Feel the sting of... THE GREEN HORNET (New Trailer!)

Grey Ghost

The Green Hornet is a masked crimefighter first featured on American radio in the 1930s. By day he is mild-mannered newspaper publisher BRITT REID, but at night he and his assistant KATO don masks and take to the streets in their super badass car, the BLACK BEAUTY, to take on crime in all its forms. Their trick is that even though they're heroes, they still have such a bad reputation with law enforcement that they're able to get closer to the criminal syndicates than they normally could, though you'd think they'd catch on after a while. I have some tapes of the old radio shows, which were pretty rad, along with a bunch of Shadow radio stories but that's neither here nor there.

(There was also a nifty little fact that Britt Reid is the Lone Ranger's great-nephew.)

After he got big on the radio, some comics came along:


There was also a TV series for a while in the 60s, which I really enjoyed re-runs of (and which had Bruce mo'fuckin' Lee as Kato):


And now there's a feature film starring Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Christoph Waltz and Cameron Diaz, and directed by Michel Gondry!



The trailer for which just premiered:
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808411967/trailer

Here it is on Youtube if that's more your thing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBgT-IPKWJ4

New Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m0toxZjD6U

And we can also talk about the Shadow and the Phantom if you want, they have a similar pulpy vibe.

Dr.Funkenstein

tits

Cilla Black

Honestly I'm mostly excited about this for Christoph Waltz.

Grey Ghost

Cilla Black wrote: »

Honestly I'm mostly excited about this for Christoph Waltz.

Nicolas Cage had the role originally but had to drop out. I'm really glad Waltz has it now.

Cilla Black

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Cilla Black wrote: »

Honestly I'm mostly excited about this for Christoph Waltz.

Nicolas Cage had the role originally but had to drop out. I'm really glad Waltz has it now.

Oh man really?

wow, just wow

the difference there is staggering

cj iwakura

So Kevin Smith's role in this. Non existent?

Grey Ghost

Actually, let me rephrase that. Cage was going to play the long-time villain Mr. X, but when he dropped out they created the new character for Waltz to play. So, not the same role per se.

Barcardi

So.... why the rap?

Grey Ghost

cj iwakura wrote: »

So Kevin Smith's role in this. Non existent?

Yeah, he announced back in 2006 that he officially has nothing to do with this project.

Cilla Black

Talking about the Shadow, the old classic radio show is still pretty dang good. Obviously dated in many ways, but of the few I've listened to several have managed to be genuinely a shade creepy.

They're always campy in an awesome way by the end of the story, but the vocal atmosphere produced is really good. Kinda wish we still had radio dramas. A well done one is an excellent experience that just isn't entirely replaced by even an equally well done TV show.

Larlar

Cilla Black wrote: »

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Cilla Black wrote: »

Honestly I'm mostly excited about this for Christoph Waltz.

Nicolas Cage had the role originally but had to drop out. I'm really glad Waltz has it now.

Oh man really?

wow, just wow

the difference there is staggering

Not to mention the difference in me wanting to watch it.

Cilla Black

I'll admit though that seeing Cage acting a villain might have been hilarious enough by itself to warrant seeing the movie. Has he ever done it before?

UnbreakableVow

Whoa whoa whoa

I knew about this whole Seth Rogen Green Hornet thing

What I did not know was Michel Gondry directing

Gonna watch the trailer now

Grey Ghost

Cilla Black wrote: »

I'll admit though that seeing Cage acting a villain might have been hilarious enough by itself to warrant seeing the movie. Has he ever done it before?

Well he played both the hero and the villain of Face/Off, as did John Travolta. And then there was:

Spoiler:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLcmAwBJgng

edit: WHOA HEY THERE'S SOME TITS IN THAT YOUTUBE VIDEO

MarioG

Woo 3D!

UnbreakableVow

I liked that trailer!

But January? Way to have no faith in the film, movie studios

Grey Ghost

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

I liked that trailer!

But January? Way to have no faith in the film, movie studios

Yeah, I'm worried about that.

DarkPrimus

Man Seth Rogan, it's like he got his head CGI'd on someone else. I knew he was getting in shape but damn he did a fine job of it.

Zonugal

Oh Yeah!



We're talking about the Phantom!

UnbreakableVow

Whenever I mention Billy Zane and no one knows he is, I always say he was the Phantom

But then I just have to say that he was the "bad guy in Titanic"

Grey Ghost

I dig the Phantom and I think Billy Zane was actually pretty good in the role, but it's too bad that basically every other aspect of that movie sucked.

And now there's that Sci-Fi miniseries but I think the less said about that the better.

Zonugal

Billy Zane is one of top five favorite B-star actors. Everything he does I immediately love.

Local H Jay

DarkPrimus wrote: »

Man Seth Rogan, it's like he got his head CGI'd on someone else. I knew he was getting in shape but damn he did a fine job of it.

dude isn't really that fat, he puts on weight for movies. he explains it that people find fat people funnier for most forms of comedy.
plus he probably gets to eat like shit

Keith

I didn't really like that trailer

Zonugal

I really dug that trailer. I feel the reboot to our contemporary times works really well.

Zonugal

Also if we're going to continue to discuss awesome films I feel it's only appropriate to bring in this baby.



Such a terrific film.

Cilla Black

Man, that movie.

Zonugal

That film is almost the perfect way for me to gauge if I will like someone based on their sole opinion of it.

ThatDudeOverThere

seems worth checking out

Local H Jay

seth rogen appreciation station
skip to 1:40
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNO6OUd6iOc&feature=channel

UnbreakableVow

You know

I like pulpy films like this

And I love Alec Baldwin

But I have not seen The Shadow, and I should rectify this immediately

Homestar Gunner

That trailer looked cool but it did not look like a Michel Gondry movie at all. I'm a little worried about that.

Cilla Black

Not going to watch the trailer. Might actually stop watching trailers entirely. They're almost always poor indicators of the actual movie, especially if not being made by the same people who worked on the film itself.

cj iwakura

The Shadow is a grade-a classic, though I haven't seen it in like a decade.

Grey Ghost

I don't know that I'd call The Shadow grade-a. But it was fun.

UnbreakableVow

Homestar Gunner wrote: »

That trailer looked cool but it did not look like a Michel Gondry movie at all. I'm a little worried about that.

Should he be tripping through his dreams or memories or something? Or maybe the film could be comprised entirely of Legos?

cj iwakura

Well yeah, that might be exaggerating, but it was really good.

Zonugal

Lets just say that the Shadow is a film that can never really let down your expectations, and for that it is something magical.

Koshian

oh wow

seth rogan has really lost a lot of weight

Brodo Faggins

Why Jay Chou? They couldn't get Jon Cho? Or hell, even Rain? Rain's english makes me cringe, but Jay Chou's english makes me shudder.

cj iwakura

Jay Chou? Wait a sec, the guy from the Initial D movie?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfrIGzV19f0&feature=related