Defamer was just lamenting yesterday that Seth Rogen had become totally svelte all for naught when word came down that “The Green Hornet” project had its stinger pulled and the project was essentially knocking on heaven’s door.
Then AICN (Harry Knowles) challenged the original “project dead” report (penned by one of their former writers Drew McWeeny) and claimed they had a better source who said the project was still on.
Then late yesterday Seth Rogen himself echoed the sentiment. But he had enough and emailed Hitflix’s McWeeny with a very annoyed, “hey dude, we’re still very much alive.”
“‘The Green Hornet’ has many people working for it, including production designers, costume designers and many conceptual artists, office staff, etc.,” he said during our e-mail exchange back and forth. “[The studio heads] have every intention on making it, and assuming we’re able to hire a new director in the upcoming weeks, which seems like a distinct possibilty, it should still hit the release date.”
Hitflix says Stephen Chow appears to still be on board as Kato, and all the project now needs is a director. So ‘Green Hornet,’ still trucking ahead. Cool, yeah? [ed. no, not really, but whatever]
But the story doesn’t quite end right there. After McWeeney’s Rogen story, which includes a mea culpa, AICN’s Harry Knowles did a rotund “nyah! nyah!” jig around the basement at Hitflix’s expense with plenty of mudslinging “toldja sos!” and schadenfreude.
It appears the Knowles’ rambling unfunny post is just a light jab at his former co-worker, but one can’t help but detect some bitterness. As McWeeny calmly puts it, “Harry is itching for a fight.”
See what you’ve started Seth Rogen?
