It’s too early to tell yet if Nicolas Cage will star in The Green Hornet, but Columbia Pictures is negotiating with Nicolas Cage to play the gangster villain.  Cage can do this part.  I’ve always seen him as a villain since his Oscar winning performance in Leaving Las Vegas.  Plus, some of you may know that we will see Cage’s wicked streak in The Bad Lieutenant, which finished shooting and is now in post-production.

Not only is Cage negotiating with the studio but Cameron Diaz is also negotiating to play a reporter and love interest in the Michel Gondry-directed movie that stars Seth Rogen as the masked crime fighter.  I am still not comfortable with Rogen, but that could change as I see more of the movie.

Speaking of seeing more of the movie, production is at full throttle with a fall start date, even though the studio still needs to replace Stephen Chow, Green Hornet’s sidekick Kato.

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