Recent casting news that Inglourious Basterd's Christoph Waltz landed the head villain role in The Green Hornet has everyone wondering why Nicolas Cage, who had the role first, dropped out.
Well, the actor answered the question, himself, at the Toronto International Film Festival, and it's the same old song: "creative differences" with star and screenwriter Seth Rogen and director Michel Gondry.
The Green Hornet was something that I wanted to do, I think Michel Gondry is very talented and I had hoped it would work but I think Seth Rogen and Michel had a different take on the character.... I had to have some humanity and to try to give it something where you could understand why the character was the way he was but I don't think there was enough time to develop it.
Cage continued by saying that he "wasn't interested in just being just a straight-up bad guy who was killing people willy-nilly."
While it's nice to see actors looking for scripts with character development, isn't that partly the actor's job to provide? In any case, it'll be interesting to see what Waltz does with the role.