Latest Development on The Green Hornet Movie

Identified to fight crime as a vigilante, The Green Hornet was originally a radio program and later on appeared on prints, television and big screen. A story of a newspaper publisher named Britt Reid, who goes out by night with his “green hornet” mask. Together with his masked Asian servant, Kato, both of them helped the community to fight crimes armed with high-tech gadgets and of course, mastered hand-to-hand combat skills. In addition to this, a sonic blast weapon called “Hornet's String” became his popular equipment during the TV series.

Basically an adaptation which introduced martial arts on the first time in television during late 60s, Played by Van Williams as the Green Hornet and the late martial arts expert, Bruce Lee starred as Kato which made him into stardom.

According to Variety, Columbia Pictures is currently negotiating with Nicolas Cage to play the gangster in the much awaited remake of The Green Hornet the Movie. As confirmed stars Seth Rogen will play as the masked crime fighter and rumors spreading that Michel Gondry (the director of the film) is considering Cameron Diaz as the love interest. As they are still looking for replacement for Stephen Chow (as sidekick Kato).

Shooting of this film will begin in a few months to target its 2010 tentative release.

"The Green Hornet" fans got a super treat at San Diego's Comic Con from Seth Rogen! The actor unveiled the car, which is a central character of the film. It's known as Black Beauty!

Quotes from Seth Rogen at Comic-Con San Diego about the upcoming film in the making:

Rogen: I mean there’s going to be some humor in it. We’re looking at movies like True Lies, I don’t know if you remember that movie. But kind of like movies where the action is taken as seriously as it can be, but like the relationships between the characters are funny, I mean, like Beverly Hills Cop, movies like that, Midnight Run. Those are the movies we’ve been talking about. But kind of the superhero version of that so it will just be bigger and more action and kind of a slightly heightened reality, I guess, because there’s guys in masks and shit like that.

Additional update that famous Korean Actor, Kwon Sang-Woo will be playing as Kato. Until now, nothing is confirmed among these speculations.

source: empiremovies and variety