Editorials > Seth Rogen promises to get "buff" for The Green Hornet.

Who cares about Watchmen or Justice League updates when there's finally some word being released on The Green Hornet. Especially when it concerns Seth Rogen's take on the franchise.

MTV News caught up with the new figurehead for the Apatow Crew to ask about the general response to the fans' response that he could–and will–take up the green fedora:

[The fan reaction] was a little surprising. I love the idea! I think it's going to be a unique and interesting movie," the jocular always-self-deprecating Rogen announced, before adding with a laugh, "but nerds love complaining. You go on [the Web site for] Ain't It Cool News, and everybody complains about everything. They could find out Jesus Christ was making a movie with Frank Miller, and they'd say, 'That's a terrible combination!' "

While Rogen admits the film won't be a straight-forward origin story, his plans to make it a "regular action movie" could get sidelined by the two different outlines he and Evan Shapiro Goldberg (Ed.:  Maybe "Shapiro" is his nickname?  It is now.) are working on.

"There's a more comedic version and a less comedic version, and we don't know what will feel right until we're actually writing it," he revealed to MTV News. "We were about to start writing the script, and then the writers' strike hit.

"It's really hard to wrap our head around what the movie will be until we've written the script," he added.

As for Kato, Rogen cites Stephen Chow and Tony Jaa as his ideal actors–but with no finished script, different outlines, no director and presenting an extremely dated character in the new realm of The Dark Knight and Iron Man, can the Hornet even sting the public?

(via Huffington Post) 

-John Lichman