Sunday, September 21, 2008

Green Hornet Gets The Green light

Now this is awesome news, read about it at Comingsoon.net

Stephen Chow, one of Asia's most popular box-office draws as the award-winning star and director of such films as "Kung Fu Hustle", "CJ7", and "Shaolin Soccer", will direct Seth Rogen and star opposite him as Kato in Columbia Pictures' "The Green Hornet", set for release June 25, 2010, it was announced today by Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, presidents of Columbia Pictures.
Chow is an awesome director of action, "Kung Fu Hustle" was both funny and had great action sequences, "Shaolin Soccer" was more of the same. I don't know about casting Seth Rogen as the Hornet, he is good in comedies, but it remains to be seen if he can cut it as an action star. Chow will be playing the role of Kato, the Hornet's sidekick. This was the role that brought Bruce Lee to the attention of the American public back in the 60's, and Chow definitely has the chops to play a good Kato. This is definitely something that can turn into a series of films, my only concern, as I said earlier, is Rogen. To get a taste of what to possibly expect from Chow, rent the two films I mentioned, you won't be disappointed.

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