The Green Hornet: Golden Age Greats
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- Опубліковано 18 січ 2020
- The Green Hornet began as a radio show and went on to become one of the best known action heroes of the mid-20th century. This is a short documentary about the GREEN HORNET radio show and movie serial.
We need a serious Green Hornet movie and TV series now, and an official DVD release of the 1966 TV show.
Problem is when the Seth Rogen Green Hornet movie came out it damage the Green Hornet character name so I don't think we'll be seeing a film anytime soon but I cheer Kevin Smith has something in the works
if they could maybe update green hornet to a more modern adaptation to make it even better, for a movie series
Your right, Seth Rogen did damage The character, twisting him into a sitcom, remember, Seth, Green Hornet is a dark character, not comicial!!!
There a Green Hornet film coming, its called Green Hornet and Kato, and it's dark!
I've always wanted a movie bridging the Lone Ranger and the Green Hornet in one generational adventure. Nothing like that has been done onscreen, and it would be very cool if done respectfully.
WT Keeton
Was done a few years back by Dynamite Comics
As a live action--done well, as a mature drama--this would be amazing#
@@gmmeier321 Well written too.
I am not sure that could be done today. The two characters are now owned by different groups. Classic Media, LLC, doing business as DreamWorks Classics, now owns the right to the Lone Ranger. The Wrather corporation bought the rights in 1954. Green Hornet, Inc. owns The Green Hornet and leases the character out. This is why the TV show in the 60s never mentioned their relationship. The companies on occasions sue one another whenever there is mention of the familiar relationship between the two. Before 1954, the original TV series would mention the relationship to the Hornet's relative in a couple of episodes.
@@Diosprometheus The horrible Rogen movie actually mentions something about The Lone Ranger in the end credits but I saw nothing else in it pertaining to him. Dynamite had comic book rights to both for awhile and did an actual crossover!
The original green hornet serial is on UA-cam as an entire movie
It is also on tubi.,
I have all of them on VHS
@@technounionrepresentative4274 lucky
The Green Hornet has always appealed to me. I like the idea of crime fighters who don't have powers, but have the determination to build a gas gun. Plus, he and Kato had such good style.
YES.
I love the Green Hornet. My dad made me watch reruns of the TV show when I was a kid. Black Beauty is as iconic to me as the 60s Batmobile. Not to mention Hornet was a snappier dresser. I'm sad you didn't mention the 60s TV series, but happy you didn't mention the Seth Rogan movie.
Hi Logan, I just couldn't fit in the later stuff. I might try doing a 60s TV show video at some point. I think everyone-fans, casual viewers, newbies who never saw him before-all were disappointed with the movie.
Logan Cracraft same here that movie was Ridiculous and appalling Does any Directors have Respect for iconic
Seth Rogan movie:How to ruin a good character.😮😵😳🙄🤔
For what it's worth, I liked the Seth Rogen movie. It's not every superhero movie that shows a novice hero making mistakes--but by the end he proved he could do a capable job fighting crime.
Seth Rogen's film was waaay better than Armie Hammer's lone ranger😁
Loved the Green Hornet TV series with Van Williams and Bruce Lee. Now you got my interest in these serials which are on youtube as well, as I'm sure are the radio shows. It never occurred to me that Charlie Chan's number one son was Master Po, Cains teacher in Kung Fu. Always a pleasure to see your uploads. Thank you😊😊😊😄🐝
The two serials were among the best ever made so I recommend both of them!
Always fascinated by the Green Hornet and how he's generally grouped with comic and pulp heroes but started in radio and then got pulps and comics later.
The serials are really solid.
Never was able to track down many radio episodes.
His comics are hit or miss. The attempts to turn him into a Legacy character like the Phantom are interesting, but I think never giving him a rogues gallery hurt him.
Far as I can see he never appeared in a Pulp Magazine. During the TV Show there was a Whitman Hardcover and a paperback novel. No more prose versions till Moonstone did a few!
It's great to give some spotlight to these old and sometimes forgotten characters
Not forgotten just really missed..
Great character, definitely. Unfortunately one of my first introductions was watching that seth rogen movie with my dad, and yeah dad wasn't all that pleased with it to say the least (He grew up on the 60s show). We found the video of this serial and bought it to get a better image of the Green Hornet in our minds, and later finding episodes of the 60s show on cable a few years back was really great.
Learning about the history of Detroit was really cool, not to mention the inspirations behind the Green Hornet that I actually never knew before watching this video. That's the great thing about comics, when they have a connection to real world history, you not only get a fun adventure but you learn a few things at the same time.
