{"id":5489,"date":"2009-09-15T06:27:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T11:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=5489"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:46:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:46:00","slug":"cage-out-waltz-in-as-hornet-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/15\/cage-out-waltz-in-as-hornet-villain\/","title":{"rendered":"Cage Out, Waltz In As HORNET Villain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/ChristophWaltz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5492\" title=\"ChristophWaltz\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/ChristophWaltz-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"ChristophWaltz\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Hot on the heels of wowing audiences as Nazi in Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s <strong>Inglorious Basterds<\/strong> (and winning the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for it), Austrian actor Christoph Waltz has joined the cast of the already-in-production Green Hornet as the film&#8217;s lead villain. Nicholas Cage had previously been in talks for the role, but walked away from negotiations last week when a deal couldn&#8217;t be finalized.<\/p>\n<p><em>Variety<\/em> describes Waltz&#8217;s character as &#8220;a Los Angeles crime boss who tries to unite the city&#8217;s various gangs in order to form a supermafia.&#8221; His character will be facing opposition from newspaper publisher-turned-vigilante the Green Hornet, to be played by Seth Rogen.<\/p>\n<p>As one of those blown away by his complex performance in <strong>Basterds<\/strong>, I am excited to see that Waltz is already getting more English language work. And while Cage does have his moments, I think that Waltz is a more interesting choice for the role. Then again, I&#8217;m thinking that Waltz is the default more interesting choice for any role.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be seeing <strong>Green Hornet<\/strong> in December 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Hot on the heels of wowing audiences as Nazi in Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s Inglorious Basterds (and winning the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for it), Austrian actor Christoph Waltz has joined the cast <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/15\/cage-out-waltz-in-as-hornet-villain\/\" title=\"Cage Out, Waltz In As HORNET Villain\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[7868,21,2020,3,640,519],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-actors","8":"tag-casting","9":"tag-christoph-waltz","10":"tag-coming-soon","11":"tag-green-hornet","12":"tag-seth-rogen"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5489"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=5489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}