Why The Green Hornet Reboot Will Be Very Different To Previous Versions
Leigh Whannell's upcoming The Green Hornet & Kato will probably be a very different take on the two characters. Horror movie scribe and director Leigh Whannell has boarded to direct The Green Hornet and Kato for Universal Pictures, with the film to be the latest modern take on the property since 2011's The Green Hornet with Seth Rogen and Jay Chou. While The Green Hornet franchise has gone through several iterations, its best-known version remains obvious.
That version is the '60s TV series The Green Hornet, led by Van Williams as Britt Reid a.k.a. the Green Hornet, and the legendary Bruce Lee as Kato, with the series being renamed The Kato Show in Hong Kong. Though The Green Hornet did not share the campy tone of the Batman TV series of the same era - the two shows even having a crossover at one point with Bruce Lee's Kato fighting Burt Ward's Robin - The Green Hornet and Kato could venture its two heroes into considerably darker and rougher territory. The main reason for that tone shift is the involvement of Leigh Whannell as director.
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Whannell famously got the Saw franchise rolling with James Wan, with the two later creating new horror movie series with Insidious and The Conjuring. Whannell's own career as a director has also been very horror-laden, including in his first action-heavy movie, Upgrade. These factors indicate that Whannell boarding The Green Hornet and Kato as director could lead to it undergoing a somewhat mature re-imagining, and this could all be a very smart choice.
The Green Hornet and Kato with a darker tone could work on several levels, principally in how the film could re-imagine Britt Reid and the martial arts master
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