Seth Rogen talks to MakingOf's CEO Christine Aylward at Comic-Con about bringing The Green Hornet to the big screen

(Seth Rogen) I love being here because I'm a big comic book fan.  I read comic books, I would probably be here if I wasn't promoting a movie, so it's great to directly be able to communicate with the people who are most into this type of movie.

(MakingOf) I want to know how did The Green Hornet all come together.  You and Evan, you're co-writers...tell us a little bit about how it all came together...

(SR) For years and years we've been wanting...trying to do a...some sort of superhero movie, specifically one that kind of explored the relationship between a hero and a sidekick.  That's something that we always thought was really interesting and something that we had never really seen a movie about.  And we could never quite crack it, and then someone mentioned that The Green Hornet was a movie that was looking for writers and that we could meet on it potentially.  And we really realized that you know that could be the perfect movie to kind of explore that relationship because, you know, Kato is actually a lot more famous than the green hornet in a lot of ways, because of Bruce Lee, and we realized that it could actually be the perfect movie to try to be the one that we made as our movie that explored that relationship.

(MO) So when you got involved was it set up at Sony already and was Michel (Gondry) attached?

(SR) No, uh, Neal Moritz was attached as a producer and it was set up at Sony but there was no director attached.  And me and Evan pitched kind of a take on the script and then we wrote a draft and then we went out looking for directors and we had steven chow as a director for a while, and then that kind of didn't quite work out, and then we got Gondry.

(MO) I want to know about life with you as a co-writer with Evan and what that looks like and how you write together...

(SR) Uhhh...it's usually us sitting together in one of our apartments, or houses.  One of us sitting, the other guy pacing around.  But we work really well together.  We don't argue very much.  We really work together almost the exact same way we did when we were 14 years old, I mean, we've probably gotten a little more efficient but it probably looks very similar to how it looked then.  And yeah, I think we work good together.

(MO) And no you make the transition from being writer to actor.  When you have written a screenplay and you are now in the acting role, how is that for you?

(SR) It's nice when you have a director who is always trying to bring new things to the material and isn't just trying to bring what you've written to life specifically.  It's fun never knowing kind of what new ideas are going to come up and what new directions the material could go.  And when you have all these awesome actors playing the roles that you've written, then it's just really exciting on a day to day basis.

(MO) Can you paint a little picture for us of maybe just one specific example of life on set behind the scenes, because so much that goes into the process of making a movie is completely unseen to fans.

(SR) There's a lot of people...It really ranges from being the most calm and relaxed experience you've ever seen to people screaming at each other frantically trying to get something done before the sun goes down or comes up or trying to do something before we blow up the car, and we can only do it once and can't blow it up again because we only have one car or something like that.  Or they only got the Black Beauty without the machine guns and we needed the Black Beauty with the machine guns.  So it all depends really but in general I realize now as a guy who makes movies...most of my life has been on set and I try to make that the rewarding part of the experience and I try not to make the movie's release or coming out the rewarding part because I spend way more time actually making these movies you know.  So I try to make it as much fun as possible.