Stephen Chow as Green Hornet’s Kato?
I have no idea on this one...
I have no clue about old school television shows, which mean my knowledge of The Green Hornet is zilch. So, after news last week that Seth Rogen was in talks to star and co-write the long gestating feature the same source (LA Times) reveals that Rogen wants Kung Fu Hustle star Stephen Chow for the role of Kato.
On top of being a television show The Green Hornet was also a comic. The stories of the television show followed the adventures of Britt Reid (Rogen), a bored playboy whose life is changed when he inherits his father’s crusading newspaper, The Daily Sentinel. He saves the life of Kato, a Japanese man with incredible technical and martial-arts skills, who becomes Britt’s closest ally — and transforms Britt’s car into the supercharged Black Beauty, which gives them an edge as they search for evidence to expose the city’s underworld in the newspaper. When Britt and Kato witness a brutal mob hit, Britt invents his secret identity — taking his name from his powerful car’s defective horn. A skilled fighter and expert marksman, the Green Hornet uses two special, non-lethal guns to subdue criminals: one fires a potent knock-out gas while the other produces the “Hornet’s Sting” — an electric shock.
The film is set up at Columbia Pictures, but their are no dates set for any kind of production just yet.
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