Edward James Olmos says 'Green Hornet' is 'finally coming together'

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Yvonne Villarreal caught up with Edward James Olmos and wrote up this Hero Complex report on the seemingly snakebitten (or is it bee-stung?) production of "The Green Hornet."... -- G.B. 

It's been easy to get dizzy while watching the shaky flight path of "The Green Hornet" film project.

The movie was planned as a serious mystery-man action film but then became a comedy. Stephen Chow came in as both a co-star and director, but now he is off the project completely. A few weeks ago, word spread that Nicolas Cage was in negotiations to play the movie villain, but he says that in the end, he didn't find what he wanted in the role.

The movie, with Michel Gondry ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind") in the director's chair, is now filming in Southern California (and even dropped by the Los Angeles Times offices for a scene the other day). One of the stars, Olmos, said the project is humming along nicely despite all the turbulence and that, personally, it's a treat to work on a film with big sets and distinctive imagery.

“I’ll put it to you this way -- it’s quite a fun journey,” Olmos said. “It’s my first time doing this kind of a movie. 'Blade Runner' is the only thing that comes close to this. I’m having a lot of fun. People are really going to like what we’ve done. ...”

That key role in 1982's "Blade Runner" as the engimatic cop Gaff would have been enough to earn Olmos career cred with fanboys, but of course he added his true signature role years later in the reboot of "Battlestar Galactica." He's not done with the trials and tribulations of William Adama (more on that below), but at the moment his focus is on Michael Axford, a reporter at the Daily Sentinel, in Columbia Pictures' revival of “The Green Hornet,” due in theaters in December 2010.

The film stars the now-svelte Seth Rogen as Britt Reid, the playboy newspaper publisher who moonlights as the masked crime fighter. Rogen co-wrote the script with Evan Goldberg ("Superbad"). The action hero comedy is based on the character created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker for a radio program in the 1930s that went on to spawn movie serials in the early 1940s and a short-lived but memorable 1960s television series that helped introduce Bruce Lee to America. 

Olmos’ character works alongside James Reid, publisher of the Sentinel and father of Britt.

“We’re the backbone of the paper,” he said.  “Things go awry, and I end up having to try to sustain what’s going on in our lives. And of course the Green Hornet doesn’t make it any easier. I don’t want to give anything away.“

Olmos recalled watching the 1960s live-action show, which featured martial-arts icon Lee as the Hornet’s sidekick Kato.

 “It was really kind of campy,” Olmos said. “I liked it. The Green Hornet was a very different kind of a hero -- this character who becomes kind of a bad guy in order to get the bad guy. It was fun to watch that dynamic.”

Chow is out as the new Kato, and Taiwanese actor Jay Chou is now in. And “Inglourious Basterds” antagonist Christoph Waltz -- not Cage -- will portray Chudnofsky, the Green Hornet’s nemesis.

“It took a while, but things are finally coming together,” said Olmos, who revealed he has one major stunt in which he gets zapped. “I think it’s going to be very exciting. People will find that it’s different than what they expect. Seth is doing a wonderful job. There’s a lot of everything. It’s going to be action-filled, and there’s a lot of humor in the situations. It’s really a well-crafted piece of work. Hopefully people will enjoy it and we’ll have a few of these films.”

But how about that other franchise? Olmos has directed and stars in “The Plan,” a spinoff TV movie of the sci-fi phenomenon “Battlestar Galactica.” The plot focuses on the Cylon machinations that led to doomsday for the human colonies. It will air this fall. 

“It will make the fans want to see the entire series all over again.” Olmos said. “The movie is such a complement to everything they understood. It answers a lot of their questions … and poses more questions.”

And he wouldn’t be opposed to continuing the story beyond that.

“If there’s a huge response, I think more movies will definitely result. The fans aren’t done with the story. As long as they want more, we have to find a way to give it to them.”

And what about that proposed feature film that would be more beholden to the 1970s "Battlestar"? Bryan Singer is signed to direct and produce, and original show creator Glen A. Larson is on board as producer, and Olmos has nothing but words of polite support.

