Will The Green Hornet be any good? That’s the question many are asking after its release was delayed and there were reports of reshoots and Sony not being happy with the footage they’d seen (of course the studio officially says they’re delighted). The trailers we’ve seen so far have been okay, even if there’s been little to get anyone really excited. Now a new rpomo has turned up, which again makes the movie look alright and includes a little more plot, but still isn’t exactly amazing – it does however seem to play a lot on the homoerotic undertones of a superhero having a partner.
The Green Hornet, starring Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz and Christoph Waltz, is about Britt Reid (Rogen), the son of LA’s most prominent and respected media magnate, who’s 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. The film is due out January 14th, 2011.