This upcoming movie is based upon the character first popularized in a national radio series that ran from 1939-1952. It was also adapted in comic books and a 1966 TV series that ran for one season on ABC, starring Van Williams as the Green Hornet and catapulting Bruce Lee, who played Kato, to stardom. The Green Hornet (2010) stars, Seth Rogen as Britt Reid/The Green Hornet, a wealthy newspaper publisher who is secretly the masked crimefighter The Green Hornet, Jay Chou as Kato the Green Hornet’s valet and sidekick and who is expertly proficient in martial arts, and Christoph Waltz as Benjamin Chudnofsky, a paranoid Russian gangster who plans to join all of the crime families of Los Angeles together to organize a “super-mafia.
The Green Hornet (2010) is under the direction of Michel Gondry, and it is scheduled to be released on January 14, 2011. It is a crime/gangster, adaptation, and an action/adventure film under the distribution of Sony Pictures. This is for MPAA Rating PG-13 for sequences of violent action, language, sensuality and drug content.