“The Green Hornet” was something of a missed opportunity. Michel Gondry, Seth Rogen, Christoph Waltz…really, something more interesting should have come out of it. But it was popular enough that it made $250 million worldwide, meaning it broke even in theaters and thus everything else is pure profit. So, sequel, right?
Not according to the producer.
The bad news is that this is because of accounting, and the producer, Neal Moritz, is actually pretty unpleasantly candid about why he’s turning out movies like “21 Jump Street” instead of movies that people might actually remember beyond next week, and that’s because Hollywood views anything original as “clutter”. We assure you, that’s an exact quote.
This plus the tanking of John Carter do not make us particularly excited for Hollywood’s upcoming slate of “product”.
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I don’t care what anyone says, Green Hornet was was great – way more satisfying than the superhero crap that came out the following summer (Green Lantern, Thor, Cap). It’s a shame they shoe-horned in the 3D and aren’t considering a sequel.
“Green Hornet” wasn’t bad, but “Thor” was a lot better, I felt. And the confusion is because Moritz also produced “Green Lantern”. Maybe Neal Moritz is just bad at making superhero movies.
Um, Neal H Moritz had nothing to do with Green Lantern. Maybe you just suck at commenting on the internet
Green Hornet would’ve been more tolerable if someone would’ve reigned Rogen in, instead of letting the film slide down into the depths his other movies: LOLOLOL FART LET’S SMOKE POT
*into the depths of his other movies
For the record – the article cited mentions both Green Lantern and Green Hornet. Unclear about which one is the typo (please let it be Hornet).
seth rogen sucked all of the dicks as the green hornet. It should have been called Asian Man kicks ass because that was the only thing I liked about the movie.
Thank God there is a 2 in the works. 1 was enough of a disappointment. They destroyed the Hornet character. Only thing that made it somewhat palatable was the Black Beauty and Kato. What a disaster of a movie. Rogen was possibly the worse choice for this character. Was a frigging disaster.
Thank God there is NO 2 in the works. 1 was enough of a disappointment. They destroyed the Hornet character. Only thing that made it somewhat palatable was the Black Beauty and Kato. What a disaster of a movie. Rogen was possibly the worse choice for this character. Was a frigging disaster.