The Producer of The Green Hornet (2011) Neal H. Moritz considered filming The Green Hornet in Detroit, Michigan; New York City and Louisiana, but ultimately chose Los Angeles, California, as the primary location shooting. “Ultimately, we made the decision, and thankfully the studio agreed with us, that the creative positives of shooting in Los Angeles outweighed the tax incentives offered to us elsewhere,” Moritz said. Principal photography began at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California on September 2, 2009 for one week. Filming then moved to Chinatown, Los Angeles for scenes featuring Kato’s apartment. Through November, other locations included Sun Valley, Holmby Hills, Bel-Air, Hawthorne and various locations downtown, including City Hall and the Los Angeles Times Building, which stands in for the newspaper where Britt Reid works.
The Green Hornet (2011) stars, Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz, Christoph Waltz, Edward James Olmos, David Harbour, and Tom Wilkinson. It is an action/adventure and a crime/gangster film directed Michel Gondry, scheduled to be released on January 14, 2011. It is under the distribution of Sony Pictures and based on the MPAA PG-13 for sequences of violent action, language, sensuality and drug content.