I am – Hercules!!
That fellow who tricked Beaks into thinking “The Green Hornet” a dead movie has a lot of explaining to do, what with all the casting going on around the project.
Columbia is talking to Nicolas Cage to play a gangster and, one presumes, the lead villain opposite the title character to be portrayed by a skinny Seth Rogen.
Cage, of course, is a funnybook nut, but the radio-spawned Hornet is not really a funnybook character -- despite his penchant for hanging around Batman during the hippie era.
If you contend Cage would make a poor gangster, I remind you that he is secretly a Coppola.
Still no word on who replaces Stephen Chow as Kato, but Cameron Diaz’ name is still floating around for the hot blonde.
Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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