I definitely think Green Hornet is still relevant, not as a farce like the 2012 movie did but done seriously. I once imagined the likes of Billy Zane and Jet Li playing Green Hornet and Kato, , but that might not be a good idea for all I know!!!
I'm a Green Hornet fan. I got into the character as a kid watching reruns. I also own a few comics of his. GH could be adapted to modern times if he's given the right amount of care and attention.
I loved the Now Comics Green Hornet run from the 90s. I haven’t read them in years, I need to dig them out and see if they still hold up.
The legacy line from 2016 honestly doesn't work for me. The writing is just dull.
Fantastic! I’ve been following the Hornet for nearly 50 years, and thought I knew everything. You taught me stuff I never knew. Congratulations and thank you.
I believe the green hornet would be perfect in today's environment. A failed media mogul, fighting the digital world of misinformation and cyber crimes. Only way things are done are old fashioned detective work and a touch of hacking panache.
I've always thought the Green Hornet was one of those characters who never reached his true potential. Sort of like Lee Falk's Phantom. They are both very interesting and endearing as heroes from by-gone era but neither of them was ever given the sort of treatment that could catapult them to evergreen status like Superman and Batman. I hope they can both be re-imagined and brought back to popularity at some point.
Different mediums ... comic books are an assembly-line and thus Superman and Batman never go away. Were the intellectual rights to the Green Hornet sold to a PUBLISHER, you'd see him more. The rights are owned by George W. Trendle's heirs, who are independently wealthy, and want so much money, few people are willing to risk it on the Hornet. The Green Hornet was better known than Batman throughout the 1940s ...
I love the Green Hornet. His radio shows were some of the first I ever listened to & started my love for the medium. I do think he is a product of his era & that will keep the general public but there will always be a special audience for that content.
That reminds me: I got an old Green Hornet comic book from Now Comics a few weeks ago: probably a good time to crack that bad boy open.
Same here
The Now books are pretty good.
The short lived 60’s series was one of my childhoods favorite television shows. I waited for years for a movie to come out just to be disappointed. I did not like the Seth Rogen adaptation. Maybe someday it will be done right.
When I was younger my aunt had this old tv that only had the a limited amount of channels one was a Chinese channel that had reruns of the kato show
That must have been a blast to watch!
... and reruns of "Sulu, Master of Navigation"
I like the Green Hornet. I first knew about him from the 1960s tv show; a kin to Adam West Batman tv show. I think GH can be revived for modern times but it seems every time someone does it they stick to close to what ties him to the 1930/40s era. Maybe if he were updated to resemble something more like Batman than it might stick.
Hi Hermit Comics! Thanks for watching! I'm with you. I think they have to go towards a Batman model for it to work today. They might be able to keep him the way he is if they set his story in the 1930s.
A wellcome surprise :-D
I was not expecting the story of Anne Nagel to turn so dark and depressing, poor girl. :'(
On an unrelated note, is The Green Hornet a public domain character or did DC get their hands on him? (I honestly don't know, but they sure seems to act like they own him).
Hi Acedia DeKay. The Green Hornet is NOT a public domain character. I believe he is owned by a separate entity that leases the character to publishers and film studios.
@@FizzFop1 A quick Google search revealed that the character is owned by Green Hornet Inc.
Green hornet is actually owned by the Dynamite comics, publishers of the boys and owners of the lone ranger as well.
I'm glad you're back with new videos I used to watch the reruns of The Green Hornet TV series from the 60s starring Van Williams and Bruce Lee I found it better than the original Batman TV series with Adam West it was more serious but the Green Hornet is an awesome character and I'm glad that comic book company Dynamite comics is drawing him.
Hi Draven! I do believe that some of those TV scripts from the Van Williams/Bruce Lee show were updates on some of the radio show scripts.
I definitely need to check that out there was an old serial my father used to show me something that he grew up with I believe it was called Rocket Man this was back in the 30s I wouldn't mind seeing something about that character.
Yes I'd love to see him return, whether it be as a period piece or as an update. I love him. Both in radio and TV form. Even listening to Flight of the Bumblebee gets me siced up and have the huge grin on my face do to the association.
I remember listening to these WXYZ shows in the parking lot of a Kroger grocery store with my dad while my mom shopped. As an adult, I picked up Now Comics Green Hornet #'s 1 thur 13. I'll pull them out and re-read them. Your comic/pulp/radio history is very enjoyable. I may have a Green Hornet radio show on vinyl. I'll have to listen to that too. Thanks so much for these video's; can't wait for the next one!
Great to see you back with another great video. I watched the Green Hornet back in the early '70s when I was a kid. Adam West's Batman was really big back then so they showed some episodes of the Green Hornet as well, probably hoping it'd take off like Batman had. Sadly it didn't, but I loved the show anyway. Then it disappeared, no more Green Hornet in the UK.
