Beaks here...

The OBSERVE & REPORT junket was held this morning in Los Angeles, which means Seth Rogen's been answering GREEN HORNET and FUNNY PEOPLE questions since he rolled out of bed. According to Collider's Steve Weintraub, he was extremely forthcoming with regards to the former - which, despite acquiring a new director, could be going before cameras in June.

Most interestingly, it sounds like GREEN HORNET director Michel Gondry will be muting his signature handmade aesthetic in order to, presumably, deliver a more studio-friendly summer film. Here's what Rogen told the junketeers:

Me and Evan have actually approached him with ideas, like maybe... you could do some of your weird people made out of string and shit like that. He’s like, "No, I don’t want to any of that. The fact that you think I want to do that drives me crazy and makes me never want to do anything like that again."

It also sounds like they'll be doing an origin story as well. For more on that, head over to Collider.

As for whether Stephen Chow is still in the mix as Kato (he was originally set to direct), Latino Review's El Guapo has tweeted that this is currently up in the air (i.e. there's no contract). I'm sure El Guapo will have a full story up at Latino Review later in the day.

Update!

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. My work (and working) computer has been off in the land beyond beyond being fixed by the Apple people, so I'm behind on posting my interviews from SXSW, but I wanted to chime in here. I interviewed Seth Rogen when he came to town with OBSERVE & REPORT and got him to talk a bit about Green Hornet... Mostly about Stephen Chow. Chow is still part of the team. Rogen mentioned meeting with him and Gondry the previous week. But like Guapo mentions in his tweet there are no done deals. But the fact that Chow is still around and interested after stepping down as director is a good sign. I hope he does it. He'd be absolutely perfect for the role.

I'll have my full interview with Rogen up as soon as I can. Also chatted with Michael Pena (awesome guy) and the great Jody Hill (I'll save most of that info for the actual interview, but he did say that an 8 episode follow-up season to EASTBOUND & DOWN is being discussed right now).