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Film School Rejects featured one of the new clips from the upcoming martial arts movie, True Legend. Directed by Woo-ping Yuen, who was also the martial arts choreographer for The Matrix trilogy, Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2, and Jet Li's Fearless, True Legend stars Vincent Zhao, Jay Chou (Green Hornet), and Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon).
Watch the "Flying Daggers" clip here and visit the ReelzChannel True Legend page for more clips and news.
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Columbia Pictures' long-delayed The Green Hornet adaptation finally opens this week and fans will get the chance to decide for themselves whether Seth Rogen has what it takes to play a superhero or not. If you've been following news about the movie, then you know that Rogen, who also co-wrote The Green Hornet with Evan Goldberg (Superbad, Pineapple Express), did not set out to make a typical superhero movie, but rather to "subvert the genre." For example, instead of being the straight-laced, square-jawed Boy Scout that you see in most superhero movies, Rogen describes the title character as a "douchebag" who is "not a hero ... in any way, shape, or form", and his sidekick, Kato (Jay Chou), does most of the actual crimefighting.
The latest preview clip from The Green Hornet also provides another example of how superhero conventions are tossed out the window, with the hero and sidekick duking it out during a petty squabble. Could you imagine Batman and Robin solving their differences this way?
watch the new preview clip >> Posted 01.12.11 by BrentJS -
While he may not be familiar to American audiences yet, Taiwanese singer, actor, director and producer Jay Chou, who stars as Kato in director Michel Gondry's The Green Hornet adaptation, is already wildly popular in the Far East. Chou has sold millions of copies of his pop music albums, which are often described as a fusion of traditional Chinese musical styles with Western R&B and rock, even earning four World Music Awards for Best-Selling Artist in China, and is the literal poster-boy for tween crushes throughout Asia.
To help American audiences get better acquainted him, Columbia Pictures has released a (heavily edited) short interview with Chou in which he discusses working with writer, producer and title star Seth Rogen in The Green Hornet and how it feels to be stepping into the shoes of the man who made Kato famous, Bruce Lee.
watch the video interview with Jay "Kato" Chou >> Posted 01.09.11 by BrentJS -
With director Michel Gondry's The Green Hornet adaptation opening nationwide in just over a week's time, Columbia Pictures is trying to get potential moviegoers excited by releasing four new preview clips from the movie, which straddles the line between action and comedy. Featured for the first time in a movie clip is Edward Furlong, who plays Tupper, a mininon of crime kingpin Chudnofsky (Academy Award–winner Christoph Waltz), the Green Hornet's (Seth Rogen) main adversary. Also featured in one of the clips is an extended look at Gondry's latest contribution to action movie visual effects — Gondry helped develop the "bullet time" technique that made Keanu Reeves such a badass in The Matrix trilogy — "Kato Vision," which has only been glimpsed in previously released trailers and clips.
watch four new preview clips from The Green Hornet >> Posted 01.05.11 by BrentJS -
Even though Seth Rogen plays the title character in The Green Hornet, the recent focus of Columbia Pictures' promotional campaign for the movie has been on the Green Hornet's sidekick, Kato (Jay Chou). Even Cameron Diaz, who plays Lenore Case, a hip, savvy assistant to the crimefighting duo, has gotten a fair share of the spotlight recently. But, it doesn't seem to bother Rogen that he's playing second fiddle to his co-stars. In fact, in a recent interview with ET, Rogen heaped praise on Chou and Diaz.
what did rogen say about his co-stars? >> Posted 12.24.10 by BrentJS -
Sony has just released six new still images from director Michel Gondry's The Green Hornet adaptation and apparently the buzz word of the week is "gun." In three of the six images, someone is pointing a gun — specifically the Green Hornet (Seth Rogen), Kato (Jay Chou), and Chudnosky (Christoph Waltz) — while yet another still shows Kato holding two large guns and staring at several more, and a fifth has Chudnofsky pointing his finger like a gun. In addition, two behind-the-scenes photos from the set were also released and in one of them it looks like Gondry has a gun affixed to his camera.
more about The Green Hornet >> Posted 12.10.10 by BrentJS -
From Taiwan comes a slick, colorful new theatrical poster for director Michel Gondry's The Green Hornet adaptation that has the title hero (Seth Rogen) taking a back seat to his sidekick, Kato (Jay Chou), who is featured in the center of the image.
Is this merely a matter of Sony Pictures featuring an Asian actor on a poster for a movie being marketed in Asia? That's not an uncommon practice, as evidenced by Paramount's Korean movie poster for G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, which featured an unmasked Storm Shadow so that it could feature Korean star Byung-hun Lee.
It's more likely that Kato's central position is reflective of the elevated status of the character in Asia, where The Green Hornet TV show was commonly referred to as "The Kato Show" in Hong Kong during the '60s because of the popularity of Bruce Lee as Kato. It could also have something to do with how Kato is portrayed in the most recent trailer as more of a facilitator of Britt Reid's quest to become a superhero than as a sidekick.
read the synopsis of the movie >> Posted 11.27.10 by BrentJS -
The adaptation of The Green Hornet has been bumpy for Seth Rogen and company. Original director Stephen Chow (KungFu Hustle), left the director's chair during pre-production when Michel Gondry stepped in. By the time Jay Chou came on board to play Kato, Nicolas Cage, the movie's villain, decided to drop out over creative differences. Several delays, and a bomb scare later, Rogen joked that the movie wouldn't "never" get made, but they would still "promote it for the next 10 years."
Those troubled days seem long gone now, as Rogen explained to Moviefone. The actor and co-writer said that, once the hiccups ceased, they were able to make "the exact movie we wanted to make."
Rogen discusses Cage's departure and Chou as Kato >> Posted 07.22.10 by Ryan -
The first trailer for Michel Gondry's The Green Hornet didn't receive the most flattering responses from viewers, but the latest international trailer focuses more on the genesis of newspaper heir Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) and his transformation into the masked vigilante The Green Hornet. While this trailer may not stop some viewers from asking, "Seth Rogen as a superhero?" it does show what Gondry described as "an action movie with comedy versus a comedy with action." Watch the trailer below and let us know if you can see the formula working.
Posted 07.07.10 by Ryan -
Before the first trailer for director Michel Gondry's The Green Hornet, there was scant little to report about the movie beyond the casting setbacks, release delays and set troubles.
Since the trailer's release, Sony has been churning out promotional materials, and Gondry and title star, Seth Rogen, have come out in defense of the tone of the movie and the decision to go 3-D. Now, a new promo video from Splash has appeared online with behind-the-scenes footage.
View the clip and see the stills >> Posted 06.28.10 by BrentJS