Nicolas Cage drops out of 'Green Hornet'

Nicolas Cage will not feel the sting of “The Green Hornet.” 

Cage was to play the villain in Columbia’s action movie, being directed by Michel Gondry, but the actor and the studio were not able to come to terms on a deal.

Columbia had no comment but sources said the studio is on the hunt for a new bad guy.

No scenes with Cage were on shot for the movie, which just began principal photography in Los Angeles last week.  

Seth Rogen, Cameron Diaz and Jay Chou topline the movie, which brings the classic crime-fighting hero to the big-screen.

Comments

[Philip Galasso]

Seriously, Columbia, PONY THE FUCK UP. I love Seth Rogen, I love Michel Gondry, I love Seth and Evan's scripts, but Nic Cage was that intangible ingredient that made this all seem like mad genius.

[david low]

nic was the one good ingedient in a crap stew.

[Dazed]

Are you kidding?? Nic the ONE Good thing? That's fucking pathetic.

[Adam]

NO! NO! NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES! AAHHH! MY EYES! MY EYES! AAAAAHHHHH!!!

[4pumpWONDERchump]

Thank god, Nick Cage was gonna bring this movie down, now if only they could get someone better than Cameron Diaz

[www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1577760809]

together in Green Hornet would of been a horrible movie. Cameron Diaz will screw it up enough with her half-sideway smile without the help of ego-struck Cage. But if they do end up doing Hornet, maybe it will save us from such ridiclious sequels such as There's STILL Something About Mary or Knowing II. It just might be worth it..

[mikebest]

Why in the world does ANYONE want Nic Cage in ANY movie.....ever. Any movie he is in is instantly doomed by his insipid, atrocious characters, which are apparently his own personality, because the man absolutely cannot act. Thank God this movie has a chance now that he will not be there to ruin it.

[ziad]

CAMERON DIAZ IS AN AWFUL CHOICE INDEED

[GFT]

With Cage being unhappy in doing The Green Hornet, the overall film will suffer.

The Green Hornet faces a few challenges:

1. There's no "Bruce Lee--" (i.e. a charismatic actor to take the movie to the next level) Bruce Lee was the stand-out performance in the TV show, just as Bill Cosby overshadowed Robert Culp in "I Spy" (the TV show)

2. The Green Hornet's opening in December ( a red flag indicating that studio analysts aren’t too thrilled with The Green Hornet’s success)

3. ? (If I can't "add-to"/ I'll try not to "take-away")

HOWEVER
There is somebody who really, really, really, really WANTS the role of "The-Villain-in-The-Green-Hornet" and would deliver a performance to ramp-up The Green Hornet to a higher-quality; place ads in The Hollywood Reporter and Variety exclaiming: actor for Green Hornet Villain Needed.
The reason being: Most of the success of The Shield (FOX-TV) had to do with The Shield’s producers scouting for actors who WANTED and NEEDED the roles in THE SHIELD.

Michael Chiklis of The Shield NEEDED and WANTED a role. Michael Chiklis certainly doesn’t resemble Detective Vic Mackey; after playing John Belushi in Wired, Michael Chiklis was blacklisted by Hollywood (his phone didn’t ring for 18 MONTHS), then the part of Tony Scali in The Commish opened-up and at first the producers turned-down Michael Chiklis for The Commish because Michael Chiklis was too young and too skinny for the part of Tony Scali. Michael Chiklis gained a lot of weight and “looked old” and got the part of Tony Scali. Then after the Commish, Michael Chiklis couldn’t find steady work because Hollywood typecast Michael Chiklis as being middle-aged and fat.
FINALLY
THE SHIELD came along and MICHAEL CHICKLIS is a HUGE STAR . . . because he was HUNGRY and NEEDED and WANTED the part of the murderous Vick Mackey.
FIND SOMEONE WHO NEEDS “The Green Hornet”
And you’ve made a star
. . . Probably
(You cannot predict anything in Hollywood: only argue precedents and precedents are worth alchemist’s gold in entertainment: entertainment is constantly renewing itself and establishing new precedents to negate the old precedents)

WIRED’s (starring Michael Chiklis) a good movie (I LIKE IT A LOT): I was in 5th grade when John Belushi died on March 5, 1982. I never did cocaine or heroin BECAUSE of John Belushi’s passing. Films and books like WIRED (by Bob Woodward) are important because, in making John Belushi look like a Monster, they tell me Cocaine turns people into monsters who live truncated lives.

[John Davis]

Wow, wuts up with that dude? Weird!

RT
www.anon-tools.vze.com

[sense11]

Nicolas Cage dropping out is the best thing that could have ever happened to this movie. His last 20 movies have sucked.

[JillH]

Who likes Nick Cage anyways?

http://www.electroniccigarettesinc.com

[Steve the Dude]

Nicolas Cage is smart! He knows that as long as Seth Rogen is the Green Hornet this will be a DISASTER!!!

Disney's TRON LEGACY will DESTROY Sony's Green Hornet, rightly so! Why?

TRON Fans WANT Disney's TRON LEGACY!!!

Green Hornet fans DO NOT WANT Sony's THE GREEN HORNET as Seth Rogen is totally miscast and Sony knows it!!!

[SKR]

"2. The Green Hornet's opening in December ( a red flag indicating that studio analysts aren’t too thrilled with The Green Hornet’s success)"

Not true, December is one of the months that studioes try to put out their quality and big family movies

Good months for movies - may, june, july, november, december

So-So months - march, august, october

crap months - febuary, april, september

dumping ground - january

[Evanlorts]

Get Your shit straight steve...

While i agree cage hasnt had a good movie since lord of war you are a idiot if you think he sucked in Leaving Los Vegas, Raising Arizona, Bringing out the Dead...

[Anonymous]

Cage is the worst actor in the business today. I might actually see this movie now.

[michael]

Nicolas Cage was pretty fucking great in Adaptation. Also, the Weather Man, he gave a good performance. I think a lot of his movies are definitely junky but, he can act when he wants to.

[Anonymouse]

Anyone see Bangkok Dangerous? I will never see another Nicolas Cage movie after that piece of crap.

[colonial1]

I am always vaguely interested to see a Nic Cage film, if only to see what horrific hairpiece he will be in this time
the last film of his that was good was Adaptation...I think its time he started taking on grandfather roles,
Cameron Diaz proved once and for all in 'Gangs of New York' that she cannot act and consequently she brings down any movie she is in these days
why is casting this film anyway- get a clue!