If there's anyone we here at the MTV Movies Blog love more than Kevin Smith, it might just be Seth Rogen, two great comedic tastes about to taste great together with "Zack and Miri Make a Porno." (And, yes, I'm aware that I just used the words "Porno" and "tastes great" in the same sentence.)

After Smith’s announcement that he cast the Judd Apatow regular alongside Elizabeth Banks in his upcoming comedy, we got on the horn with both funnymen to discuss the project. Read more...

Two big comics-to-film announcements highlight today's links, as Marvel's first "X-Men" spin-off snags a chief and a Freak gets another job.

- Seth Rogen attached to write and possibly star in long-awaited "Green Hornet" pick. Say what? (Variety)

- "Wolverine" finally gets a director. South Africa's Gavin Hood tapped to helm the November '08 pic. (Variety)

- Biopic of every hipster's favorite Cuban revolutionary, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, moves forward with Benicio del Toro tapped to play the lead. (Hollywood Reporter)

- Fox pays big bucks for Ridley Scott to produce "The Passage," a postapocalyptic vampire story set in the future. (Hollywood Reporter)

- Wes Anderson's "The Darjeeling Limited" gets a quirky poster. Go figure. (CHUD)

- "Entourage" aside, the real Pablo Escobar story is still in Hollywood's sights. (Premiere)

- "30 Days of Night" star Melissa George signs up for "Captive" duty in upcoming thriller. (Moviehole)

We don't like to deal in rumors and hearsay, but this tidbit straight from the mouth of Judd Apatow himself is too juicy to pass up. While Apatow's next movie "Knocked Up" stars longtime friend Seth Rogen, it wasn't meant to be that way. In fact, on the list of candidates to play the male lead of "Ben Stone," Rogen ended up near the bottom.

"Seth was the tenth actor to attempt to play the part, and nine other actors were fired," Apatow revealed to MTV. "We would ask an actor to come out and shoot [a] scene, and I would come out and fire them or they quit."

That revelation was an especially uncomfortable moment, particularly since Apatow was sitting next to Rogen at the time. So thank goodness he was kidding. The notion that rogen was the tenth choice to play the role is the concept for a fake documentary that Apatow will include on the "Knocked Up" DVD as a bonus feature. "[It's] called 'Finding Ben Stone' and it's a search for who will play this character," said the director who's quickly becoming a comedy legend. "You see all of the other actors who I fired before I found Ben. So we have James Franco, and David Krumholtz, and Gerry Bednob who is Mooj from the '40 Year Old Virgin.' At one point I thought I could be the lead, and Justin Long is in it. It's very funny, and it makes me look like an ass."

Is Apatow turning into Christopher Guest? "Finding Ben Stone" isn't the only fake documentary Apatow is planning for the DVD, he divulged. "There's another fake documentary about the fact that I'm fighting with the studio so much, that they send ["Capote" director] Bennett Miller to oversee the shoots," Apatow chuckled. "He's trying to take control of the movie and it ends up in a big fist fight between me and Bennett. [Very] funny."

"Knocked Up," starring Seth rogen, Katherine Heigl and Paul Rudd, arrives in theaters on June 1st.