Kevin Smith was at one point attached to make the film adaptation of The Green Hornet. Kevin Smith wants to make it clear he no longer has any interest in that gig. To wit:

“It really comes down to the fact that I’m not
talented enough to pull off a movie like that,” says Smith, in a straightforward fashion. “It was between that and Clerks
II, and I drove toward Clerks II in such a big, bad way. I almost really had to
fight Harvey Weinstein to do Clerks II instead of The Green Hornet, because he was
like, ‘It’s time for you to grow and stretch as a filmmaker,’ and I’m like,
doesn’t anybody fucking get it, after 12 years? I am not that talented. This is
what I do, this is why I got into films, to tell stories like this. I love
watching films, I love comic book movies, I’d love to watch the Green Hornet movie, but I do not want to
be the guy at the helm of that movie.”

“Number one, if I make that movie I lose
the right to make fun of other people for making those movies,” Smith continues. “I learned that
lesson harshly on Jersey Girl. I can’t go after shit like Raising Helen anymore. …But number two, and more importantly, that’s
not the type of story that I like to tell. I like to tell stories about people
sitting around talking to one another, and that’s really all I’m good at, and
most people would argue I’m not very good at that to begin with. So the notion
of doing The Green Hornet is not appealing to me. In comic book form — wonderful. I
love to write comic books. You don’t have to worry about actually shooting it.” For more from Kevin Smith about Clerks II, click here. Or, for a review of the film, click here.