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Paramount Pictures and Chernin Entertainment have nabbed the rights to “The Green Hornet”.
According to Deadline, Gavin O’Connor will direct a film that will overhaul the image of Britt Reid into an edgy protagonist capable of being the catalyst for a new franchise.
Sean O’Keefe will write the script for the film which Paramount is no doubt hoping to turn into its own superhero franchise to rival the Marvel and DC universes.
“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.”
