The Green Hornet

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June 23, 2008


Columbia Pictures has launched their official site for The Green Hornet, complete with a snazzy title treatment that touts star Seth Rogen's involvement and the planned June 25, 2010 release date.

The Knocked Up funnyman will star and write the script for the action-packed adaptation based on The Green Hornet radio program, TV show and comic adventures that have remained popular since the character's creation in the 1930s.

The story centers on newspaper publisher Britt Reid who fights crime as the masked adventurer alongside his ass-whoopin' sidekick Kato (famously played on the '60s TV series by Bruce Lee).

Rogen recently said that the movie is expected to have a PG-13 rating. "That's an action movie, you can do anything violence-wise," he said.

And Rogen also says that he'd love to have Kung Fu Hustle actor Stephen Chow as Kato.


Official site :- http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/thegreenhornet/

[massacre man]

Seth Rogen. Whooooooooo!

[GorePhobia]

This is definitely sweet news.

[phantomstranger]

I remember several years ago when George Clooney was signed on to be "The Green Hornet" and Jason Scott Lee was to be his Kato. It sounded like a good idea but Clooney left the project to make a movie called "The Peacemaker"and never returned to it. Of course he did make a super hero movie when he did the God-awful "Batman And Robin"but the less said about that the better.

Historical footnote: Did you know that The Green Hornet is the great grandson of The Lone Ranger?

[neverending]

I thought it was his nephew!

[phantomstranger]

Originally Posted by neverending

I thought it was his nephew!

You know,it might actually be grand nephew. Let's just keep it at their related.

[The_Return]

From Van Williams' (the original TV Green Hornet) IMDB Biography:

You could shoehorn actor Van Williams right in there between the other tall, dark and drop-jaw gorgeous heartthrobs...of the late 1950s/early 1960s who conveyed a similar bland, heroic image.

Yep, sounds a heck of a lot like Seth Rogen. I'm glad that I've never been too attached to Green Hornet, because this has Steve Martin-Pink Panther levels of disaster and disrespect written all over it.

[neverending]

Originally Posted by phantomstranger

You know,it might actually be grand nephew. Let's just keep it at their related.

From Wiki:

The Lone Ranger's nephew was Dan Reid. In the Green Hornet radio shows, the Hornet's father was likewise named Dan Reid, making the hero the Ranger's grand-nephew

[GorePhobia]

Originally Posted by The_Return

From Van Williams' (the original TV Green Hornet) IMDB Biography:



Yep, sounds a heck of a lot like Seth Rogen. I'm glad that I've never been too attached to Green Hornet, because this has Steve Martin-Pink Panther levels of disaster and disrespect written all over it.

I don't think so at all.

With Rogen and Goldberg writing it I think it could be a blast.

With the Pink Panther movies they were awful because they weren't even funny. If they make this campy and funny with action I think it could be good.

[The_Return]

Originally Posted by neverending

From Wiki:

Funny...they also share a name with a local radio host in my neck of the woods that was arrested for kiddy porn.