… are actually of the stunt double but I’m so unaware of 30 year old Taiwanese pop “mega star” Jay Chou, the guy actually filling the shoes of Bruce Lee, that I didn’t even notice when I first glanced through Superhero Hype.
I’m getting some bizare Oddjob vibes from the image, like he should be the second or third tier villain in a 60’s Bond movie. But then again, it’s only the stunt double so as long as the outfit and basic shape is correct that’s all that matters. I mean a stunt double’s face is supposed to be nondescript anyway. The close-ups will be of Chou (who must be at least 15 years younger than this guy) and maybe he won’t look so mean?
There’s also our first look at lead Seth Rogen (as Britt Reid, aka The Green Hornet), and Cameron Diaz (the love interest/amateur sleuth).
Is it just me or the slimmer Rogen gets, the more plain he looks – therefore he kind of looks less like a leading man? When he was slimmer the first time around (see his part in The 40 Year Old Virgin), he had the same problem. I still think the movie would have worked with him fatter, especially with Gondry’s off base kind of film-making, making it a kind of post-modern Adam West style show with an overweight and less troubled Bruce Wayne.
And for those hating on Rogen at the minute – all I’m going to say is take a look at his last two movies Observe & Report, Funny People. This is not a guy giving us the same character over and over again. A Travis Bickle esque Mall Cop and a joke thieving, mostly unfunny opportunist asshole couldn’t be further away from the lovable lug he was playing before. He is now playing characters with more dimensions, with higher stakes at play.
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God awful. And he’s got enough meat on his nose to make a ham sandwich.
For information on the TV used Green Hornet Car see http://www.theblackbeauty.com
Seth Rogen playing a guy named Britt Reid? Could you invent a more WASPy name for a man than ‘Britt Reid’? Fat, thin, Seth Rogen looks less like a leading man than my scrotum. My taint would look more dashing dressed as the Green Hornet. I was under the logical precept that this thing was going to have a vintage period backdrop; hair and makeup looks like it’s 1985 in that still up above. This must be a part of some elaborate viral promotion that’s creating a movie-within-a-movie version of a Hollywood Green Hornet movie, starring Seth Rogen playing Seth Rogen playing The Green Hornet for one of Apatow and company’s new gagfests. Or it’s an experiment by Michel Gondry to see if he can destroy a Hollywood film from the inside. Or maybe Gondry hates superhero movies and he wants to make one so bad that they will die and open up all of those multiplex theater projectors for his cinema of idiosyncracy.