CULVER CITY, Calif. -- So far, Vancouver actor Seth Rogen has earned fame in zany comedies.
So Rogen's possible role as a comic-action hero in the much-delayed feature version of The Green Hornet seems like a stretch -- even to him.
For starters, there's the getting into shape.
"That'd be funny, huh?" he said. "Do they still have those things, like, they just electronically work out for you if you lay there doing nothing? They electronically stimulate your muscles into working out, so I could be lazy and athletic at the same time?"
Previous incarnations of The Green Hornet project previously had such pretty-boys as George Clooney and Jake Gyllenhaal as leads.
Rogen is writing the latest script and is producing, but says he hasn't read Kevin Smith's previous draft that starred Gyllenhaal.
"I'm actually friends with Kevin Smith and I probably could read it, if I want to, but I don't want to," Rogen said. "I have no interest right now in reading it."
One plus for Rogen is that unlike the Supermans and Batmans, The Green Hornet character is much less known. The comic book character dates back to the '40s: A crime-fighting hero who, by day, is a newspaper publisher, Britt Reid.
"I bet a lot of guys who read Ain't It Cool News know who The Green Hornet is but, like, my girlfriend has literally never heard of it," Rogen said. "So we could completely destroy it and no one will complain. It's nice having a character to work with that isn't as well-known, just because (we) don't plan on changing it. But it's just nice, because a lot of people don't have a lot invested in it."
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