'One day, every kid will know this shit,' like it’s crazy and it’s really exciting now to be able to use the fact that everyone has this knowledge and this expectation from these movies to do what it is that we want to do creatively."
Rogen said that The Green Hornet himself, Britt Reed, is not really a fan of comic books, but he's up on the latest comic book movies, much like the majority of today's moviegoing audience.
"In the movie, he’s not particularly nerdy or into comic books, but he’s like how everyone is now. He’s like the guy who would go see Wolverine and X-Men. We didn’t wanna make him a particularly large comic book fan, but I feel like today just by being the type of person who engages in pop culture, you are almost by default a comic book fan. The fact that Dark Knight’s one of the biggest movies ever means that everyone’s kind of a comic book fan now, and we didn’t feel a need to bring up [Steven Spielberg's] Amazing Stories or whatever. It felt inherent in kind of what the world is at this point basically. (Seth looks around) It’s funny when you walk into these sets, and here’s what I’ve concluded: Britt Reed’s a big fan of guitarists, but not vocalists. There’s a lot of Santana and Joe Satriani posters around this room."
The Green Hornet opens January 14, 2011!
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