After a bumpy road, where speculation was rife at one point that the whole project had been abandoned, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's big screen adaptation of The Green Hornet is now before the cameras. Under the stewardship of director Michel Gondry, The Green Hornet's cast currently has in its ranks Rogen himself in the title role, along with Cameron Diaz, the mighty Edward James Olmos, Jay Chou and Tom Wilkinson.

But it doesn't seem to have Nicolas Cage on board anymore. Cage was widely reported to be playing the villain of the piece, and while there was never formal word that he'd signed on the dotted line, it all seemed to be a done deal. Apparently, no footage with Cage has been shot for The Green Hornet and he's not involved the project. Whether he was on board for a period of time and then departed for some reason remains to be seen. Might that second Ghost Rider movie be closer than we first thought, we wonder?

Moviehole reports that the role Cage was supposed to play, however, wasn't a large one (maybe we're talking something akin to Eric Bana in Star Trek?), and work is inevitably afoot to bring a new face in to do battle with Rogen's Hornet. We'd expect, given that the shoot is underway, to be hearing further news on this story sooner rather than later...

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