HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — In the 3D action-comedy The Green Hornet, 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. To get close to the criminals, they come up with the perfect cover: they’ll pose as 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, 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.
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Born in the 1930s as a radio serial, The Green Hornet garnered many fans in all media – not only on radio, but in film serials, comic books, and, for one season in the 1960s, a television series that catapulted Bruce Lee to stardom in the U.S. With the new film, The Green Hornet makes his feature film debut and introduces the masked avenger to a new generation of fans.
"As a kid, I really, really loved The Green Hornet," says producer Neal H. Moritz. "I loved the fact that Bruce Lee played Kato and I loved Van Williams as Britt Reid. They were wish fulfillment shows for me. I had always been jealous that somebody else was going to get to make The Green Hornet into a movie."
