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Universal Rebooting GREEN HORNET & KATO

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 19:44:19 2020 No.114345716 View Reply Original Report

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>Universal Pictures and Amasia Entertainment are partnering on “The Green Hornet and Kato”

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/green-hornet-kato-movie-universal-1234582372/

What did you think of the Seth Rogen one?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 19:45:57 No.114345743 Report

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>>114345716
Cool.

>What did you think of the Seth Rogen one?
It was alright. Rogen was a bad fit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 19:47:21 No.114345777 Report

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>>114345716
I liked the Rogan film but Rogan being casted it in it was fucky and weird.

I really like the green hornet though so I'm excited.

I would dig it if they did a 20's period piece but whatever. I'll buy a ticket to whatever they do. I just want another hornet movie.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 19:51:28 No.114345862 Report

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>>114345716
>What did you think of the Seth Rogen one?
Didn't Kevin Smith direct? Because that film pretty much set the franchise back by at least a decade with how much of a parody it ended up being.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 19:55:52 No.114345955 Report

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>>114345862
>Didn't Kevin Smith direct?

No

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 19:56:43 No.114345970 Report

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>>114345716
This will be interesting

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 20:03:34 No.114346079 Report

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>>114345716
Cool. Premise wise there's nothing wrong with Green Hornet. Count me in.
>>114345777
It reminds me of what would happen had Jack Black actually got to star as Green Lantern

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 20:05:45 No.114346117 Report

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>>114345716
Didn't this happened already?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 20:05:45 No.114346118 Report

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Who would they even cast for this?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 20:07:10 No.114346140 Report

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>>114346079
I kinda wish that jack black shit happened. What a beautiful trainwreck that would have been.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 20:11:40 No.114346220 Report

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>>114345743
Yeah. I liked the premise, an indictment of media sensationalism dressed up as action movie, but they could have used a different lead. It wasn't terrible, but it could have been a lot better.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 20:12:29 No.114346238 Report

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>>114345862
No. Kevin Smith was signed on to write a direct a green hornet film prior to that. He wrote the script but decided directing it would be out of his wheelhouse so he managed to get out of that contract. They ended up having another script done and that project eventually evolved into the green hornet project starring seth rogan and directed by Michel gondry.

Kevin Smith's script did eventually see the light of day in the form of green hornet as a comic. Published by dynamite as "kevin Smith's the green hornet". It follows a britt raid who is taking over the mantle of green hornet from his father(who had long since retired ad the hornet) after his death and aside from a few kevin Smith'isms the book is actually pretty good and I'd recommend at least thr first arc. It's all free on comixology unlimited as well.

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Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 20:14:54 No.114346281 Report

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>>114346220
How was it an indictment of sensational journalism? I didnt get that theme from it at all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 20:16:43 No.114346320 Report

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>>114345743
I think it ultimately suffered from the same problem the Alec Baldwin Shadow did. It was coming out on the heels of a very successful Batman movie so if they tried to play it straight and serious it would have just been labeled a copycat attempt. Making it an indictment of media sensationalism was an interesting and funny twist though, especially with Chudnofsky being so frustrated that just being a cold blooded gangster was scary enough anymore.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 20:19:27 No.114346378 Report

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>>114346281
The fact that Britt was using his Dad's paper to hype his own antics with tabloid style journalism, much to the annoyance of the old school reporters that worked there. Also Chudnofsky having to "rebrand" himself as Bloodnofsky because everyone was telling him he needed a flashy gimmick.

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Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 20:19:47 No.114346384 Report

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Based

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Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 20:21:15 No.114346408 Report

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>>114345716
>What did you think of the Seth Rogen one?
An abortion and a crime against man.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 20:23:40 No.114346454 Report

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>>114346378
I guess I didnt read Reid's actions as an indictment because he new he was full of shit but was using it as a tool to a specific end(aside from just clicks or exploiting gossip).

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 20:25:48 No.114346488 Report

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>>114346454
Maybe indictment is a strong word, more like commentary on how much the media relies on sensationalism these days.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 20:26:52 No.114346511 Report

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>>114345716
Why as a movie, though? Why not a show? It's not like you need a huge budget for it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 20:36:25 No.114346677 Report

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>>114345716
They need to set it in the 1930s, maybe adapt Matt Wagner's The Green Hornet: Year One comic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 20:46:32 No.114346856 Report

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>>114346238
Is that the one with the girl Kato?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 20:51:25 No.114346941 Report

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>>114346118
Taylor Kitsch?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 20:59:00 No.114347070 Report

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>>114346856
Yeah. The original Kato is mentoring britt and his daughter is teaming up with him. along with the original Kate's nephew who is their tech guy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 21:03:07 No.114347153 Report

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>>114347070
I recall one issue with the two of them at a comic convention and referencing how China considers Kato as the hero and GH as the goofy sidekick.

