Too bad Donner said yes. LOL
I like Smith. His movies are entertaining, and really, that's what it's all about. I don't get the animosity on boards like this towards Smith and his comments about SR. He's said the same things that a LOT of people have said; he's just more outspoken and humorous about it. But that's his personality. He's a HUGE comic book and superhero fan, and in fact owns a comic book store. And he's a director. C'mon people.
Here's an excerpt from An Evening with Kevin Smith 2.
(I "cleaned" it up substantially - we all know how Kevin talks LOL)
Question: Would you ever consider doing a Batman or Superman type movie, or Fantastic Four?
Kevin Smith: A comic book movie? At one point I was attached - and still am actually - to The Green Hornet. I wrote it but decided not to direct it. For me, I don't have the patience to do a movie like that. I love watching comic book movies - but making one? Bleepin' boring. Action sequences are tedious and slow. They take a day to shoot, and at the end of the day when you cut them together, there's maybe ten seconds of screen time. I also just don't have it in me to be a visual, visceral director. If I could get away with making the least visually interesting comic book movie of all time - that's essentially one of my flicks but the characters wear masks - I'd do it! But nobody would finance that. The thing is, once you take a budget - the budget of Green Hornet will be like 50, 70, 80 million bucks - you have to start listening to what other people have to say. It's no longer your flick. Green Hornet would never be my movie. It would always be this movie that was noted to death because, wisely, the people who invest the money in it ... want to make back their investment. You don't make your money back doing my version of the movie. So essentially, they'd be like an action beat has to happen every ten pages - you have to follow a formula. You'd hear a lot of "do it like Spider-Man."
You've got to give movies like that to people like Bryan Singer. He did X-Men and X-Men 2, and I LOVE those movies. He's doing Superman now. I loved X-Men 2; I thought that was an insanely well made comic book movie, and balanced a lot of storylines.