I also loved the Lone Ranger. They used to show it every Sunday afternoon on ITV and every morning during school holidays. I even went as far as to make my own Lone Ranger costume. I still have a soft spot for that show even now.
Thanks for the memories.
Once again an amazing production on the remarkably amazing and sad history about the actors who brought Green Hornet legend alive for all of us fans over the years. Without their contributions the Green Hornet would not be a household name today.
I was one of those people that knew of Green Hornet but always under the shadow of more popular heroes. Recently, I picked up Dynamite's Green Hornet by Matt Wagner, and now I get why the Hornet was/should be so popular.
A member of the press tackling injustice both on print and in the streets is something powerful and such a character couldn't make a better comeback than nowadays.
Nice Bryan, A number of people have mentioned Dynamite's run on GH. Sounds good.
There are people who have done modern comics with the character, actually using descendants of the original GH to bring him into the modern age. Those have been well done, so doing a new movie that is respectful of the original I think is doable.
Hi was about to listen to my weekly fix of the Green Hornet radio show, also found here on UA-cam. Well I found this instead. I first fell in love with the Green Hornet, watching the old 60's TV show. There have been some good comic book runs of him,never seem to last though?
One small mistake I noticed: around 5 minutes in it's mentioned that The Lone Ranger's brother's name is John Reid. John Reid is the Ranger's real name, Daniel Reid (Senior) was his brother, and Daniel Reid Junior was the father of Britt.
Awesome video as always my dude. I love the green hornet and with a little work I think awesome stories could be told with him in any time period. Speaking as a story teller myself I think I could come up with some interesting stories staring the hornet and Kato.
Can't wait to see what you do next.
Hi holozlaer 235! The Green Hornet is an interesting character--people either love him or they don't think of him at all. Sort of strange. He's a character I'm not sure translate well into the modern era.
Love your channel,some really unique topics about mostly forgotten charachters,videos take a while to come out but they're Always Worth it.
Great video. I grew up listening to Green Hornet reruns on NPR in the late 80s/early 90s. Loved him alongside The Shadow. The 90s was a weird time of trying to revive these ok’d hero’s on film but most of the flopped. It’s a shame.
Great - good to see you back. Always quality content.
Thanks for making this video I love the Green Hornet. Will you be doing the rest of what I call the Pulp Trinity, The Shadow and The Spirit. Also will you make a Lone Ranger full episode?
Also why did you take down this episode last night and reupload it?
Hi Mitchell! The video last night got a copyright strike. I had to correct some things before reloading it.
The Spirit is not a pulp character, but a comic strip/book character who appeared in the "Spirit Section", a sort of mini-comic in the newspapers.
Green Hornet is also not a pulp character, being a radio & movie serial character, later comic book character. He never appeared in the pulps, tho the Lone Ranger did, but after his fame from his radio show.
@@MichaelRBrown-lh6kn The Spirit and the Green Hornet released in the same era as The Shadow, plus these characters keep crossing over with each other that's why I call the the Pulp Trinity
@@Darkwingsamural pulp is not a time period, it refers to the pulp magazines. The Shadow is a product of the pulp magazines, the other two are not.
The Shadow and Green Hornet have only met thru the recent Dynamite comics and I'm not aware of the Spirit crossing over with any other character other then The Rocketeer.
Most pulp fans are pretty clear to not call characters who never appeared in the pulps as being "pulp".
I've seen some videos about what Dynamite Comics has done with the Green Hornet. They've had the title of Green Hornet pasted down through multiple generation to reach the contemporary era. The Current Green Hornet has a really cool mask.
I would argue characters like the Green Hornet are universal, especially when kids get over preconceptions about older stories.
I grew up in the 80s and early 90s loving Zorro, the Lone Ranger (we didn't get the Green Hornet shown much in the UK), Charlie Chan and a whole bunch of other "repeats" from the 1930s - 1970s, and I remember loving those as much if not more so than the contemporary programming. By 16 I was hooked on Peter Lorre's Mr Moto series.
I sat my kids down with It's A Wonderful Life at Christmas, they thought it was one of the best things they'd ever seen. They also like the original A-Team better than the more recent movie, prefer OG Transformers, and they're begging me to watch the Godfather and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, which were all made before I was born.
Good stories are good, it's getting them into the market that's the problem, and adapting them for a "modern audience" poisons the well for the original.
Wow, Keye Luke was around forever.
I knew some of the history of Keys Luke's career. He did some legendary things in pop culture!
