Meet THE GREEN HORNET *UPDATED WITH TRAILER*
The trailer for Michel Gondry's The Green Hornet will be arriving at midnight tonight, apparently, and to whet the appetite the powers that be at Sony have seen fit to finally release the first two images of Seth Rogen and Jay Chou in action as the titular Hornet and Kato. Though getting this production off the ground ended up being kind of a messy process - thanks largely to the "is he in or is he out" Stephen Chow dance - but they've ended up with a very fun director in Gondry, a capable Kato in Jay Chou, and one fantastic villain in Christoph Waltz. Throw in a fantastic support cast and the only real questions are whether people are going to find Seth Rogen believable as an action hero and how the script will hold up. We should have a better idea tonight ...
Britt Reid is the son of LA's most prominent and respected media magnate and perfectly happy to maintain a directionless existence on the party scene -- until his father mysteriously dies, leaving Britt his vast media empire. Striking an unlikely friendship with one of his father's more industrious and inventive employees, Kato, they see their chance to do something meaningful for the first time in their lives: fight crime. But in order to do this, they decide to become criminals themselves -- protecting the law by breaking it, Britt becomes the vigilante The Green Hornet as he and Kato hit the streets.
Using all his ingenuity and skill, Kato builds the ultimate in advanced retro weaponry, The Black Beauty, an indestructible car equal parts firepower and horsepower. Rolling in a mobile fortress on wheels and striking the bad guys with Kato's clever gadgets, The Green Hornet and Kato quickly start making a name for themselves, and with the help of Britt's new secretary, Lenore Case, they begin hunting down the man who controls LA's gritty underworld: Benjamin Chudnofsky. But Chudnofsky has plans of his own: to swat down The Green Hornet once and for all.
