Tag: The Green Hornet
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How Bruce Lee and This 1970s Western TV Show Are Connected
In the 1993 biopic Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, our titular hero and his then-girlfriend Linda catch a screening of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, which infamously features the non-Japanese Mickey Rooney playing a caricatured Japanese man. The theater erupts in laughter at this depiction – one the film’s director and Rooney himself would later regret –…
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Bruce Lee’s Kato Kicks Off Diamond Select Toys’ Green Hornet Line [Exclusive]
With all the brouhaha over the depiction of Bruce Lee in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” (and its recent novelization), getting lost in the conversation is the show that Lee himself was shooting amid the context of Quentin Tarantino’s film — namely, the classic superhero show “The Green Hornet.” To help memorialize the series that…
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Nicolas Cage Thinks James Franco Stole ‘Spring Breakers’ Character from His ‘Green Hornet’ Pitch
A new interview with Seth Rogen in GQ Magazine reveals a lot of things. For one, the actor clears up that rumor about Emma Watson storming off the set of “This Is the End,” saying that there were no hard feelings involved. For another, Rogen also said that Nicolas Cage thinks that James Franco might’ve…
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Universal & Amasia Entertainment Team Up For ‘The Green Hornet And Kato’ Feature
Universal Pictures and Amasia Entertainment are partnering on The Green Hornet and Kato, which is currently in feature development.Universal optioned the rights to the iconic characters, first created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker in 1936, after Amasia co-founders Michael Helfant and Bradley Gallo took control of the motion picture franchise rights in a…