Green Hornet Movie

[Captain Canuck]

Did you watch the DVD extras? There's a brief interview about writing the movie and Rogen talks about flipping the various things you expect from a superhero movie. So the "sidekick" is the one that really does everything, the "hero" does not immediately become a fighting machine, the villain has confidence issues and so on.

Which is fine, I suppose, but why do it with an established character? You've already got an uphill battle in selling that idea anyway, now you're doing it with a character that some people expect to be portrayed a certain way. Seems like you're just complicating your own life.

I appreciate the exposure he brought to the character and hope that if he goes on with it, he grows up and brings the same to the character, or that he inspires someone else to do a more traditional version.

[Mr. Fantastic]

I was really amazed to read this. Dynamite has published a number of titles under the Green Hornet name, none of which portrayed him in the way people expected.

Which is fine, I suppose, but why do it with an established character? You've already got an uphill battle in selling that idea anyway, now you're doing it with a character that some people expect to be portrayed a certain way. Seems like you're just complicating your own life.

[Captain Canuck]

I think the Year One version is what many people would have expected. The setting, perhaps not, but what about that version of the Hornet was so far off your expectation? Not only does it seem to be faithful to all of the staples of the character, it seems to actually build on them.

[Captain Canuck]

No shock:

http://splashpage.mtv.com/2012/03/14...producer-says/

If you, like me, were a fan of Seth Rogen's version of "The Green Hornet," you're in for a disappointment: a sequel just isn't in the cards, at least not right now.

Producer Neal Moritz spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about a variety of subjects, including his work on this week's comedy "21 Jump Street." Among the topics that came up was "Green Hornet," and Moritz confirmed that a sequel isn't happening anytime soon.

"The movie did almost $250 million and was actually very well liked, but we made the movie for too much money," said the producer. "One, we made it in L.A. for certain reasons, and two, we decided to go to 3D -- that added another $10 million. If I had done it in a tax-rebate state and not done 3D, it would have been considered a huge financial success for the studio. So we're not making a sequel right now."

Look, I loved "The Green Hornet." I loved Seth Rogen and Jay Chou as Britt Reid and Kato, I loved the Black Beauty, I loved Katovision, I even loved Chudnofsky to pieces. So I would be very game to see a sequel at some point down the line. But should Rogen's "Hornet" remain a one-off, that's fine, too—it works perfectly well on its own merit, a stoner action comedy for the ages. My ages, at the very least.

[positronic]

That's a relief. But I'm over the movie by now, I just wish I hadn't thrown away my money on the DVD based on a minority of positive reviewers and a trailer that made the movie look like it really could be kind of fun, if you just adjusted your mindset to expect an action-buddy-comedy flick (which I did -- and boy, was I disappointed). What I'm really still steamed about is that all the movie publicity didn't result in a DVD release for the 1960s TV series (I thought for sure...)!

What a waste of a very cool car.

[Ghornet2]

I have mixed emotions about this. The movie wasn't as bad as I expected. A little to much comedy but . . . I still think it would make a good TV show. With Casey and the DA in on the secret and using the Sentinal staff as information sources or unknowing agents. Set it up similar to TNT's Leverage were they go after the 'criminals with in the law' with the occasional straight gangster or street gang etc. Isn't TNT doing a series of Mystery of the week type movies?

[positronic]

Set it up similar to TNT's Leverage were they go after the 'criminals with in the law' with the occasional straight gangster or street gang etc.

"...So that criminals and racketeers, within the law, may feel its weight... by the sting of the Green Hornet!"

Have to admit I never really understood that. If they're criminals, aren't they, by definition, operating outside the law? Not that they're not subject to the law, like everyone else, but even if they're taking advantage of a legal loophole to fleece innocent citizens, don't they deserve to be busted just on principle? And even the Green Hornet (regardless of his honorable intentions) uses unorthodox, possibly illegal, vigilante methods when it comes to fighting crime, so technically he is breaking the law (not that it matters since he's considered a master criminal by the police anyway).

[Ghornet2]

I always took it to mean either criminals who covered themselves so well the police couldn't touch them or the ones that use 'legal loopholes' and the power of their position to take advantage of the little people.