Without access to DC or Marvel
properties, Paramount Pictures is looking to bring an old radio serial
superhero into the modern world.
According to Deadline, The Accountant
and Warrior director Gavin O'Connor has teamed-up with producer Peter Chernin
to acquire the rights to The Green Hornet and re-adapt it into the big screen
in a more serious and less campy way.
"My intention is
to bring a gravitas to The Green Hornet that wipes away the camp and kitsch of
the previous iteration. I want to re-mythologize The Green Hornet in a
contemporary context, with an emphasis on story and character, while at the
same time, incorporating themes that speak to my heart. The comic book movie is
the genre of our time. How do we look at it differently? How do we create a
distinctive film experience that tells itself differently than other comic book
movies? How do we land comfortably at the divide between art and industry? How
do we go deeper, prompt more emotion? How do we put a beating heart into the
character that was never done before? These are my concerns…these are my
desires, my intentions, my fears, my goals."
Chronicling the crime
fighting adventures of Brit Reid and Kato, The Green Hornet first appearance
was in a radio serial of the 1930s, before being turned into a campy television
series starring Van Williams and Bruce Lee, several comics, and a 2011 Michel
Gondry movie starring Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz, and Christoph Waltz.
Sean O'Keefe, who recently turned in an adaptation of the
hit video game franchise Watch Dogs for Ubisoft, Sony, and New Regency, will
write the script for the film, which O'Connor
describes as "Batman upside down meets Bourne inside out by way of Chris
Kyle [American Sniper]. He’s the anti-Bruce Wayne. His struggle: Is he
a savior or a destroyer? Britt made money doing bad things, but moving forward
he’s making no money doing good things. He must realize his destiny as a
protector and force of justice by becoming the last thing he thought he’d ever
become: his father’s son. Which makes him a modern Hamlet. By uncovering his
past, and the truth of his father, Britt unlocks the future."
Gondry's 2011 movie was a critical
meh, and a box office letdown, failing to double on its $120 million production
budget.
Source - Deadline
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