We’re not friends with him on Facebook — why God, why!? — but according to some of the Twitter folks we follow (shocktilyoudrop), when the announcement was made that Michel Gondry had scored the coveted “Green Hornet,” gig, “Saw” director James Wan updated his status to read, “Damn you Michel Gondry *shaking fists.* Oh well, the better man won.”
[ed. note, don’t you fucking love how TMI info, news and the world is so disgustingly tied into social networking? BTW, we gotta go drop a deuce, tweet in a sec].
So then the world went, “huh?” Was Wan, the creator of some of the most vile, retarded and insipid torture-porn, in the running for “The Green Hornet”?
Evidently, yes. SHUDDER. Seth Rogen admitted to MTV that he was indeed in consideraton, but sounds like an apologist for it. “Well, we were just given the mandate to bring the studio directors we were fans of. And the discussion would begin from there.”
But don’t think he took that backpeddle too far. Rogen actually likes some of his work and hopes there’s some sort of collaboration in the future (either that or he’s learned the ways of Hollywood diplomacy). “Me and [co-writer] Evan Goldberg] saw ‘Death Sentence’ and thought it was incredible. As far as action movies go, that’s one of the better ones I’ve seen in recent years. So yeah we definitely talked to him. I would definitely love to do something else.”
As far as we’re concerned, the fates aligned to cockblock Wan out of the ‘Green Hornet’ sphere. Sure, we don’t have any particular affinity or attachment to the Hornet character and nor does anyone under 45 (which is why Rogen and Goldberg chose it — so they could fuck with it how they please), but we do like our Canuck Apatow buddy and we’re glad he’s not doing the dance with frosted-tips “Saw” dude anytime soon.