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darklighter1
March 25th, 2007, 07:08 PM
I wish Hollywood would just take the money they use on some movies and donate it to a starving country instead of throwing it away on a ridiculous idea like this one. The Green Hornet?!?!? The GREEN FUCKING HORNET?!?!?!?!?!? Who in the world today is a fan of the Green Hornet? Besides that no talent hack Kevin Smith that is? I mean when a superhero movie like Ghost Rider flames out as quickly as it did with a far more interesting character than one last heard from in the 60's what chance does this movie have? C'mon Hollywood get it together and just give he money to Darfur or sometin'. This movie will be as big as The Shadow and The Phantom (two other clown superheroes with no fan base or cool villains to make them interesting). OK my nerd rant is over...:mad:

The Green Hornet Coming to Theaters
Wednesday March 21 10:56 AM ET

There's a new buzz in Hollywood: Columbia Pictures is bringing comic-book hero The Green Hornet to the big screen.

The crime-fighting exploits of The Green Hornet have been chronicled for decades on radio, television and in comic books. On Tuesday, Sony Corp.'s Columbia Pictures said it was making a motion picture on the newspaper hero.

Neal H. Moritz and Original Film will produce the movie, Columbia Pictures Presidents of Production Matt Tolmach and Doug Belgrad said. Columbia optioned the rights to The Green Hornet from Moritz, who acquired the rights from Green Hornet Inc.

"With the radio show, television program, comic books and novels, there is ample source material to bring this classic crime fighter to life," Moritz said in a statement.

The Green Hornet made his debut on Jan. 31, 1936, on WXYZ Detroit as the creation of the station's George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, who also created the Lone Ranger. The series ran until 1952 on the Mutual and NBC Blue networks.

The Green Hornet ran in several comic books and, in 1966, the character was turned into an ABC-TV series starring Van Williams as The Green Hornet and Bruce Lee as Kato. It ran for one season.

Mr.T
March 25th, 2007, 07:12 PM
i couldn't agree more.

Hard Drive
March 25th, 2007, 07:35 PM
lol I'd rather see Aquaman...

jdrock24
March 25th, 2007, 09:21 PM
The Green Hornet? When is The Lone Ranger movie coming out?

TheNewNo.2
March 25th, 2007, 09:59 PM
I seem to recall that several years ago, they were talking about a Green Hornet movie with Jet Li playing Kato. Maybe they'll get Tony Jaa to do it for this one. That might make it almost sort of kinda worth thinking about seeing.

I'm as big of a comic fan as anybody (okay, not really, I haven't bought a comic in years, but I'm a HUGE fan of the Justice League animated series and I play City of Heroes all the time :D ), but I'm really getting sick of comic book movies. When they're done right, with A-list directors and a proper vision, like the Spider-man series and Batman Begins, they're awesome, but I'm sooo freaking sick of all these half-assed knockoffs. I had no interest whatsoever in seeing Ghost Rider, I've got no real interest in seeing the forthcoming Iron Man movie, and I really don't care to see the Green Hornet. The market's been so flooded with them that they don't seem remotely special anymore and they've just taken the place of traditional shoot-em-up action movies like Die Hard and Lethal Weapon, and frankly, I miss those kind of movies. I just wanna see somebody get gunned down in a hail of John Woo-esque bullet ballet gunfire!!! OK, now MY nerd rant is over. :p

darklighter1
March 26th, 2007, 10:27 AM
Yup I agree with you guys especially #2. I haven't seen Ghost Rider yet, but when I heard it was family friendly I said "seeya on cable". Was never a big GR fan but it is definitely a dark dark anti-hero kind of a movie if it was to be done properly. Could care less about Iron Man especially with Robert Downey Jr as Stark...horrible casting call if you ask me. Good actor just too measly to play Tony Stark. But Green Hornet still boggles my mind, I'm with Hard Drive in that I'd rather see Aquaman than GH. And I know that was tongue in cheek but at least everyone is familiar with him, even chicks after the Entourage references.

supraman_2
March 26th, 2007, 07:27 PM
Where's Jackie Chan??

durcam
March 26th, 2007, 07:50 PM
Didn't Kato stab OJ or some shit like that