The MYTHBUSTERS are getting into action hero mode again – this time with Seth Rogen, Canadian star and co-writer of the just-launched 3D action comedy The Green Hornet. On Sunday, February 13 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, Discovery Channel presents a MYTHBUSTERS’ Green Hornet special episode, featuring Rogen and the MYTHBUSTERS team taking on two exciting scenes from the new movie The Green Hornet, just released in theatres this past weekend.
A long-time MYTHBUSTERS fan, Rogen (Superbad, Pineapple Express) wanted to find out what would happen when some of these Hollywood scenes are played out in real life. “I’m a big fan of MYTHBUSTERS,” said Rogen. “We were making a big action movie and it just seemed like the only time we could do something like this. I watch the show all the time and it just seemed cool to see if the stuff in our movie was possible in any way, shape or form.”
The MYTHBUSTERS team, with Rogen as their assistant, tackles two pivotal scenes from the film. First up is “Explosive Escape,” where The Green Hornet (Rogen) and his tech-savvy sidekick Kato (Jay Chou, Curse of the Golden Flower) are buried alive in the Green Hornet’s iconic car Black Beauty and blast their way out using the car’s built-in rockets. Mythbusters Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, together with Rogen, re-create this explosive silver screen scene… with a little TNT party.
Then, in “Elevator Car Cut,” Rogen asks the MYTHBUSTERS crew to take on another action sequence from the movie, where The Green Hornet and Kato again find themselves in a jam. After being shot up by bad guys, they crash Black Beauty into an elevator. As the elevator ascends, it slices the car in half, leaving them to escape in the front half of the car. To test this scene, the team build their own elevator from 3 ½ tons of steel, chop a car in half and take half a car to the racetrack. Will any of these results be Hollywood ready?
Based upon “The Green Hornet” radio series created by George W. Trendle, the 3D action-comedy The Green Hornet follows Britt Reid (Seth Rogen), the son of L.A.’s most prominent and respected media magnate. Britt was perfectly happy to maintain a directionless existence on the party scene until his father mysteriously dies, leaving Britt his vast media empire. Striking an unlikely friendship with one of his father’s more industrious and inventive employees, Kato, they see their chance to do something meaningful for the first time in their lives: fight crime. To get close to the criminals, they come up with the perfect cover: they’ll pose as criminals themselves. Protecting the law by breaking it, Britt becomes the vigilante The Green Hornet as he and Kato hit the streets…