“I just hope they have a wonderful time and they make a great movie,” he said.  “It’s a great franchise, and Larson has the right to do anything he wants with it. I’m very, very curious to see how it will turn out.”

So say we all. ...

-- Yvonne Villarreal

Photo (top): Edward James Olmos. Credit: Gus Ruelas / Associated Press

Photo (bottom): "The Green Hornet" / Los Angeles Times archive

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Be Kind, Kato! Michel Gondry directing 'Green Hornet'

Variety is reporting that Michel Gondry, director of the fun if not well-attended film "Be Kind, Rewind" and the Jim Carrey-starring "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," will take on the recently vacated role of director on "The Green Hornet."

The Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg-written tale of Britt Reid's alter ego crime-fighter and his cool, kicking sidekick is still listed for a 2010 release.  Stephen Chow dropped the directing duties, though he is still attached to take on the Kato role made popular by Bruce Lee alongside Rogen's title character.

Times reporter Deborah Netburn once asked Gondry what he'd like to 'swede,' or do an extremely low budget remake of, in terms of Oscar films.  His answers are to the right, and they don't include "Green Hornet."

-- Jevon Phillips

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Neil Gaiman, Barack Obama, 'Watchmen' all in Everyday Hero headlines

Welcome to Everyday Hero, your roundup of handpicked headliens from across the fanboy universe...

"GRAVEYARD" WINS NEWBERY: Congrats are in order for Neil Gaiman, whose latest work has been awarded the Newbery Medal. Here's the announcement: "The 2009 Newbery Medal winner is 'The Graveyard Book' by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Dave McKean, and published by HarperCollins Children's Books. A delicious mix of murder, fantasy, humor and human longing, the tale of Nobody Owens is told in magical, haunting prose. A child marked for death by an ancient league of assassins escapes into an abandoned graveyard, where he is reared and protected by its spirit denizens. 'A child named Nobody, an assassin, a graveyard and the dead are the perfect combination in this deliciously creepy tale, which is sometimes humorous, sometimes haunting and sometimes surprising,' said Newbery Committee Chair Rose V. Treviño." Over at his online journal, Gaiman has a fun account of how he got the big news: "I was not yet sure what was going on or who was trying to do what. It was 5:45 in the morning. No-one had died, though, I was fairly certain of that. My cell-phone rang. 'Hello. This is Rose Trevino. I'm chair of the ALA Newbery Committee...' Oh. Newbery. Right. Cool. I may be an honors book or something. That would be nice, 'and I have the voting members of the Newbery Committee here, and we want to tell you that your book...' 'THE GRAVEYARD BOOK,' said fourteen loud voices, and I thought, I may be still  asleep right now, but they probably don't do this, probably don't call people and sound so amazingly excited, for Honors books....'...just won...' 'THE NEWBERY MEDAL' they chorused. They sounded really happy. I checked the hotel room because it seemed very likely that I was still fast asleep. It all looked reassuringly solid. You are on a speakerphone with at least 14 teachers and librarians and suchlike great, wise and good people, I thought. Do not start swearing like you did when you got the Hugo. This was a wise thing to think because otherwise huge, mighty and fourletter swears were gathering. I mean, that's what they're for." VIDEO EXTRA: Want to see a trailer for "The Graveyard Book" and hear Gaiman reading from "Graveyard"? Go to the end of this post....

JEEZ, THIS GUY AGAIN?: OK, it was cool when there was a graphic novel biography of Barack Obama (especially since it was very well done) and it was fun when Alex Ross drew that picture of Obama in superhero mode. It was also kinda endearing to find out that the 44th president is a Conan the Barbarian fan and everybody certainly got excited when the new president showed up in the pages of Spider-Man but, well, can we just tone down at this presidential fanboy stuff for awhile? Apparently not. There's a fourth printing of the comic book issue featuring the meeting between Savage Dragon and Obama, which I believe was the first comic-book appearance by a politico in a nationally distributed comic book. Matthew Brady at Newsarama has the scoop on it. Considering that Spider-Man issue also flew off of shelves in multiple printings, I'm guessing we haven't seen the last comic book cover featuring the new leader of the free world. I'm hoping for an Obama team-up with Herbie the Fat Fury. UPDATE: Wow, so Eric Larsen, the creator of Savage Dragon, is more than a little miffed at Marvel and says they stole his approach, some of his ideas and a lot of his thunder when Spidey met Obama. You can read his rant here and a Marvel editor's rebuttal here. What's my take? Well I pretty much loathe all gimmicky superheroes-meet-contemporary-famous-people issues because they always read like those old wretched Radio Shack comics with Superman. So I'll just sit this one out...

