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 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.