One of my favorite comic characters. Learned of him as a kid around 6 going through my brother's comics. 30 years later and i almost have my collection completed
I could definitely see a modernized version of the Green Hornet being made that actually treats its source with respect.
Oh my God... I HATE UA-cam for removing my bell notification for your videos!
Because I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!!
I've been spending the past 3 Years messing with a Green Hornet story with my girlfriend because I'm, for lack of better word, OBSESSED with the character. I even had my Green Hornet use a full mask like in the original serial and have his voice change as a homage.
My introduction to the Green-clad vigilante was (like with many others) the Van Williams and Bruce Lee series from the 60's. It's a very important part of my childhood as it helped influence me as a person overall.
It's probably why I like Batman: The Animated Series so much. It's in the same vein as The Shadow and The Green Hornet in terms of style.
I love the character, it warms my heart to know I'm not alone in that sentiment. I do hope he can find his place in the modern age.
Hey Kamen Rider 1! I didn't really know the character until I did the research. I had seen the movie serial and the TV series with Bruce Lee...I had a couple of comics from the 90s, but I didn't know much about him. I found a whole new respect and appreciation for him making this video.
@@FizzFop1
When I was younger, I watched it for Bruce Lee. Because I thought Kato was cooler than Green Hornet.
But as I grew up my respect for the Hornet grew as well. I feel we need more of his type in fiction nowadays, a more methodical and mysterious kind of hero.
We just need to put him in the right context. Hence my writing him to fit the modern age is quite challenging. I don't want to go too much into politics and I want to be respectful of the character's legacy.
My Grand mother turn me on to the Green Hornet! Back in the late '50's! Bought my first Big Little Book "The Green Hornet Strikes" in 1968! 😅
Wish they would reprint a lot of those Big Little Books. Even the BLB's of the 60's were often good like the Tarzan one (swear it had Russ Manning artwork in it, maybe based on the newspaper strip?) also liked the Man From Uncle and Fantastic Four (from the 1960's cartoon I'm waiting to come out on DVD-didn't like the two later series at all!) of the newer run!
@@robertmallory1877 have the fantastic four one! I think I’ve paid $1.50 for it!!
@@frankmartinez4856 What a bargain!
I've recently viewed your piece on the Green Hornet and it was outstanding! I consider myself pretty knowledgeable on the subject in most all of it's many media forms but your production enlightened me more than a few times. Just wanted to say thanks and let you know how much I enjoy the content on your channel. Keep up the great work!!
Awesome David! Thanks!
Nice video! I'd love to hear you talk about the 1967 series as well. One of my favorite shows! I still go back and watch it every year or so. I hope someone brings this character back from obscurity.
Are you saying OG Kato is Brak! :0 that's awesome! He was grandpa Brak! Now I gotta time travel to have 90's Brak and Grandpa Brak meet.
Oh yeah Buckley was a pinko lefty and so he got killed for being all about exposing the mob in a town that well...has a very close relationship with the Illinois mob.
In short he was a victim of his surroundings but moving on, Hey! How about that green hornet huh! Truly underrated! And far better at times than some copies like the DC sandman with the gas mask and that weird Rorschach and his often over looked yet superior Question counterpart. In my opinion it was Hornet and the Shadow! And their both great characters that crossed over a while back in a dynamite comic if I recall, too bad these characters if picked up would simply be hated for being rip offs or badly written by a public that simply put doesn't get them.
Hi Player Juan! The Green Hornet was the prototype for all those heroes. I think you might have nailed it...most people might think he's the ripoff character anr/or won't understand him.
Great video, as always! I'm a huge fan of the Green Hornet.
Excited to see ya back
Great to see you back! Love your videos.
Yessss been waiting for this!!! Amazing 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Great video I didn't know that there was a film series in the 30 before in order for the green hornet to be in this era of fan's it has to have a successful comic book series so it could have a following in to the movies
good to see you back. Love your videos!
This was great.
Fantastic video!
I wanted to say thank you, I enjoy watching your excellent content!
another great vid. always informative. love the format.
Your material is wonderful. Thanks for the new episode
This was great to watch. Been a fan of the Hornet for many years. Thanks for the post.
Another good video, keep up the good work.
YT recommended this video to me. After watching it, I gave it a Thumb Up and Subscribed. Thank you to all involved in making it. Great editing, research, writing and naration.
Excellent video, once again! Thank you so much for the history lesson. Though familiar with the Green Hornet through my love of Bruce Lee, I only learned this morning via your video, that it all started in Detroit...and I am a Michigander who lives just an hour and a half from the city limits. Well done! Thanks again and keep them coming.
An excellent presentation.
Loved the Hornet serials. So much so I got the posters for them.
