Paramount Developing a New 'Green Hornet' Film from 'The Accountant' Director
Paramount Pictures and Chernin Entertainment have landed the rights to The Green Hornet, and have acquired Gavin O'Connor to direct. O'Connor is coming straight off of his work with Ben Affleck on The Accountant, and will collaborate with Sean O'Keefe on the script.
The project will reportedly differ drastically from the TV series and the Seth Rogen film. O'Connor said “I’ve been wanting to make this movie — and create this franchise — since I’ve wanted to make movies,” O’Connor said. “As a kid, when most of my friends were into Superman and Batman, there was only one superhero who held my interest — The Green Hornet.
"I always thought he was the baddest badass because he had no superpowers. The Green Hornet was a human superhero. And he didn’t wear a clown costume. And he was a criminal — in the eyes of the law — and in the eyes of the criminal world.
"So all this felt real to me. Imagine climbing to the top of the Himalayas, or Mount Everest, or K2 over and over again and no one ever knew? You can never tell anybody. That’s the life of Britt and Kato. What they do, they can never say. They don’t take credit for anything.”
"“For almost 20 years now I’ve been tracking the rights, watching from the sidelines as they were optioned by one studio or another,” he said. “When I discovered the rights were available again, I tracked them down, partnered with Peter Chernin and we set the movie up at Paramount. With the rights now in our loving hands, I’m beyond excited to bring The Green Hornet into the 21st century in a meaningful and relevant way; modernizing it and making it accessible to a whole new generation."
There's a lot of confidence to be gained from his obvious commitment to the project. Paramount may be onto a winner.
Source: Comicbook
