^ damn. 
First look at "The Green Hornet"
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It looks like present day to me as well...
Like The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet was originally created for radio in the 1930s. If Britt Reid is still the grandnephew of John Reid (aka the Lone Ranger), then the Lone Ranger would have been riding the Western plains circa 1960!
Looks craptastic to me. Right up there with Jonah Hex.
Present Day.
If nothing else the gag with the traffic light camera gives that away. I'm not aware of traffic light cameras in the 60's, those are new the last several years.
Could always make him his great-great grandnephew... or grandson. But really, there's no need and I doubt they'd ever bother bringing it up. Modern audiences would roll their eyes at the mention of the Lone Ranger.
Speaking of LR, I'm surprised they haven't done a remake of it. Then again, Westerns don't typically do too well these days unless they're a bleak Eastwood drama or an all out comedy. Actions movies with bad guys riding around on horses with masks on saving damsels and stopping bad guys from robbing trains doesn't seem to be "in" these days. They'd probably make his enemy some dude with a steam-powered robo-suit that shoots death rays or some Wild Wild West BS like that
As I understand it, the rights to the Lone Ranger and the Green Hornet are now held by separate entities, which could could make that problematic.
^^ Maybe he'll be the "Lone Stranger" then?
I Wonder if Cosby will adapt "The Brown Hornet" for the big screen.
I Wonder if Cosby will adapt "The Brown Hornet" for the big screen.
Or maybe they'll just have to be coy about it.
"You know my great-grand-uncle wore a mask. Kind of a loner, though . . . ."
Jerry Bruckheimer is supposed to be producing a LR remake with Johnny Depp as Tonto. No word on who will be the LR (I say Nathan Fillion but that's a pipe dream).
Something in the vein of the Banderas Zorro would be the way to do the Lone Ranger. But if they're looking to replicate the Pirates of the Carribean success (and the teaming of Bruckheimer and Depp suggests that they are) then I'd say you're right, it probably will be some sort of Wild Wild West BS.
On topic, am I the only one amused by the complaints that seem to go:
'I hate Seth Rogen. He's not funny. And they ought to make this movie serious, not a comedy.'
Surely if Rogen's not funny, you can only watch the movie as a serious one, not a comedy?
Good one. 
Was this movie ever going to be a period piece? Surely that's the whole point of doing a character like this on screen? A 21st-century Green Hornet...I dunno. It'd be like trying to reboot Gunsmoke in modern day New York or something. I don't see how it could work. You obviously can't do Westerns set in the present day, so how could they do this?
Was this movie ever going to be a period piece? Surely that's the whole point of doing a character like this on screen? A 21st-century Green Hornet...I dunno. It'd be like trying to reboot Gunsmoke in modern day New York or something. I don't see how it could work. You obviously can't do Westerns set in the present day, so how could they do this?
Except that, in its earlier incarnations, the Hornet always had a contemporary setting. The 1930's radio show was set in thirties. The 60's tv version was set in the 60's. Those episodes seem retro to us now, but when they first aired they were set in the present day. Unlike, say, the Lone Ranger or Zorro, The Green Hornet did not start out as a period piece. He was always a modern-day crimefighter.
So why shouldn't a 21st century Hornet movie take place in 2011?
Exactly. Like Batman and Superman, he's always been a contemporary guy. He's *related* to the Lone Ranger -- he's not a contemporary of the Lone Ranger.
Actually, it's funny how it works. We don't expect Superman or Batman to be period pieces because they've been running continuously since their inception. But characters like the Green Hornet or the Shadow, who disappear into pop-culture limbo for decades at time, often end up stuck in the era of their glory days--at least in the popular imagination.
Now I have seen people pine for a 30's Superman or a 40's Batman flick even if they don't necessarily expect it to happen.
True, but I don't really believe most people think of them as period characters the way they do, say, Doc Savage or the Phantom . . . to the extent that they have trouble imagining them in a modern setting.
Actually, that is director Stephen Chou (or 'Chow')...
Anywho, in regards to the movie itself, I may wait for the DVD; but, then again..the movie has yet to be released...so my mood may change...
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Saw the teaser. Wasn't impressed. I'll be passing on this one.