A "HORNET'S" NEST: I had lunch with some of the Industrial Light & Magic folks at a great place called Magnolia over on Sunset Boulevard and while we were talking about Jim Cameron's "Avatar" we heard a distinctive laugh at the next table -- we knew it was Seth Rogen before we even looked over. I debated the idea of going over before his food arrived and asking a question or two about "The Green Hornet" but I opted not to because, well, who wants to bug a guy while he's relaxing at lunch? Anyway, there's been much discussion of "Hornet" after the strange doings with Stephen Chow who was brought in as Kato, then helped steer the all-action film into a comedy project, signed on as director and then quit that job over creative differences -- but differences that weren't intense enough for him to abandon the Kato role. Got all that? Rogen is the co-writer of the film and the title character and while the project helped him get in trim shape, it's not yet clear what else he is accomplishing with it. (I also heard a random rumor about the 'Hornet' film: Two different people in the industry told me that Adam Sandler has a brief but key role in the movie as a certain surprise superhero...I heard which one, too, but I don't want to ruin it. Sandler and Rogen have another project together as well.) With all the fits and starts it's no wonder we keep reading things like this dispatch from Drew McWeeny: "It looks like 'The Green Hornet' is about to collapse again, and if this particular configuration doesn't happen, then I suspect it never will. Ever since Stephen Chow started to waffle about his participation in the film, I've been hearing rumors that there were major hesitations at Sony.  Then at Sundance, I heard several people say that the film was off completely.  I spoke this afternoon with a source close to the film, and while they didn't call it completely dead, they did say it is 'highly unlikely' that the film will shoot in 2009 at all." [Hit Fix]

LEAPING LIZARDS, IT'S "V": Last month we brought you an in-depth look at the past and future of the classic TV sci-fi epic "V" and here's an update via a blurb in one of the trades: "ABC is flashing the 'V' sign.The network has given a pilot order to a reimagining of the 1980s miniseries about an alien invasion. Written on spec by '4400' co-creator/exec producer Scott Peters, the new 'V' will center on a female Homeland Security agent. Peters is exec producing the pilot with HDFilms principal Jason Hall. Two ABC pilots picked up so far this pilot season are presold titles based on 1980s properties, 'The Witches of Eastwick' and 'V.'" [Hollywood Reporter]

RANDOM  PLUG: I covered the Screen Actors Guild Awards last night and had a great time backstage. You can read the story here if you like that kind of stuff.

THIS JUST IN...SUPERMAN EXISTS AND HE'S AMERICAN: Here's yet another "Watchmen" video for your enjoyment. Considering all the ancillary videos that have been cooked up for the movie (and, of course, "The Black Freighter" featurette) I'm predicting now that the "Watchmen" Blu-ray will be a pretty staggering package...

          

ON THIS DATE: Comic book artist Silvio "Sal" Buscema is celebrating his 72nd birthday today. Sal got his start in the 1960s as inker for his brother, John Buscema, and Sal came into his own with long runs of work on "The Incredible Hulk," "Captain America," "Spectacular Spider-Man" and one of my faves, "The Defenders." Sal was a utility player in the Marvel bullpen often doing emergency fill-in issues and inking others between doing his own pencil and ink work and while he is considered more steady than spectacular by fans, his style really evolved through the years and his knack for clear storytelling was a key part of the Marvel glory years.

