CBR: VIDEO: New "Green Hornet" Trailer Released

**CBR News** · 11-19-2010, 02:18 PM

Sony Pictures has released a new trailer for next year's super hero actioner,"The Green Hornet," starring Seth Rogen as the titular hero with Jay Chao in the role of his more competent sidekick Kato

Full article here.

**thwhtGuardian** · 11-19-2010, 03:10 PM

That looks pretty decent, maybe I'll go see this movie after all.

**Steve Broome** · 11-19-2010, 05:10 PM

Looks okay, but I still don't see any actual talent from Seth Rogan. He just seems like somebody who should be a third-tier cast member on Saturday Night live, known more for being camera conscious and laughing at his own skits than actually doing anything memorable.

**TheGoose** · 11-19-2010, 05:24 PM

It's looks pretty good, though it seems like the filmmakers who made this movie got mixed up and called it Green Hornet, instead of Kato. Most of the action scenes showed Kato kicking ass while the Green Hornet doing a lot of stupid stuff. Still, it looks alright.

**thwhtGuardian** · 11-19-2010, 05:30 PM

Originally Posted by TheGoose

It's looks pretty good, though it seems like the filmmakers who made this movie got mixed up and called it Green Hornet, instead of Kato. Most of the action scenes showed Kato kicking ass while the Green Hornet doing a lot of stupid stuff. Still, it looks alright.

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**thwhtGuardian** · 11-19-2010, 05:32 PM

Originally Posted by TheGoose

It's looks pretty good, though it seems like the filmmakers who made this movie got mixed up and called it Green Hornet, instead of Kato. Most of the action scenes showed Kato kicking ass while the Green Hornet doing a lot of stupid stuff. Still, it looks alright.

Wasn't that sort of always the case?

Well not doing stupid stuff but he always seemed to be second banana to Kato when it came to kicking ass.

**Skyrider** · 11-19-2010, 05:41 PM

I don't think this is in any way accurate to the comic...

...but it looks fun.

**Stressfactor** · 11-19-2010, 05:42 PM

Originally Posted by thwhtGuardian

Wasn't that sort of always the case?

Well not doing stupid stuff but he always seemed to be second banana to Kato when it came to kicking ass.

Only in the TV series. The serials and the radio show were vice-versa. But then again, the TV series had Bruce Lee and you don't go around NOT letting Bruce Lee kick ass.

Same thing here.

And it makes sense for this movie -- For the original radio show Britt just kind of got dropped in whole cloth. There was no real background for him. He was introduced as the publisher of the Daily Sentinal newspaper and an ass-kicker.

But that's not what they're going with here. Britt is a ne'er do well here -- someone who's probably never had to fight a day in his life. As it gets pointed out in the dialogue "Why do I need a gun?" "Because you have no fight training."

I used to do martial arts and it takes time and real dedication and practice to get really, really good at it. Fight choreographers and stuntmen make movie actors look really, really good BUT I like this approach better. I'm rather tired of going to action movies where the lead is a straight up ass kicker out of nowhere. It's gotten to the point where characters in movies who have no business being ass kickers suddenly pull out all of this martial arts mojo.

So Britt doesn't have it. I actually like that. He's got to learn how to be an ass kicker and it isn't going to happen overnight.

**Stressfactor** · 11-19-2010, 05:44 PM

Originally Posted by Skyrider

I don't think this is in any way accurate to the comic...

...but it looks fun.

Well, let's see, the comic wasn't all that accurate to the radio series and the radio series wasn't all that accurate to the serials from the 1940's and the serials weren't all that accurate to the 1960's TV show so I'd say it's par for the course.

That's the thing about the Hornet -- he's been made and re-made and re-re-made over the years and yet he endures.

**Tien Long** · 11-19-2010, 05:48 PM

Man, totally pumped to see this. Definitely geeked out seeing Jay Chao as Kato in action (ONE INCH PUNCH!!!!!) and, though I may be in the minority, I liked Seth Rogan's humor in the clip.

Here's hoping it will be playing here in China.

**The Last Day Dawns** · 11-19-2010, 06:02 PM

I enjoyed the first few issues of the Green Hornet relaunch, but I've never heard of him before that. I picked it up because he looked awesome in the suit.... To be honest, this was the first I heard of a Green Hornet movie, and when I read the blurb underneath that Seth Rogen was the lead, I nearly fell out of my chair. Apart from that, it looks... alright. Will see it when it comes out, but so far Seth Rogen seems like an odd choice (would of prefered a no-name, but I'm not really a Rogen fan).

**Stressfactor** · 11-19-2010, 06:05 PM

Originally Posted by The Last Day Dawns

I enjoyed the first few issues of the Green Hornet relaunch, but I've never heard of him before that. I picked it up because he looked awesome in the suit.... To be honest, this was the first I heard of a Green Hornet movie, and when I read the blurb underneath that Seth Rogen was the lead, I nearly fell out of my chair. Apart from that, it looks... alright. Will see it when it comes out, but so far Seth Rogen seems like an odd choice (would of prefered a no-name, but I'm not really a Rogen fan).

The early radio stuff is quite interesting. In the earliest stories the Green Hornet didn't set out to be mistaken as a bad guy and it frustrated him to no end that he was always getting accused of being a bad guy but then he decided to make it work for him.

It's kind of one of the twists which set GH apart from other early heroes. GH was one of the few, possibly the only one, who was out-and-out accused of being a villain by the authorities.

**toneloak** · 11-19-2010, 07:19 PM

Wow! I logged in just to point out that that tralier put a huge coolaid smile on my face, all throughout. This movie will be huge, I tell you, if people can see past their own bullshit. I don't know my opion doesn't really matter but I'll be there the second night(I work on weekday nights).