TRAILER!: The Green Hornet

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TRAILER!: The Green Hornet

POSTED: Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 12:14 AM

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When it was announced that Michel Gondry would helm the new Green Hornet movie, written by BFFs Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and starring Rogen, I had a small fit. I saw this potential combo of Iron Man-like wit backed by a director with strong visual credentials, led by an affable persona who never came off as better than thou (RDJ's Tony Stark), perpetually pre-pubescent (Tobey Maguire's Spiderman) or in serious need of a good therapist — not to mention a Ricola (Christian Bale's Batman). In short, it would be something different. But looking at the first trailer for the would-be epic collabo only leaves me downtrodden. Where is the Gondry touch? The puffs of green smoke that emits from the gas gun has Gondry cartoonality, but otherwise, this is just another big budget movie with needless arthouse credentials (call it the Finding Forrester of the comic book genre). But what if this is just Sony's way of reassuring the American public that they didn't just dump millions of dollars into something that deviates from the norm? The Green Hornet was supposed to come out during the Christmas dollars rush, but was pushed to the January wasteland, which doesn't bode well for anyone involved (including us) but I've held onto the notion that studio execs are more interested in ducats then creative expression. And I'm going to continue to hold on to the notion that this travel is a clever rouse to distract us from what's really going on: a truly awesome movie.

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