'Watchmen' ruling, Eartha Kitt and 'The Green Hornet' all in Everyday Hero headlines

Welcome to the holiday hangover edition of Everyday Hero, your roundup of handpicked headlines from across the fanboy universe. Today is Dec. 26. 2008, and, like the egg nog you find in your fridge in March, there's nothing but sourness in today's update....

FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN: Just when you thought the long, strange odyssey of the "Watchmen" film adaptation had settled into a steady stroll toward a March release date, a California courtroom decision looks at the Rorschach test and sees something completely different. Now the release date of the film may actually be pushed back. An old friend, Michael Cieply, has the story: "In a surprise ruling, a federal judge in Los Angeles said he intended to grant 20th Century Fox’s claim that it owns a copyright interest in the 'Watchmen,' a movie shot by Warner Brothers and Legendary Pictures and set for release in March. The decision was disclosed in a five-page written order issued on Wednesday. Gary A. Feess, a judge in the United States District Court for Central California, said he would provide a more detailed order soon. Fox has been seeking to prevent Warner from releasing the film. The superhero adventure, based on the 'Watchmen' graphic novel, is being directed by Zack Snyder (who also directed '300') and has shaped up as one of most eagerly anticipated releases for next year. A Warner spokesman, Scott Rowe, declined to comment on the ruling and the studio’s plans. At an earlier hearing, the judge said he believed that issues in the case could be settled only at a trial, which was scheduled for late January. On Wednesday, however, Judge Feess said he had reconsidered and concluded that Fox should prevail on crucial issues. 'Fox owns a copyright interest consisting of, at the very least, the right to distribute the "Watchmen" motion picture,' the ruling said. Fox acquired rights to the 'Watchmen' graphic novel in the late 1980s for the producer Lawrence Gordon, but eventually dropped its own plan to make a movie from its story, about the underside of life for superbeings." [New York Times]

EARTHA ANGEL: Entertainer Eartha Kitt died on Christmas Day at age 81. Kitt replaced Julie Newmar as Catwoman on the old "Batman" television series starring Adam West, and she was also nominated for an Emmy for her work on "I Spy." She also gave a delightful edge to "The Emperor's New Groove" as the villain of the 2001 animated hit. The best Kitt obituary I've seen was on the BBC website and here's an excerpt: "Once described by Orson Welles as the most exciting woman in the world, Kitt's smouldering, feline drawl in memorable hits, such as Santa Baby, Old Fashioned Millionaire and I Wanna Be Evil conveyed a wealth of innuendo. Ostracized at an early age for her mixed race heritage, international star Kitt defied criticism of her illegitimate past and conquered the entertainment world with finesse. Born in 1927, she endured a tough childhood. Kitt's mother, who worked on a cotton plantation, was just 14 when she gave birth, the white father thought to have been the son of the plantation owner. Kitt's features, neither black nor white, led to her being accepted by neither community. She was given away by her mother at the age of eight to live with an aunt in Harlem, New York City. Little did she know that this would be the start of a long showbiz career. With a flair for the dramatic, Kitt, aged 15, auditioned for the famed Katherine Dunham Dance Troupe and won a spot as a featured dancer. The work took her worldwide, and her unique style was enhanced as she became fluent in French during the European tour. It was during a performance in Paris that she caught a certain director's eye, and was cast as Helen of Troy in Orson Welles' production of 'Dr Faust'." [BBC]

CHOW SAYS CIAO TO "HORNET": I'm playing a bit of catch-up on news that was reported in the days leading up to Christmas, such as this item in the trades by Michael Fleming about some turbulence with "The Green Hornet," a film that started as an action movie and then became a comedy and now appears to be losing some of its star power: "There's been another change in the 'Hornet' nest: Stephen Chow has dropped out as director of 'The Green Hornet' but will still play Kato in Columbia Pictures' latest bid to get the crimefighter to the bigscreen. The studio and producer Neal Moritz are in the process of setting a new director to keep the picture on track to begin production by spring. The character began on radio in the 1930s and is best known from the '60s TV version. But a bigscreen translation is having a long gestation, going through many incarnations, including as a proposed George Clooney vehicle. Chow, who directed and starred in 'Kung Fu Hustle' and 'Shaolin Soccer,' signed in September to direct the film and play the role originated in the TV series by Bruce Lee. He stepped out as director over creative differences. The film was scripted by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, and Rogen is starring as the masked crime fighter. The script will likely be polished, and a director could be in place by year's end." [Variety]...BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE: A few days later the AP then reported that Chow might skip on the acting role in Hornet as well to free up his schedule to work on a Jack Black superhero comedy, which we can only pray will be half as funny as this Tenacious D music video for Wonderboy.

