Seth Rogen is set to star as the Green Hornet

green iron casting After months of murmurings, Seth Rogen is set to star as the Green Hornet in the upcoming, eponymous film. Per EW , Rogen will play the story's hero, Britt Reid, a playboy with timeand money on his hands. He inherits his dad's newspaper and startsfighting crime at night with his buddy Kato. Rogen and writingpartner Evan Goldberg are writing and producing the film. The Knocked Up star may seem like an unlikely choice to play a studly, wingedcrusader in a deal that could end in a stinging disaster. Yet,similarly surprising choices have worked out to be inspired ones inother such flicks, like Tobey Maguire 's Spider-Man and even Robert Downey Jr. 's Iron Man . How do you think the Hornet casting will fly? You have time to mull it over; The movie opensin June 2010.