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Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 21:05:03 No.114347194 Report

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>>114345716
>What did you think of the Seth Rogen one?

It was really good for taking down the idea of a rich vigilante since he was completely inept, this point >>114346378 and coasted entirely on Kato's work. I liked Chudnofsky's transformation too since he was already a brutal crimelord and he lost his entire control because he became obsessed with creating a character rather than what he should've done ("You need a character"/"Shut up"). The film famously suffered two big issues:

>Stephen Chow was signed on to be Kato because he never knew The Green Hornet as anything but "The Kato Show" (how it was edited for Chinese audiences) AND thought he'd write/direct it. He showed up with his own script (which involved Kato creating a mind control device to pilot The Green Hornet like he was a robot) and was blown away when he learned he was a co-star to Rogen and the premise was completely different. Rogen didn't know Chow's history and thought he was cut-rate Jackie Chan which did not go over well with Chow.

>Michel Gondry needed to deliver a home run to Sony and wanted a bigger budget, Sony gave him this and then Sony was shocked when Gondry wanted to be experimental. Rogen sided with Sony and demanded a more general action comedy. Sony then delayed the film a third time deciding the film (in a dark tonal irony) needed "a character" and forced Gondry to make it be a 3D film.

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Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 21:20:01 No.114347443 Report

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I kind of feel that they should make the new Green Hornet and Kato legacy characters. And have Jet Li play the Original Kato, passing the torch to his successor. Mainly because of his starring role in Black Mask.

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Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 21:23:14 No.114347495 Report

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>>114345716
>Green Hornet Kato turned into Pink Panther Cato halfway through
I found that funny.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 21:32:17 No.114347641 Report

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>>114345716
What if Kato was black?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 21:33:49 No.114347668 Report

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>>114346320
I mean it's not like it's hard to veer from Batman and play it halfway between straight and a parody of the source material.

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Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 21:34:48 No.114347682 Report

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>>114347641
The Green Hornet will be black, Kato will be a woman

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Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 22:07:45 No.114348173 Report

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>>114346320
>It was coming out on the heels of a very successful Batman movie so if they tried to play it straight and serious it would have just been labeled a copycat attempt.
Everytime I think about The Shadow movie I remember that the project had been a thing since the early 1980s, back when Walter Gibson was still alive, Sam Raimi was trying really hard to make it happen, and apparently Jeremy Irons was being considered for the role, and then I get sad.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 22:16:45 No.114348330 Report

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>>114346118

I'd happily accept anyone who can do the beautiful idiot type like Ashton Kutcher, Paul Rudd, or like Adam Scott to play GH

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 22:27:43 No.114348550 Report

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>>114348173
Well we did get Darkman out of it. And honestly I went back and rewatched the Baldwin Shadow and it's a genuinely entertaining movie without being overtly silly.

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Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 22:57:02 No.114349080 Report

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>>114348550
I like the movie too. I've learned to enjoy it more for what it is than for what I wish it was, or what it could have been.

But it still makes me sad that we could have had a potentially much better movie starring the character, long before Tim Burton's Batman, to really reintroduce him to modern audiences without him being primarily known as "the character that inspired/was ripped off by Batman" or through a movie that was, ironically, trying it's hardest to ride the coattails of Burton's Batman.

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Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 22:58:25 No.114349103 Report

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>>114345716
Wait.... so this is now the 3rd reboot?

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Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 23:17:42 No.114349443 Report

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>>114346118

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Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 23:23:36 No.114349548 Report

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I didn’t see that movie, did they ever call Kato by the actual pronunciation or are we stuck with it like we are with Hamato Yoshi and Oroku Saki

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 23:23:39 No.114349550 Report

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>>114349103
What I would give for venture bros comics.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 23:43:28 No.114349891 Report

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>>114345777
The Green Hornet started on radio in 1936 and I agree the character would work best in that era.

Of course I would love a James Bond movie set in Cold War 1954, so Hollywood isn't askingme for advice...