THE LION AND THE MOUSE: You know the economy is rough when the Walt Disney Co. walks away from a proven franchise because they don't want to ante up the investment. Veteran Hollywood reporter Claudia Eller has the lowdown on Disney's decision to bow out of the "Chronicles of Narnia" series, which is poised for it third installment, "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader": "A Disney spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday that the Burbank studio decided not to exercise its option to co- finance the third movie in the franchise based on C.S. Lewis' classic children's books because of 'budgetary considerations.' Though the budget of the movie came in significantly below the $200-million cost of 'Prince Caspian,' the second film in the 'Narnia' series, it could still escalate during production, and that made Disney wary, according to a person close to the movie. Disney was partners with Walden Media, which owns the rights to the books, on the first two 'Narnia' films. Disney's decision not to proceed with 'Dawn Treader' shows how it is being more selective in the number of pictures it releases. Studios are scrutinizing costs more carefully and in many instances passing on expensive pictures that until recently might have been given an automatic green light. Disney was also uneasy that the budget of 'Dawn Treader' was subject to other uncontrollable factors, such as uncertainty about the tax breaks and rebates, a weak U.S. dollar and the high cost of visual effects. One person close to the matter said there were also 'creative' differences between Disney and Walden, and that the two disagreed on when to release the film in 2010. Walden said Wednesday that it hoped to find a new financial partner and proceed with plans to shoot the film in the first quarter of next year with director Michael Apted." [Los Angeles Times]

ON THIS DATE: Character actor Vincent Schiavelli died on this day in 2005 in Sicily at the age of 57 after a battle with lung cancer. The Brooklyn native enjoyed a long career built around comic timing and his world-weary eyes. Most people will remember him in the films "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Better Off Dead" and "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," but fanboys will also recall him in the great cult classic "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension," "Batman Returns" and "Tomorrow Never Dies," as well as his television in work in "Star Trek: The Next Generation," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "The X-Files," just to name a few. In his honor today, let's all say "big-boo-TAY" over and over and giggle when people stare at us.

(P.S.: If you want to see the trailer for "Buckaroo," it is at the bottom of this post...)

Seth Rogen on 'Green Hornet': 'We're rewriting it right now' with Stephen Chow's ideas

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Reached by phone on the set of the Judd Apatow-directed dramedy “Funny People” today, Seth Rogen sounded pretty much exactly like the potty-mouthed, pop culture-spouting slacker he plays on film: dropping f-bombs, talking pornography and “Star Wars” in equal measure and admitting his willingness to do full-frontal nudity in Kevin Smith’s latest movie, “Zack and Miri Make a Porno.” (Banish the image from your mind. Smith instructed Rogen to keep the clothes on for his sex scene with Elizabeth Banks.)

But the “Pineapple Express” star/co-writer grew uncharacteristically serious -- reverent even -- when conversation turned to his much-discussed big-screen adaptation of “The Green Hornet.”

Pride point No. 1 was that Stephen Chow, the multi-hyphenate Hong Kong auteur behind such slapstick chop-socky flicks as “Kung Fu Hustle” and “Shaolin Soccer,” had been hired to co-star and direct. “I can’t believe that we got him,” Rogen gushed. “Stephen Chow is one of my favorite directors of all time. The fact that he wants to come to America to make this movie with us is incredible.”

Stephen Chow named director of 'Green Hornet' and the next Kato

Loved "Kung Fu Hustle," and "Shaolin Soccer" was an epic romp of martial arts fun, but now comes word that actor/director Stephen Chow will direct Seth Rogen and star opposite him as Kato in Columbia Pictures' "The Green Hornet."

