Green Hornet Scoop: Seth Rogen vs. Bruce Lee!
He’s already the unlikeliest leading man in Hollywood, but are you ready for Seth Rogen: Action Hero? He is, kinda, as he preps for his tights-wearing close-up in The Green Hornet, set for summer 2010. But do his Knocked Up fans even know the old comics or ’60s TV series?
“When you say The Green Hornet to people, the first thing anyone says is, ’Hey, Bruce Lee played [the sidekick] Kato on that show,’” Rogen told us recently, while out promoting The Pineapple Express.
Everybody knows the sidekick, see, but not the hero.
To introduce the world to Kato’s second fiddle, Rogen wrote the script with his Superbad and Pineapple partner Evan Goldberg. Here’s what they cooked up…
“For years we’d actually been trying to write a movie that was kind of about a hero and his sidekick,” Rogen said. “When we heard The Green Hornet movie was up for grabs, we thought that could be the most perfect way to do this story; he’s the only hero whose sidekick is actually more known than he is.”
But can the man known for making gay jokes and insulting Matthew Fox kick ass? He’ll just have to turn all his four letter words into explosions.
“In writing The Green Hornet, we have not hit many situations where you’re like, ’You know what would make this scene better, if Kato said c–ksucker.’”
Well, not yet, at least.
Secondary Super Friends characters had superior powers
We are all so familiar with the main Super Friends, not to mention their powers. Superman, with his x-ray vision, super strength, and all that flying and stuff. Batman, pretty much powerless, but with a darned cool toolbelt and a car second only to Kitt. Wonder Woman, complete with magic lasso of truth and invisible jet.
These Super Friends ran the show over at the Hall of Justice, while the secondary heroes played second fiddle. But why? Honestly, I think some of the secondary heroes had the superior powers and they probably would have kicked the pants off of some of the main Super Friends. So why did they remain secondary characters? Let’s take a closer look at their powers ….
Samurai
Besides being able to turn into a tornado and set himself on fire, Samurai can become invisible. Yes, that’s cool and all, but if your enemy cannot see you, how can they defeat you? I’m pretty sure the Legion of Doom would be mighty confused by this, as would most of the super heroes.
Apache Chief
He grows big. Really big. In fact, there are no known limits to his hugeness. Thanks to a little magic dust, he can increase in size whenever he says “Inyuk-chuk.” So, if you can grow limitlessly, how can anything defeat you? If you can grown big enough to squash your enemy like a bug, aren’t you top dog? Just a question….
Firestorm
Actually the combination of one man’s body and another man’s mind, Firestorm can transform anything non-organic into whatever he wants it to be. One of my favorite Firestorm moments (probably because it cracks up my son so much) is when he changes some thieves’ getaway vehicle into a bathtub, thwarting their escape. So if Firestorm could change weapons and vehicles into something inert, then he’s seemingly more powerful than many of the Super Friends who would be threatened by those things.
Zan and Jayna, the Wonder Twins
I purport that if these two were ever allowed to really fight crime, they’d have some unlimited potential. Sure, they were young and goofy and pretty much comic relief with their monkey pet, Gleek. Zan, who can change into anything water, could wipe out the world with a giant flood. Maybe a little less cool is Jayna’s ability to turn into any animal, because animals are vulnerable. Their biggest weakness is that they need each other to use their powers, but as long as they are together, Zan could kick some serious bad guy butt.
Black Vulcan
Now here’s an interesting fact about Black Vulcan: he’s the only Super Friends character who was not a comic book character, because the show’s creators and Black Vulcan’s creator just couldn’t get along. What’s really notable, though, is that the dude could shoot lightning from his hands, travel at the speed of light, and go back in time. Beats the heck out of a Baterang, if you ask me …
El Dorado
Reading minds, teleportation, creating illusions, and that respectable shooting-lasers-from-eyes thing (shared with none other than Superman) — how could anyone conquer this guy? When threatened, he could teleport. If he didn’t have time for that, he’d simply boggle your mind with a confusing illusion or two. Heck, he could have created the illusion that he was in charge of the Hall of Justice.
What say you, readers? Have these secondary Super Friends been relegated to second fiddle unfairly?
The Cheetah Girls Release First Studio Album
The Cheetah Girls Release First Studio Album
Adrienne Bailon, Sabrina Bryan and Kiely Williams, better known as The Cheetah Girls, may have been some of the reason for the success of High School Musical.
The Disney Channel darlings were birthed in 2003, along with “That’s So Raven” star Raven Symone. They starred in a made-for-TV movie based on Deborah Gregory’s books. And then insanity ensued.
After they saw how successful a made-for-TV-movie could be, Disney decided to take a chance on High School Musical, and struck gold twice. HSM broke all the records on it’s opening night.
The gauntlet had been thrown down, and the Cheetahs weren’t looking to play second fiddle to the HSM gang. So when the second Cheetah Girls movie garnered even higher ratings than their Disney peers, they were thrilled. The soundtrack even hit #5 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
Now The Cheetah Girls have released “TCG” a full-length album of songs that are sure to tickle the ears of their pre and post-pubescent fans.
AFTRA Leaves SAG in the Spotlight
AFTRA is willing to play second fiddle, for now.
The American Federation of TV and Radio Artists said Wednesday it would put off studio contract negotiations, scheduled to begin April 28, until May 5 to give the Screen Actors Guild more time to hammer out a new deal.
"We believe we can best serve our members' interests by briefly postponing our negotiations," the union said in a statementa logical conclusion considering it was the AMPTP, which represents the purse string-wielding major studios and networks, that requested the postponement.
With all involved looking to avert another industry-crippling strike, the 70,000-strong AFTRA, which mainly represents broadcast performers, announced last month that it would conduct talks separately from SAG, although at least half of everyone on AFTRA's roster are also card-carrying SAG members.