Nicolas Cage Explains Dropping Out of The Green Hornet
We recently heard that Nicolas Cage had dropped out from Seth Rogen’s lovechild The Green Hornet without any explanation as to why. Cage quickly got replaced by the new talk of the town, Inglourious Basterds‘ Christoph Waltz, but still without any comment on Cage’s departure. Now the Cageman has cleared it all up though, so I can finally sleep again without having nightmares about what the reasons might be for his decision to ditch the bitch.
“The Green Hornet was something that I wanted to do, I think Michel Gondry is very talented and I had hoped it would work but I think Seth Rogen and Michel had a different take on the character. I wasn’t interested in just being just a straight-up bad guy who was killing people willy-nilly. I had to have some humanity and to try to give it something where you could understand why the character was the way he was but I don’t think there was enough time to develop it.”
I hear ya Cageman, if it isn’t the Cage way then there’s no way. Although if these concerns of his have any reasoning to them, or if it’s just because he couldn’t get some weird character traits in there like he has demanded in other flicks (like the weird jellybean thing in Ghost Rider), I guess we won’t know until this hits theaters next year. What do you think, might Cage be on to something, or is it just Cagemania that has struck once again?
Comments (3)
I don’t understand the excitement about the Green Hornet. Of all the shows we watched as kids, this one sticks with me the least. I’d rather see a Kimba movie, or Three Stooges, or Munsters. All I remember about the Green Hornet is Bruce Lee. What I’d really like to see is a GI Joe movie made by stop motion animation of the original 12″ GI Joes. That would be cool. I never cared for the little GI Joes, but I still have my big ones.
Posted by paulm on September 18th, 2009Nick Cage’s hair to get own movie?
Posted by jaime on September 19th, 2009“I had to have some humanity and to try to give it something where you could understand why the character was the way he was”
He said the same thing about Ghost Rider, or pretty much any crappy character he plays for that matter.
Posted by stevie_baby on September 21st, 2009Leave a Reply