“I try not to get into too much detail because they’re going to hire a fight choreographer anyway,” Smith said. “So I’ve always been a screenwriter that when it comes to the prose sections of the script, the scripted passages, in my own scripts I’ve always left them relatively thin because A, there’s not much action going on, so hence not much need for screen direction. And B, I just feel like I know what it’s going to look like when I direct it so I don’t need to waste page space with scene descriptions or action descriptions. But when it comes to something like this, you do have to kind of lay it out visually for people because this movie like Green Hornet isn’t supposed to be dialogue driven. They want moments, tentpole moments and stuff. So I tend to describe just enough and then leave it open for interpretation by a fight choreographer or whoever winds up directing it if it’s not me.”

The project is set up at Miramax/Dimension, and with indications that the Weinsteins are not going to leave Disney, the project looks to stay on track. “If anything, I guess maybe Harvey is now going to step down as cochairman and take a production deal, if what I’ve read in some of the papers is true,” Smith continued. “In any event, that’s not going to happen for at least a year or something, because he’s still got time left in his deal. So it seems like everything for the next year or maybe two is going to be status quo. And regardless, Bob is staying at Miramax and continuing to run Dimension and Harvey’s just going to set up a production deal and become a production entity, I guess similar to what Joe Roth is doing or has done with Revolution. So he’s still going to be there, which means I’m still going to be there. Maybe Harvey could negotiate it into his production deal that it would become a movie that would be done under his new shingle, but right now we’re on track to start that movie in March or April of 2005. So I don’t think Harvey’s going anywhere before that.”