Watch Observe and Report. Rogen could totally pull of the Green Hornet!

[Catman]

Rogen kicked some butt in that movie. I could totally see him as the Hornet now!

 

[NinjaTurtleFan]

Me too! Rogen was legendary! Now, if they could just cast Danny McBride in a cameo of some sort...we got ourselves a movie!

 

[Nivek]

I caught the movie too, I'm confident in him pulling off the action scenes.

 

[lou2099]

It seemed he can follow the fight choreographer direction well enough. Indeed that was an impressive cop fight scene, especially the throwdown with Liotta. And now that Rogen in better shape he could try more difficult stunts and fight moves...that insurance will allow.

As for his acting, while comedic, in O&R it had a dark element to it that we haven't seen in anything he's previously done. Let's hope he can focus that same energy once he finally dons the Hornet's mask.

 

[Comics N' Toons]

C'mon! So he can fight! Does that mean it's not going to still be complete cheeseball!

Clooney can fight, but look @ Batman & Robin!

 

[tomstoyz2]

I haven't seen the new movie yet you're talking about but ever since hearing he was gonna play this role I have felt sick. But now I'm thinking that maybe if he plays it "realistically" then he just might pull it off! He's been losing a lot of weight & maybe by the time they film this thing he just might LOOK like Green Hornet! Let's hope he's NOT a goof-ball in this movie.

 

[The Major]

Let's hope he's NOT a goof-ball in this movie.

Rogen confirmed it's going to be a comedy.

 

[Comics N' Toons]

Seriously, the GH wasn't made for this...

listen to the radio show & read the comics!

 

[Changeling]

He just said it wasnt going to be a comedy

 

[Comics N' Toons]

He just said it wasnt going to be a comedy

No he said it is a comedy!

that's the end of Rogen for me!

 

[Invisiboy]

When did he say it was going to be a comedy? Link?

 

[Kent Allard]

Seth Rogen confirmed his Green Hornet movie will be a comedy back in February when Michael Gondry was announced as the new director.

http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1605768/story.jhtml

Seth Rogen's high-profile superhero movie has a brand-new director — one of the most distinctive visionaries in Hollywood — and the star can only use three words to describe how he's feeling about it.

"It's ----- crazy!" he said when we spoke with him Tuesday, accentuating the point with his trademark laugh (which was imitated by Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard backstage at the Oscars).

His new "Green Hornet" collaborator is none other than Michel Gondry, the eye-popping auteur who gave us "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," "Be Kind Rewind," and too many classic music videos to list here. Capping off an exhaustive search, the "Pineapple Express" funnyman said Gondry is the perfect director for his comedic take on the crime-fighting newspaper publisher who first slipped into his green mask in 1936.

"Me and [co-writer] Evan [Goldberg] have always been gigantic fans of [Gondry]," Rogen beamed. "We just like anyone who thinks outside the box, and there's really nobody who thinks more outside the box then he does; he's really a magician in a lot of ways."

Serving as writer, producer and star of the film that begins shooting soon, Rogen admitted that he had always been pulling for Gondry to land the high-profile gig — and even helped the French filmmaker get an inside track. "I've actually been e-mailing with him for a really long time, because he was involved with the project a long time ago," he explained. "With the permission of nobody, I sent him our script ... to get his input and ideally convince the studio to meet with him. They were skeptical of ... I wouldn't say his ability to make a giant budget studio movie, but his willingness to make a giant budget studio movie. But he loved the script, he totally got it, which a lot of [potential directors] just didn't."

Gondry loved the "Green Hornet" script so much, in fact, that he began filming it immediately. "To convince the studio to let him do it, he filmed a fight scene on his own," Rogen marveled. "He just hired stunt men and did it by himself! Just to show some of the stuff he could do, some of the weird filming techniques he has and some of the stuff he can pull off. I mean, this is something he did in two days and it was instantly unlike anything you've ever seen before. It was impossible not to hire him once he presented what he could do for it."

Now, Rogen and Goldberg are looking forward to blending their unique "Superbad" sensibility with a decades-old crime-fighter and a thoroughly modern filmmaker. And while he assured us that the result will prominently feature Gondry's knack for making ordinary things look extraordinary, he was quick to say that the film won't simply be the Gondry we've come to expect.

"My direct quote to [Gondry] right before he met with the studio was, 'You have to convince them they're not gonna show up on set one day and everything is gonna be made out of cardboard,' " laughed Rogen. "And he said, 'I can definitely do that.' "

"["The Green Hornet"] will be a great combination of both of our movies, of both of our styles," Rogen said of the film, which hits theaters June 25, 2010. "It should have the type of conversational tone and comedy that me and Evan have been doing — and some of the action that we have been starting to try to do — along with the wild, visual imagination and funny awkward sensibility that he's been doing."

 

[Invisiboy]

To the first highlight: An aside from some writer, not a confirmation from Rogen himself.

To the second highlight: Immediately after that he says, "— and some of the action that we have been starting to try to do." This is in line with what Seth has been saying all along, which is that it will be an "action movie with comedic ELEMENTS"—in other words, no different tone-wise than RDJ's Iron Man or Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man, both of which are fan favorites.

Honestly, if he was going to make this a comedy, he would have just came out and said it at the start, instead of saying "action movie" and dropping subtle hints that imply "comedy".

There is a chance that he might pull a fast one on us like Will Ferrell did with his crappy 'Land of the Lost' remake, but if so, we won't know until a trailer hits.

Until then, chetare(It's Italian, look it up.).

 

[lou2099]

There is a chance that he might pull a fast one on us like Will Ferrell did with his crappy 'Land of the Lost' remake, but if so, we won't know until a trailer hits.

And even then we probably won't know.

 

[Da-Scribe]

From what Rogen's said, it seems like this should be in line with Iron Man in terms of the humor. Even if it is as comedic as what we're used to seeing from Rogen, well I just think of Venture Bros. and the Robot Chicken: Star Wars specials.

 

[shopaholic10]

I will definitely watch this!