First Images & Trailer For The Green Hornet – Starring Seth Rogen & Christoph Waltz

The Green Hornet looks like a fun thrill ride of a film, a welcomed contrast to the trend of darkly profound and reboot crazed superhero film’s we’ve seen since Christopher Nolan brought the world Batman Begins. It’s good to get a little balance in a genre, don’t get it twisted I love myself some darkly profound films, just not all the time. Seeing Seth Rogen in a slightly more serious role than usual is intriguing me as well, he looks like he’s lost a tonne of weight to fight some crime as the Green Hornet, he completely looks the part. Director Michel Gondry’s quirky visual style always interests me. Hopefully some of the negatives rumours about the film are plain balderdash! Consider this as well, the film stars Christoph Waltz as the lead villain, more importantly to my manly sensibility’s, he’s sporting an epic beard….I’m in! Check out the synopsis below, The Green Hornet is in cinemas January 2011.

Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) is the son of LA’s most prominent and respected media magnate and perfectly happy to maintain a directionless existence on the party scene – until his father (Tom Wilkinson) mysteriously dies, leaving Britt his vast media empire.  Striking an unlikely friendship with one of his father’s more industrious and inventive employees, Kato (Jay Chou), they see their chance to do something meaningful for the first time in their lives: fight crime. But in order to do this, they decide to become criminals themselves – protecting the law by breaking it, Britt becomes the vigilante The Green Hornet as he and Kato hit the streets.

Using all his ingenuity and skill, Kato builds the ultimate in advanced retro weaponry, The Black Beauty, an indestructible car equal parts firepower and horsepower.  Rolling in a mobile fortress on wheels and striking the bad guys with Kato’s clever gadgets, The Green Hornet and Kato quickly start making a name for themselves, and with the help of Britt’s new secretary, Lenore Case (Cameron Diaz), they begin hunting down the man who controls LA’s gritty underworld: Benjamin Chudnofsky (Christoph Waltz).  But Chudnofsky has plans of his own:  to swat down The Green Hornet once and for all.