FROM SPLASH PAGE: Seth Rogen and Jay Chou may be getting some heavy metal backup from the Oscar-hopeful band Anvil in "The Green Hornet." The group's appearance in the 2010 film appears to have been leaked in an overview of their busy schedule and indie documentary "Anvil! The Story of Anvil." Their recent calendar purportedly included a Conan O'Brien appearance, followed by their movie debut in Michel Gondry's new hero film.

Beware of minor spoilers before reading on, but according to the L.A. Times, Anvil performed in a scene that featured them exploding on stage at a rock club.

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FROM SPLASH PAGE: Recently, we conducted the first interview with the incomparable Seth Rogen following his announcement that visionary director Michel Gondry would be directing him in the soon-to-shoot movie reimagining of “The Green Hornet.” But we were really intrigued when he revealed that the “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” director had already filmed a key action scene on his own dime.

“To convince the studio to let him do it, he filmed a fight scene on his own," Rogen told us. "He just hired stunt men and did it by himself! Just to show some of the stuff he could do, some of the weird filming techniques he has and some of the stuff he can pull off. I mean, this is something he did in two days and it was instantly unlike anything you've ever seen before.”

Read more of Seth Rogen's thoughts on "Green Hornet" and Michel Gondry's fight scene at SplashPage.MTV.com.

FROM SPLASH PAGE: By now, you’ve most likely heard the beyond-awesome news that Seth Rogen’s “Green Hornet” movie will be directed by Mr. Michel Gondry, one of the most visually-stunning directors in Hollywood. But, being a movie buff, I’m always intrigued by the “What if?” possibilities of Steve McQueen starring in “The Bodyguard,” Christopher Walken as Han Solo, and so on.

Which is why I was intrigued when, moments after the Gondry news broke, I noticed that my Facebook friend James Wan had changed his status. “Damn you Michel Gondry *shaking fists*,” read the message from the “Saw” director. “Oh well the better man won.”

Moments later, James took the status update down. But lucky for us, Seth isn’t the type of Hollywood phony who hides behind “no comments” and the like.

For more on the "Green Hornet" director that almost was, head over to SplashPage.MTV.com.

FROM MOVIES.MTV.COM: Seth Rogen’s high-profile superhero movie has a brand-new director — one of the most distinctive visionaries in Hollywood — and the star can only use three words to describe how he’s feeling about it.

“It’s f—ing crazy!” he said when we spoke with him Tuesday, accentuating the point with his trademark laugh.

His new “Green Hornet” collaborator is none other than Michel Gondry, the eye-popping auteur who gave us “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “Be Kind Rewind,” and too many classic music videos to list here. Capping off an exhaustive search, the “Pineapple Express” funnyman said Gondry is the perfect director for his comedic take on the crime-fighting newspaper publisher who first slipped into his green mask in 1936.

Continue reading about Michel Gondry and “The Green Hornet” at movies.mtv.com…

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FROM SPLASH PAGE: It sounds like it may be the beginning of a death-knell for "The Green Hornet." Over at Hitfix, Drew McWeeny has word that Sony may be backing out the project completely.

Rumors of a "Green Hornet" movie have been around for years and years, ever since Kevin Smith was attached to the project as a writer and director. When Smith left the film, it seemed dead in the water, but then the rather unexpected casting news broke that placed Seth Rogen in the lead as the masked hero.

Read more about the rumored demise of "The Green Hornet" over at SplashPage.MTV.com.

FROM SPLASH PAGE: Seth Rogen's remake of "The Green Hornet" has just hit a snag, like all of the Hornet adaptations before it. According to Variety, it lost its director, Stephen Chow.

Chow will still play the role of Kato, but he has dropped out of directing due to creative differences. It's not clear if the differences were with its writers, Rogen and Evan Goldberg, or with the studio and producer Neal Moritz.

Read more about Stephen Chow's departure from "The Green Hornet" director's chair at SplashPage.MTV.com.

FROM MTV.COM: Speaking with MTV News last November, writer/star Seth Rogen promised he was buffing up for the role of Britt Reid in "The Green Hornet," he was looking very strongly at Stephen Chow for the role of Kato, and the movie wouldn't follow an origin story.

Well, two out of three ain't bad.

Looking more svelte and in-shape than ever, Rogen now insists that his action-hero comedy — which he likened in tone to "True Lies" — will follow a more traditional "beginnings" arc.

Despite the vociferous complaining from fans who initially objected to Rogen's command of the project, the funnyman says an origin story is necessary because, according to him, there aren't really that many fans.

To read more of Seth Rogen's thoughts on "Green Hornet," head over to MTV.com.

FROM SPLASH PAGE: Seth Rogen can't seem to get away from green these days -- first in this month's "Pineapple Express" (where a bit of "green" gets him into a world of trouble) and now with news breaking hard and fast about 2010's 'Green Hornet' comic book adaptation. In a sit-down with MTV News, co-writer Rogen (who will also play the film's titular role) spilled more info about the upcoming feature film, which he hopes to be a healthy balance of comedy and action. Read More...

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