Posted by TheRiddler89 at pool-141-153-211-217.mad.east.verizon.net on March 16, 2004 at 22:35:02:
This was on Dynamic Forces.com today
GREEN HORNET A GO
BY DF NEWS
Writer-director Kevin Smith told SCI FI Wire that he and Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein are ready to move forward with Smith's big-screen adaptation of the old radio serial and comic book The Green Hornet. "I saw Harvey yesterday," Smith said in an interview on March 6, while promoting his latest film, Jersey Girl. "He said, 'Where are we at with the script?' I said, 'Where are we at? I've been doing press all weekend [for Jersey Girl]. As soon as I finish.'"
Smith added, "March 16 I get to go home. So hopefully by mid-April I'll be turning in the first finished draft. And we hope to be shooting by the late-late end of the summer, beginning of the fall. They probably won't let us shoot in L.A., because it would be too cost-prohibitive. Something tells me they'll send me up to Canada."
A longtime comic-book fan, Smith said he intends to make Britt Reid, the Green Hornet's secret identity, the most memorable and intriguing character in his movie. Too often in comic book-based features, Smith argued, the villain steals the hero's thunder.
Meanwhile, Smith revealed, the casting process is just now underway. "We've started to put out feelers to see who's available and whatnot, but we're not close to signing deals," he said. "There was a guy I met with before I went on the press tour, who I'm really kind of in love with, who I think would make an excellent Britt Reid. He's a great actor. He's a really strong actor. He's not an action dude, and I think he'd be great. He'd be awesome."
Smith added that he likes the fact that The Green Hornet is not as popular a title as Batman or Spider-Man . "It frees me up quite a bit inasmuch as I'm not going to be stepping on anybody's toes," Smith said. "Nobody's going to say, 'Well, Green Hornet would never do that, because in issue number 96 back in 1982 ... .' There's nothing like that."
-- SCIFI WIRE