The Green Hornet and Kato

[choptop]

Pratt as the Green Hornet, I can definitely role with.

What about the dude from the Raid, Iko Uwais, as Kato? I realize he is not Japanese, but in his original creation was Kato Japanese or just general Asian?

No more Chris Pratt he would just be star Hornet anyway.

[Gaastra]

How did green hornet turn goofy anyways? The batman crossover in the 60s? The comics were not comedies.

[godisawesome]

How did green hornet turn goofy anyways? The batman crossover in the 60s? The comics were not comedies.

I think what happened was that when they started preproduction on the Rogen movie, they wound up moving towards a semi-affectionate parody based off the fact that Kato is generally regarded as the more important pop-culture character while the rest of the franchise has become somewhat antiquated. Kevin Smith’s script for the film, which wound up being passed on but used for the comic, incorporated humor, but was still largely dramatic. Then the script apparently became an excuse for Nick Cage to ham it up as the Chudnovsky character, leaning even more into a comedic edge, and when he left and they brought Rogen in as the main character and Jay Chou as Kato, they just went all out for doing a dramatic story, but one where the Green Hornet himself was a bit of a fool who had to learn not to be.

I think it really does ultimately come down to the fact that Kato, in a bit of a relic of the old school pulp fiction’s uncritical use of some light white privilege, was the guy driving the cool car, while also being the more impressive fighter ever since Bruce Lee played the role in the 60’s. Green Hornets sidekick kicking more ass and doing more cool stuff than the Hornet himself just makes it easier to make fun of Hornet; that’s why Smith’s script dedicated a majority of its time to training the Green Hornet while acknowledging the Kato family were already bad assets.

[KabutoRyder]

No more Chris Pratt he would just be star Hornet anyway.

True, there is that possibility, and I haven't seen his Jurassic movies so I dunno how he carries himself in those, but i would hope that he would be game for not just carrying over his Star Lord persona in Green Hornet cosplay.