Quick legendary recap: From a radio program in the 1930s to film serials in the 1940s to a television program in the 1960s and multiple comic book series from the 1940s to the 1990s, the Hornet's been around for a while. Newspaper publisher Britt Reid would go out at night in his mask and with his Asian sidekick Kato, fighting crime with a gas gun and a cool car called 'Black Beauty.'

The news of the movie has also been around for a while, with Rogen attached.  Getting Chow has always been a priority for the writer/actor, who will play the title character.  Chow's comic sensibilities could bring a lightness to the movie, which to the uninitiated, may sound a bit like its more famous Batman and Robin counterparts.  Kato, though, is no Robin -- who has gone on to great things sometimes -- and his casting was always in question because of the iconic status of Bruce Lee.

Kevin Smith wants Seth Rogen in tights

Kevin Smith already made Superman gay -- now he wants to see Seth Rogen in spandex.

Writer-director Smith gleefully cast Routh, the squeaky-clean star of "Superman Returns," as the closeted lover of a male porn star in the upcoming comedy "Zack and Miri Make a Porno," which stars Rogen and Elizabeth Banks. (Have you seen the banned posted for the film? It's after the jump.) Now, during a run through the Toronto International Film Festival, the always quotable Smith told Sci-Fi Wire that he wants to build an entire superhero film around portly comedic star Rogen.

"First, I'm going to do a 180 turn and do a horror movie called 'Red State,' " Smith said in an interview Sept. 7 at the Toronto International Film Festival. "It's going to be a total horror-political-psychological movie without a funny line in it. Then I'm going to do the science-fiction superhero movie. It's going to be an original superhero that I've created. It's stewing right now. I want to do it, though, and, God willing, it will star Seth Rogen."

Rogen, the star of "Knocked Up" and scene-stealer from "The 40 Year-old Virgin," may not seem like the square-jawed superhero archetype, but start getting used to the idea.

The 26-year-old Vancouver native also has plans in place to write and star in a silver-screen adaptation of The Green Hornet, the 1930s radio-serial hero who was briefly (but memorably) revived in 1966-67 for a stylish television series that first brought Bruce Lee to the eyes of America. On that show, Van Williams played the dashing and wealthy Britt Reid, the publisher of The Daily Sentinel by day and two-fisted masked man by night. Lee played his valet, Kato, who joins him as he prowls the night in their sleek, weapons-laden car, the Black Beauty.

"The Green Hornet" is due from Sony in 2010 and Rogen is co-writing with Evan Goldberg ("Pineapple Express," "Superbad"). The producer is Neal Moritz ("Prom Night," The Fast & the Furious" films), who also has a "Luke Cage" project underway with director John Singleton and star Tyrese Gibson and a discussed "Flash Gordon" revisitation with "Sahara" director Breck Eisner.

There was a fairly instantaneous fan-backlash when the Rogen-as-Hornet idea was first floated. The star has said he has no plans to transform the venerable character into a bawdy "Superbad" hero. He also hasn't sounded especially passionate about the source material, at least not in one interview from June, which was also with Sci-Fi Wire:

For years we'd really been trying to write a movie that was kind of about a hero and his sidekick. When we heard the The Green Hornet movie was up for grabs, we thought that could be the perfect way to do this story, because he is the only hero whose sidekick is more known than he is. We thought it would be a good way to tell this relationship story and just do a big crazy action movie.

At Comic-Con International 2007, Rogen was on a panel for "Superbad" and got a "Hornet" question. Sheigh Crabtree, covering for the Los Angeles Times, jotted down this quote which, again, shows that Rogen isn't coming to the project with a real passion for the hero. 

"It's something that Evan [Goldberg] and I are big fans of.... We wrote 'Pineapple Express' together ... and we thought, 'What if we make an even bigger action movie? And what if I wear a mask? Evan really wanted me to wear a mask because he is so sick of seeing my face."

-- Geoff Boucher

Photo of Seth Rogen from WireImage    

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