After talk of running scared from directing The Green Hornet, it appears that Smith may not be entirely out of the running for its director’s chair. In a recent interview with The Latino Review, Smith had this to say about where he is on writing the film’s script and on where the heck this thing stands:
”I try not to get into too much detail because they’re going to hire a fight choreographer anyway… So I’ve always been a screenwriter that when it comes to the prose sections of the script, the scripted passages, in my own scripts I’ve always left them relatively thin because A, there’s not much action going on, so hence not much need for screen direction. And B, I just feel like I know what it’s going to look like when I direct it so I don’t need to waste page space with scene descriptions or action descriptions. But when it comes to something like this, you do have to kind of lay it out visually for people because this movie like Green Hornet isn’t supposed to be dialogue driven. They want moments, tentpole moments and stuff. So I tend to describe just enough and then leave it open for interpretation by a fight choreographer or whoever winds up directing it if it’s not me.”
Note the “if it’s not me” which maybe means that Smith hasn’t totally discounted the idea of doing it himself this point. I maintain that it’d be great to see him TRY to stretch himself, even if the movie fails I think it is a shot he needs to take. Besides, who really cares about The Green Hornet? If you’re going to risk screwing up a comic book property, this is the one. It’s unlikely that many people will notice. Kevin needs to do this. Ever since he announced that he was too scared to direct an action film, Smith has seemed like a hollow shell of his usually brash, in your face, take no prisoners self. Face your fears man.
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