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Anonymous Fri 17 Apr 2020 00:24:58 No.114350697 Report

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>>114346320
well it's a good thing WB isn't making a batman movie that's probably going to print money, sure this time they'll get it right

being a hornet fan is a curse

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Anonymous Fri 17 Apr 2020 00:30:30 No.114350805 Report

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>>114346118

These guys

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Apr 2020 00:30:33 No.114350806 Report

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>>114350697
Consider this; the more niche a thing is the less likely it will be perverted by conpermorisation and corporate pie-fucking

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Apr 2020 00:31:40 No.114350828 Report

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>>114350806
*contemporisation

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Apr 2020 01:19:45 No.114351792 Report

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>>114349891

If it's not a period piece in 1930's to 1950 at latest I'll be disappointed man

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Apr 2020 01:21:01 No.114351811 Report

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Enjoyed the original series, but haven't seen the movie yet.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Apr 2020 01:28:46 No.114351938 Report

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>>114350806
it'll also flop and never get the recognition and future works it deserves

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Apr 2020 01:29:41 No.114351960 Report

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>>114351938
Better to die good than to be the metaphorical dead horse.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Apr 2020 02:27:08 No.114352985 Report

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>>114345716
Fuck they should hire Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick to do it. Best version of Kato and Green Hornet in decades

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Apr 2020 02:34:12 No.114353127 Report

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>>114352985
Here’s your plot
>supervillains and superhero’s are “real”
>they’re paid out by gangsters who keep them “play fighting” some do take it seriously and actually hate each other and do fight for kills and blood
>the gangsters also own these new “super hero” insurance companies that provide insurance to cover the often extravagant damages caused by battles
>they also own a bunch of newspapers and social media sites that hype up both sides and make a killing off merchandise
>the green hornet is a failed hero and his side kick (they quit once they find out it’s all bullshit) who move out of New York into a decrepit neighborhood I’m New Jersey, cashing in on a great, grand uncles will
>turns out he was the green hornet and his (outdated) super cave is still around
>they decide to bring real justice to the world and start offing villains and corrupt heros
>have them kill a bunch of pastiches/parodies of popular characters
>set up a sequel by having him off one gangster and setting him up to take down the whole system

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Apr 2020 02:52:13 No.114353509 Report

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>>114353127
The Hornet's entire deal is that he's running a "sting" operation by pretending to be the biggest, baddest criminal in the city. That's how he muscles information out of people and then exposes them in the Daily Sentinel newspaper.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Apr 2020 02:54:07 No.114353555 Report

Quoted By: >>114353784

>>114345777
The Rogan movie would have been fine if he in any way aided in taking down the villain. He was just there. Being Rogan. While everybody else did the work. Kato was both the brains and the muscle.

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Anonymous Fri 17 Apr 2020 02:54:16 No.114353559 Report

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>The Green Hornet is getting another revival.
>The Nyctalope languishes in obscurity despite being, arguable, the first superhero in fiction and, not arguably, the first cyborg.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Apr 2020 03:05:21 No.114353784 Report

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>>114353555
That's how it was in the show, too. And it's not far off from being how it was in the radio broadcasts.

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Anonymous Fri 17 Apr 2020 03:06:47 No.114353819 Report

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Wouldn't this movie be problematic? The white guy taking credit for all the work the asian dude does?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Apr 2020 03:28:17 No.114354300 Report

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>>114345716
>What did you think of the Seth Rogen one?
Complete dogshit from beginning to end - a blatant bastardization of Green Hornet & Kato's characters.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Apr 2020 03:30:33 No.114354346 Report

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>>114353819
given that it's become a joke at this point they'd probably play it that way like in the new movie.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Apr 2020 04:18:59 No.114355302 Report

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>>114353559
I only know about this guy through Wold Newton articles.
Do you have any recommended reading for him?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Apr 2020 04:28:04 No.114355470 Report

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>>114349443
whats her name on the bottom right?

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Anonymous Fri 17 Apr 2020 05:11:47 No.114356084 Report

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>>114347682
>FemKato wearing a maid dress

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Apr 2020 05:16:47 No.114356151 Report

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>>114347194
>Stephen Chow was signed on to be Kato because he never knew The Green Hornet as anything but "The Kato Show" (how it was edited for Chinese audiences) AND thought he'd write/direct it. He showed up with his own script (which involved Kato creating a mind control device to pilot The Green Hornet like he was a robot) and was blown away when he learned he was a co-star to Rogen and the premise was completely different. Rogen didn't know Chow's history and thought he was cut-rate Jackie Chan which did not go over well with Chow.
lmao

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Apr 2020 05:18:31 No.114356171 Report

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>>114349443
Based casting

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