Splash News today gives us our first look at The Green Hornet, Seth Rogen’s comedic take on the old time superhero being directed by Michel Gondry, who once drew me a tranny. No word on why the crew member in the picture is wearing a surgical mask, but Rogen has that unmistakable “I just farted” smirk on his face. But he’s Canadian. I hear that sort of thing is encouraged over there. It keeps the moose from eating the crops. Denim crops.
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We were all pretty disappointed when Nic Cage dropped out of Seth Rogen and Michel Gondry’s The Green Hornet last week when he and Sony couldn’t come to a deal. But now that Christoph Waltz has taken his place, everyone’s pretty happy. See? Everything happens for a reason. Ha, just kidding. Next time someone tells you that, take a dump in their fishtank, then see what they say.
I’m told that ICM’s actor Christoph Waltz who won Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival for playing a Nazi in Inglourious Basterds (and is a shoo-in for an Oscar nomination) has now been cast as villain Chudnofsky in Sony’s The Green Hornet opposite Seth Rogen and Cameron Diaz. Since Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds came out — and crossed the $100M mark this weekend – Waltz has been offered a lot of big movies by a lot of big directors. And he’s getting big bucks now. How great he’s found success at age 52. [DeadlineHollywoodDaily]
‘Chudnofsky’, of course, was Darren Aronofsky’s nickname at clown college. Anyway, Waltz definitely adds some acting chops to the picture, though the whattafuh? factor (which is especially important when you’ve already got Seth Rogen playing the Green Hornet) would’ve been higher with Cage. But from what I hear, Waltz isn’t the only one bringing home the big bucks these days. Why, just this weekend, Gary Busey headbutted two of them to death. Later it turned out one of them was just Nic Cage dressed as a bear, but Busey said it still counts.
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Ever since Nic Cage won me over with is “this is my lucky crack pipe” line delivery in Bad Lieutenant, I’ve been dying to see him in anything that doesn’t involve magic, treasure, or Jerry Bruckheimer. Sadly, the forehead has left one such project, Seth Rogen’s comedic take on the Green Hornet.
Cage was to play the villain in Columbia’s action movie, being directed by Michel Gondry, but the actor and the studio were not able to come to terms on a deal. No scenes with Cage were on shot for the movie, which just began principal photography in Los Angeles last week. [THR]
Bummer about Nic Cage, but I’m sure he’ll manage to keep a stiff upper face about this whole thing, he always does. Also, and I’m just throwing it out there, there’s still time to cast the tranny Michel Gondry drew for me. Think about it. This is what Nic Cage would’ve wanted.
Here’s video of Seth Rogen on Jimmy Kimmel last night. The back story on this is that Rogen was explaining how the first time he was on the show, he was on with Megan Fox before the first Transformers. She was going on after him and she was nervous, so before the show she came to his dressing room to ask if he’d stay onstage during her interview. He agreed, and thought when she came out, he’d seize probably the only opportunity he’d ever have to sneak a peck on the cheek from Megan Fox. Only she disses him. On national TV. Then Kimmel plays the clip, and it’s every bit as bad as promised. She kisses Kimmel on the cheek, then walks by Rogen, and as he leans in, she totally ignores him. And the saddest part isn’t the rejection, it’s his instantaneous knowing acceptance of it. “Yeah, I get it, I probably wouldn’t kiss me either.” You poor bastard. I used to be like that, before I learned how to be smooth around girls. You don’t go begging for kisses on the cheek like some schlubby pussy. You just gotta sock ‘em in the arm and go “Hey, does this rag smell like chloroform to you?”
And then it’s Miller time.
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Christ, I should be working at the Enquirer with these headlines. Anyway, we all remember when Katherine Heigl whined because Knocked Up was sexist, right? Good. Well Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow recently went on Howard Stern, who naturally asked them about her. They responded by saying the obvious things, but it was still cool because Katherine Heigl is a bitch.
Rogen says he doesn’t see how Heigl’s new comedy, The Ugly Truth, makes women look even better. “That [movie] looks like it really puts women on a pedestal in a beautiful way,” he quipped.
Added Apatow, “I hear there’s a scene where she’s wearing … Underwear …with a vibrator in it, so I’d have to see if that was uplifting for women.”
Even more baffling, said Apatow, “We never had a ‘fight’” with Heigl while filming. “Seth always says, it doesn’t make any sense - she improvised half her s***,” Apatow said. [USWeekly]
And then Rogen was all, “Yeah dude, it’s like she doesn’t even have a BRAIN!” and I looked over and he was totally holding his nuts so it looked like a brain. So hilarious, bro, you should’ve been there.
