Nicolas Cage in Talks for The Green Hornet

Jul 20th, 2009
Cameron Diaz coming on board as well
Columbia Pictures is in early talks with Nicolas Cage to play the gangster villain in The Green Hornet, reports Variety.

Cameron Diaz is negotiating to play a reporter and love interest in the Michel Gondry-directed film that stars Seth Rogen as the masked crime fighter.

The picture is moving full steam ahead for a fall start date, even as the studio looks to replace Stephen Chow, who was going to play sidekick Kato. Rogen and Evan Goldberg wrote the script and Neal Moritz is producing through his Original Films.

The Green Hornet is targeting a July 9, 2010 release

Source: Variety
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T Bone
July 21, 2009
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Good casting, I think this will be good, and remember people, it's a movie based on a campy TV show, not a real comic book, so stop with the hating, "oh I hate how they do this, I hate this person" cry me a river.
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Klever
July 21, 2009
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Gah. This is getting worse by the day.
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slw4836
July 21, 2009
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Seth Rogen's role as Green Hornet in this film pretty much makes any other additions worthless in my eyes. Not that Nicolas Cage gets me very excited about seeing a movie in the first place. Nic's been on a dry spell since The Rock and Air America.
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Mark It Zero
July 21, 2009
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I just lost all interest in this movie. Cameron Diaz? Really? Don't even get me started on Nicolas Cage. He's like King Midas, only everything he touches turns to crap.
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carnage63
July 21, 2009
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What about Robin Shou from Mortal Kombat? I think he could be good as Kato.
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slw4836
July 21, 2009
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T Bone, the series wasn't campy. It appears that way now because it was done in the 60's. For it's time, it was more pulp/serial stuff. I think people who voice negative opinions here share the same concerns I do; even if it were being done as a campy ode to the original material, Seth Rogan and Nicolas Cage don't inspire much faith. That, and no one wants to see a bad movie. I'm certain the Wachowski Brothers had the best intentions and were paying homage to campiness when they made Speed Racer. If you've seen it, you know why most people avoided it like the palgue. It was a horrible movie, regardless of what they set out to do with the film.
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slw4836
July 21, 2009
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Clearly, I can't spell PLAGUE.
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please kill me
July 21, 2009
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Are you freakin' kidding me? For the love of God, I think I would rather chew off my own foot than see this abomination that mocks a wonderful legacy... I can't stand Nicolas Cage! Bad enough he ruined Ghost Rider, why does he get to kill the Green Hornet movie, too?
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Toastjammer
July 21, 2009
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Mark It Zero got it right. I dig Diaz, a little, but Cage? Marked for Death. Maybe he wants to see how many comic-movies he can bring down. Today, Ghost Rider and Kick-Ass. Tomorrow, the world!
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nudbuggets
July 21, 2009
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who cares?
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