I love Michel Gondry and I love Seth Rogen, but I’m not completely sure if they’re the two names that would instantly pop into my head to bring The Green Hornet to the big screen:
“Hornet” follows the adventures of Britt Reid [Rogen], a bored playboy who inherits his father’s crusading newspaper, the Daily Sentinel…
The choice of Gondry, the helmer behind off-the-beaten-path films such as “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “The Science of Sleep” and “Be Kind Rewind,” signals that the creative direction the studio and the film’s producer, Neal Moritz, are trying to take the project is one not usually associated with the usual crime-fighter movie.
I love pizza and ice cream too, but that doesn’t mean I’d put ice cream on pizza and ask it to bring The Green Hornet to the big screen, you know? And not just because they’re inanimate things not capable of thinking or speaking.
Although I suppose if ice cream and pizza DID make a superhero movie together, I wouldn’t ask questions, and I’d DEFINITELY be there opening night, so, in conclusion, this movie will be awesome. But if Joaquin Phoenix is named Executive Producer tomorrow and we quickly realize this project is an elaborate nerd-hoax, I won’t be surprised.
