I just read on Slashfilm that Stephen Chow has been confirmed to co-star and direct in the latest superhero installment of The Green Hornet with none other than Seth Rogen. Chow will play Kato, a role made famous by Bruce Lee.
Could anyone have predicted this pairing? EVER? I couldn’t. And Stephen Chow? I wasn’t too excited after watching CJ7 (I still get lots of angry hate comments on my personal blog about this…get over it, people) and as much as I loved Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle, there’s always that little voice inside my head that wonders why Chow must a) always put himself in the starring (sympathetic hero) role in his movies and b) why does he depend so much on CG?
I’m curious to know how the Chow-esque method of filmmaking will turn out with Seth Rogen’s self-deprecating pot humor (which I LOVE) but it is awesome to see an Asian filmmaker get some huge recognition in the action-comedy world.
Yeah, that’s right, people. We don’t just do martial arts and pretend to be geishas. We can be funny, too!
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ayman wrote:
I’m actually surprised about the mass of people of all backgrounds that just dont get Steven Chow. You can see how he grew from a comedic gangster to the come-to-zen kung fu master of his past few films. CJ7 seemed to be a step which took him out of the movie’s main focus but you could see what he was trying to do.
Youre onto something about the CG. The God of Cookery (my favorite Chow movie to date) had a plastic car dragged across a RISK game board for effects and was a wonderful movie.
All that said, given how he painted himself rather Bruce Lee like in Kung Fu and had a Bruce Lee-esque goal keeper in Shaolin Soccer…him as Kato. Has me smiling.
Posted on 28-Sep-08 at 9:13 pm | Permalink