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‘The Green Hornet’ Creates A Buzz At The Box Office Today

Posted January 14th, 2011 by Dirk Van Tilborg

The new adventure comedy, ‘The Green Hornet’, will debut in theaters
Friday, January 14, 2011.

Directed by eclectic French director Michel Gondry, the film stars Seth Rogan (‘Pineapple Express’, ‘Superbad’), Jay Chou (‘Curse of the Golden Flower’, ‘True Legend’) and Cameron Diaz (‘The Box’, ‘Knight and Day’).

‘The Green Hornet’ debuted in 1936 on Detroit radio station WXYZ and was later adapted to comic books and a 1966 television series starring superstar martial artist, Bruce Lee.

Playboy Britt Reid (Seth Rogan) becomes the new publisher of Los Angeles’ “The Daily Sentinel” after the sudden death of his father. Britt’s party life is about to change when he and his driver and kung fu expert, Kato (Jay Chou), stop a robbery. With the help of Kato, Britt starts a new career of fighting crime as the masked superhero ‘The Green Hornet’.

Dirk Van Tilborg

After reading Jack Kirby’s Forever People and New Gods comic books and watching 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dirk was assimilated during first grade recess into the collective known as Science Fiction. Fueled by the visions of mad scientists such as Philip K. Dick and Frank Herbert, he has quietly searched the galaxy for the next BladeRunner, Brazil and Dark City. Born in San Francisco and currently enjoying a steampunk version of Ft. Lauderdale, when not grokking Science Fiction he spends his time with family and friends and just maybe trying to enter the dreams of disingenuous politicians.