Producer/writer/actor Will Reiser will reteam with longtime collaborators and filmmakers Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and Jonathan Levine to develop a comedy film called “Jamaica.” The idea for the film, which will be made through Mandate Pictures, came from his real life experiences much like “50/50″; in this film, Reiser is going to base the plot around a vacation he took to Jamaica with his grandmother when he was 14. “This is a story that I’ve long wanted to tell,” said Reiser. “It’s something of a passion project for me, and I couldn’t be more excited to have found it a home at Mandate.” “We feel privileged to have another opportunity…

The January 2011 release of “The Green Hornet” may have seemed like nothing more than yet another calculated move by Hollywood to co-opt an existent fan base and limit its own commercial exposure. And it “was”, sure. But a film adaptation of this property — based on the original 1930s radio program, which has lived on in movie serials and comic books — was in the works for more than a decade, with a long list of actors inclusive of George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Jet Li and Stephen Chow all at one point attached, in various combinations. In fact, a visionary music video director named Michel Gondry was hired in…

According to “Variety”, renowned Hong Kong comedian, producer, and martial arts actor and director Stephen Chow has dropped out of directing the big-screen adaptation of “The Green Hornet”. No new director has been announced yet though producer Neil Moritz and Columbia Studios are setting up to find one and hope to maintain their timeline of starting shooting the action-comedy in the spring. Though he will still be starring alongside “Knocked Up” and “Zach and Miri Make a Porno” star Seth Rogen as the black-clad Kato to Rogen’s take on the masked green-clad avenger in a trench coat, based on the character, created in the 1930′s as a character in a…

Seth Rogen (“Knocked Up”, “The 40-Year Old Virgin”), according to Scifi.com, has told reporters that he has been working out and slimming down for the title role in “The Green Hornet”, a screenplay written by him and Evan Goldberg, based on the classic radio hero Green Hornet and his chauffer/sidekick Kato. While doing press for the upcoming Kevin Smith film “Zack and Miri Make a Porno”, starring Rogen and Elizabeth Banks, he said “You need to physically believe I can run around and jump over s–t and punch people […] It’s all just to serve the movie. Comic book or not, it’s just a commitment to the movie. I mean,…