The Abridged Script
FADE IN:
INT. MANSION
SETH ROGEN acts like a DOUCHE with lots of MONEY.
SETH ROGEN
Woo! Check out how vain and rich I am! Kind of like that guy in that other superhero movie!
TOM WILKINSON
You're a complete screw-up!
SETH ROGEN
Um, hello? Seth Rogen? I'm like that in all my movies!
TOM WILKINSON dies OFFSCREEN from NOT BEES.
SETH ROGEN
I'm very sad now, even though we established in a flashback that my father was a complete asshole. Also, I want to rehire whoever made the coffee before he died.
JAY CHOU
Hi! I'm Jay Chou! Not only can I make coffee but I'm also an expert auto mechanic, fantastic at martial arts and a genuinely good actor!
SETH ROGEN
But I'll ironically take all the credit for your competence! Because that's what America wants: a Hong Kong Phooey movie with even less charm.
AMERICA watches reruns of True Blood INSTEAD.
SETH ROGEN
Anyway, I want to rehire you and then complain about/mourn my father.
JAY CHOU
Hey, whatever you want. I'm just glad I'm not an extra in The Last Airbender.
JAY CHOU shows SETH ROGEN a CAR with HUGE SPIKES attached to the rims.
SETH ROGEN
Whoa, my father must have had some enemies!
JAY CHOU
That's your reaction to huge metal spikes attached Speed Racer-style to your dad's car? Not "Holy shit, my father was insane!"?
SETH ROGEN and JAY CHOU cut the head off a statue of TOM WILKINSON, because nothing says 'superhero action movie' like ripping off THE SIMPSONS. Then they beat up some THUGS.
SETH ROGEN
Jay! If we act like we're the bad guys then we can somehow take down all of the city's organized crime syndicates!
JAY CHOU
(shoots THUG in the head)
You're right! Then we'll just have unorganized crime, which is the far more violent and dangerous type!
INT. NEWSPAPER HQ
There is a BOARD MEETING where SETH ROGEN decides on what to name his ALTER EGO.
SETH ROGEN
(douchey grin)
I've got it! The Green Bee!
CAMERON DIAZ
How about The Green Hornet?
SETH ROGEN
Well that sounds no less asinine but since that's the title of the movie we'll go with that. Oh, and can you be smart enough to come up with all our schemes but stupid enough never to catch on?
She DOES
INT. CHRISTOPH WALTZ HQ
CHRISTOPH WALTZ
How dare Seth Rogen try and hone in on my territory! I want anyone wearing green to be killed immediately!
THUG
Why would he wear the exact same color as his alter ego? We aren't dealing with a Power Ranger here.
They do this ANYWAY and it makes SETH ROGEN really, really SAD.
SETH ROGEN
Oh no! Because of me innocent people are dying!
(pause)
Okay, I'm over it now.
CHRISTOPH WALTZ puts on a GAS MASK and manages to be an even lamer villain than ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER.
CHRISTOPH WALTZ
Behold! I am no longer Christoph Waltz! I am now... Blood Waltz!
THUG
Why are you wearing a gas mask?
BLOOD WALTZ
To protect myself from Ryan Reynolds' fart gun!
THUG
That's the Green Lantern, Waltz.
BLOOD WALTZ
Jack Black's fart gun!
THUG
That's who would've played the Green Lantern if the universe was far more cruel. Our enemy is the guy based on the guy from the TV show most people skipped to watch Adam West stuff himself into a girdle.
DAVID HARBOUR talks to SETH ROGEN in a BAR because nobody can get through this without getting HAMMERED.
DAVID HARBOUR
It was 'I' who killed your father, Seth! I've been working for Blood Waltz the entire time! Now I'm going to kill you for using your dead father's newspaper to promote The Green Hornet and tarnish my position as D.A.!
SETH ROGEN
My god! D.A. David Harbour is evil! Who could've possibly seen this coming?!
DAVID HARBOUR
Everyone who saw The Dark Knight.
JAY CHOU helps SETH ROGEN escape and there's a long, ridiculous CAR CHASE that somehow ends at the top floor of a BUILDING.
BLOOD WALTZ
It's time for you to die, Seth Rogen!
JAY CHOU
Not if I stab your eyes with two giant pieces of wood first!
(stabs)
BLOOD WALTZ
Christ, I don't even get a death that doesn't look stupid?
(dies)
DAVID HARBOUR
Hey, at least there's no chance of you appearing in a sequel.
(gets run over)
(dies)
SETH ROGEN and JAY CHOU go to CAMERON DIAZ'S house to hide from the POLICE.
SETH ROGEN
Don't turn us in!
CAMERON DIAZ
Why not?
SETH ROGEN
Because you're hot for Jay and we're acting extremely wacky right now!
EXT. MANSION
SETH ROGEN and JAY CHOU fix the TOM WILKINSON statue. Again, just like on THE SIMPSONS.
SETH ROGEN
We did good, Jay.
JAY CHOU
What about all those innocent people that were killed because they were wearing green?
CAMERON DIAZ
We also need a new D.A. that isn't corrupt.
JAY CHOU
Are we really just going to end the movie here?
SETH ROGEN
Shhh. If we cut to the credits fast enough nobody'll noti
CREDITS
END
SETH ROGEN MASTURBATION JOKE
Wait! You forgot something!