While making the rounds for his upcoming comedy Observe and Report, Seth Rogen let slip a few tidbits concerning The Green Hornet. Stephen Chow is still in as Kato, though he has yet to make a full commitment, and Michel Gondry may be trading in his handcrafted special effects for something entirely different.

Me and Evan have actually approached him with ideas like maybe we could do something like this…you could do some of your weird people made out of string and shit like that. He’s like, “No, I don’t want to any of that. The fact that you think I want to do that drives me crazy and makes me never want to do anything like that again.”

It’s especially brave for Gondry to turn his back on the weird string people when that was the reason he was probably hired in the first place. Still, it will be interesting to see what he cooks up. Just because Gondry isn’t going to replicate any of his old tricks doesn’t mean he doesn’t have entirely new ones up his sleeve. So long as he doesn’t cave from the hassles that can come from making a blockbuster, this should be the most idiosyncratic superhero movie since Rat Pfink a Boo Boo. Does Gondry’s evolution as a filmmaker have you excited for The Green Hornet, or are you mourning the loss of the weird string people?

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