Well I see Sacha Baron Cohen is coming out with another faux documentary. This time he is doing his character Bruno, a flamboyantly gay Austrian supermodel, and will again chronicle a journey through America. Ummm….yah, I guess. Can’t say I’m all that thrilled, didn’t really get into Borat, so I probably won’t get into Bruno. I don’t really consider Cohen funny, he’’s less a comedian and more of a performance artist, like Andy Kaufman was, only without that sly jokes really on you subtext Kaufman exuded. I wish him luck with his new comedy, but I have my doubts it will score big at the box office. He is putting it out in July amongst some big hitters like Transformers, Harry Potter, and Public Enemies. Of course that could just be good counter programming. Guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
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I’ve been surfing the web looking for any news on the upcoming movie Solomon Kane. The character is one of Robert E. Howard’s less well known creations. In the handful of stories Howard published in the thirties, Kane was a Seventeenth Century Puritan who tracks a murderer from London to Africa, where he encounters witch doctors, vampires, and other nasty supernatural creatures. The movie changes this a bit by having Kane a damned soul fighting evil to atone for his past sins. Originally supposed to have been released in Europe back in March, it is now scheduled for an overseas release in October. No news yet on when a domestic release is scheduled.
Superhero fans are going to have a tough road ahead again. It has been announced that The Green Hornet is once again in preproduction for release in 2010. The only cast member so far annouced is the star. Britt Reid/The Green Hornet will be played by Seth Rogen. Yes, that Seth Rogen, the star of Knocked Up. He is writing a script with his Superbad writing partner Evan Goldberg, I would like to reserve judgement on this production until it actually gets finished and released (if it ever does, The Green Hornet has had a longer and tougher path to film that the last Superman movie). Sure Rogen isn’t exactly the first name that comes to mind as an action movie star, but he has shown with Pineapple Express, as has Kevin James in Paul Blart: Mall Cop, that a heavy guy can do believable action scenes (fans of the old Cannon TV show already knew this, but I digress). The thing about these two films is that they were action/ comedies, and my fear is that that is the way Rogen will take The Green Hornet. Instead of doing a serious superhero film like The Dark Knight or Iron Man, he will do something along the lines of Starsky and Hutch or The Dukes of Hazzard, spoofing the material while inserting some decent action sequences. My hope is that he will respect the material and want to stretch as a performer, playing everything straight and the only humor coming through character interaction between him and whoever plays Kato, like Bale and Caine do in the Batman films. But i have serious doubts. Where are Van Williams and Bruce Lee when you really need them?
