Really, though, it’s time for the genre to heroes from the past and develop heroes for the future with a grounding in the present.

Of course, I love Bill C.’s idea. To see the real core concept put into modern terms, to see someone like Michael Mann give it a true translation to our time… that is a really intriguing concept. I would love to see that, and I think even people who’ve never heard of the Green Hornet would line up at the movie theaters for that one.

But you get what I’m saying?

I don’t propose I’m an expert on the Green Hornet. Sorry if I came off as such. My point is sticking to the original concept. It’s allright to do a little house cleaning in my book. Update it slightly. But this should be a period piece rather than making it modern day. It just wouldn’t work.

Thanks for the link!

The Hornet became comics, two serials and of course, the TV show.

Go here to enjoy some of the old time radio programs:

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=Green%20Hornet%20AND%20collection%3Aradioprograms

You make it a good crime noir, and not in the sense of The Dark Knight. I’m talking crime noir in the black and white inner monologue sense and you will get a good movie out of it. Humor can be inserted without effort in terms of the dialogue. Quick-witted one liners. But once you move past the core concept it’s going to fail. Hollywood has yet to realize this. It’s so obvious and yet they don’t get it at all.

Get a good writer that knows what he’s doing on that screenplay and you’ll bring in the viewers and ultimately money. It’s not the property. It’s the poor decision making of the companies involved.

So why not have a great crime screenwriter take a crack at it? Michael Mann (Heat). Richard Price (The Wire, Clockers). Shawn Ryan (The Shield).

This doesn’t need to be brain surgery…You just need to know which end is which, and that’s been the problem.

Besides, do we need two “Green” superhero movies next year?

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Now, if we cannot get this property into better hands, then it is better off dead and buried.

I’ve made my feelings about this production very clear from the start – it should have been strangled with its own umbilical cord. The very fact that someone thought it was a good idea in the first place to have Seth Rogen portray The Hornet means some executive should have lost their job over that decision.

Good riddance.

Now someone who has a respect for the core thrust of the character and its “world” can bring this to the silver screen in the manner it deserves: as a serious high octane action-crime-thriller.

None of these were great films, hell acouple were just plain awful so I am not suprised this has happened…Trying to ressurect something for a demographic that is probably not even aware that a Green Hornet existed…Hard to market and even more difficult to make a film that could be understood in today’s world..