That Kevin Smith and Seth Rogen, two funnymen known for their raunchy yet touching blend of humor, have teamed up for "Zack and Miri Make a Porno" is so obviously a good match as to be of little surprise to even their most peripheral fans.
And if two guys who traffic in similar comedic tones joining up isn't a shock, then the fact that they both adapted a screenplay from the same source material shouldn't be either. Except, of course, that the source material in question is a superhero movie.
"It is kind of ironic that he wound up doing 'Green Hornet,'" Smith said of Rogen's movie version of the vigilante crimefighter, since years before Rogen made headlines for tackling the project, Smith himself was attached. And now he's Green with envy over Rogen's opportunity to do what he couldn't.
"I wish I could have made his version," Smith said. "The parameters that we had in our version of 'Green Hornet' - he's not suffering from the same parameters At the time they were like 'We want to make a big straight-forward action movie" - the wrong approach for the character, Smith insisted.
"You can't really compete with Spiderman and Batman and stuff like that with Green Hornet," the director contended. "So it's best to take a different approach to it all-together."
Which, according to Smith, is what Rogen is finally getting a real chance to do.
"He's Seth Rogan, the man of the moment. He can do anything he wants with that project," Smith said. "It's not a comedy what he's doing, but he gets to do his with a better sense of humor than we would have been allowed to. He's in a great free place to do something fresh with that material."
What do you think? Does "Hornet" benefit from a fresher, somewhat lighter approach? What kind of writer would Smith have made on the project? Sound off below.
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