Seth Rogen Blames Green Hornet Failure on Budget Woes

While talking with Marc Maron on the popular WTF Podcast, This is the End star Seth Rogen admitted [...]

Green Hornet

While talking with Marc Maron on the popular WTF Podcast, This is the End star Seth Rogen admitted that working on The Green Hornet was "a f---ing nightmare," and blamed the end result of the film on budget problems. "While we were making it, it was a f---ing nightmare. And [Michael] Gondry, the director, is wonderful at smaller scale stuff but I think he did not mesh well with [a blockbuster film]," Rogen said. "It was his first movie with more than a $20 million dollar budget and this was $120 million dollar budget. And we had never made an action movie, he had never made an action movie. And if there is one thing I look back on like, 'What was the problem there?' It was just the budget. We can't make a really edgy fun movie for our types of people for that amount of money. There's just too much skepticism that it draws. 'Mo money, 'mo problems. You can't take risks, [the studio] wouldn't let us take risks anyway. And that makes it very hard to make a movie that's exciting." The actor added that the studio's scrutiny of the film was isolated to things they were interested in. "No one looks at the pre-vis. No one looks at the storyboards," he said, incredulous. "What we spent like literally $50 million dollars on, no one checks out. And that's whats crazy. The way the money was spent and the way the money is spent on a lot of these movies is crazy.

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