I love the Green Hornet! I grew up with a dad who watched the 60s show and I became a fan. His gimmick of fighting crime by masquerading as a criminal is awesome and so unique. He's one of my favorite non super heroes, second only to Zorro and I love alot of the books Dynamite Entertainment has done. Green Hornet: Year 1, MASKS, Shadow/Green Hornet: Dark Nights and there was even a sequel to the old crossover with Batman titled Batman 66 meets the Green Hornet and loved it! I love this character and I think Kato is honestly my favorite sidekick character too. They're both such an awesome pair to this day and it is a shame how bery niche they are compared to Batman and Spider-Man.
Well done to everyone for a great Job on the video I am Totally hooked on it
Loved the Green Hornet ❤❤💯👍👍
Another great video! Maybe one of your best for the amount or research that went into it. So many fascinating tidbits of infos! Awsome job!
Hi Rangersly, Glad you enjoyed it. There's a ton of stuff I didn't mention. I barely covered the Lone Ranger. I didn't really cover the actors who played the Green Hornet on radio. There's more stories there.
Excellent work! I really enjoyed both Hornet serials.
Keep up the good work
I first came to know of The Green Hornet through my Dad who listened to the radio serials as a child and watched the 60s show in adulthood. I came to watch the TV series not too long ago and took a liking to the character. I was hoping for the best when the Seth Rogan abomination came along but as we all know.... it sucked hard!!
I think there is potential for The Green Hornet to find a place in today's world. There are plenty of criminal gangs out there involved with drug trafficking, human trafficking, mega corporations that threaten smaller independent competitors, local rackets and dishonest politicians (who may have a hand in any of them). After all, he's supposed to be a criminal that takes over (and eventually dismantles) these operations and I'd like to think that Britt Reid would be on the boards of organizations that would help the victims of these criminals like battered women shelters, drug rehab centers, etc.
Interesting concept MegaMagicdog!
watched both movie serials recently. both quit good and well done. I like that both have well written plots. one gang of racketeers that pulls off various rackets. its thinly stated in the second that the racketeers are working with Axis powers.
And also great job
Thank you. I think the green hornet can be relevant alongside other characters of that era.
60's kid here 🙂. The producers of 66 Batman tried to bring the GH into then modern times, but the show only lasted 1 season, which was a great shame. The style was quite true to the old radio shows of the 30's and 40's, but it seems like by the 60's he no longer connected with a wide audience. Adults had "outgrown" him and kids weren't wowed by the real-world-style villains he faced. The show lacked the tongue-in-cheek campiness of Batman, and the crossover and cameos they did only made it clear that the universes didn't mesh very well.
I was a die-hard Batman fan at the time. Personally I only got into The Green Hornet through re-runs, long after the show had been cancelled. Being older then, I was better able to appreciate it, and it got me interested in discovering the old radio shows and film serials for myself.
Kato was always cool though! I wish he'd had more dialogue!
Great as usual, but I'm surprised you didn't mention the TV series or the recent movie.
Amen to that , brother!
Hi Chris, I could have easily made an hour long video. Some things just had to go...plus I didn't want to sit through the movie again...I saw it at the theater and have no desire to re-live that experience. lol
didn't i see this up for 3.5 seconds this last night/this morning? LOL
and thanks for another great vid.
Hi Kardboard Kenny! You sure did...last night was a test run of sorts. I was afraid there might be issues and there was a copyright claim against it...so I took out the questionable material and here we are!
@@FizzFop1 a copyright claim? lord have mercy on the YT creator.
I think a contemporary Green Hornet movie would best work in one of two ways.
1) Keep it in the Thirties/Forties setting (or the Sixties at the latest). I don't think anyone would mind a good period piece. Heck, in that case you could just adapt Dynamite's GREEN HORNET: YEAR ONE comic.
2) Set it in a retro/dieselpunk version of the modern day, sort of like the Time Burton BATMAN film.That way you can mix the old-fashioned and the modern in a natural way.
Hi Omni Viewer! Thanks for watching! I like those ideas!
Keep up the great work
Thank You Will-i-am Golden!
Star Wars would have been so much better if Keye Luke had gotten the Obi-Wan role. Worth noting that he got into acting in the first place through doing artwork for various studios, including a mural you can see in the casino in Shanghai Gesture, the plot of which has got to be one of the most unsettling tragedies of its era - and which you can see here on UA-cam.
I have just discovered your videos, and all of the ones I'd watched have been uniformly excellent. How about making one about star of old-time radio, pulp magazines, comics and movies, the Shadow?
I love the Green Hornet
As a kid, my only exposure to the Green Hornet was the crossover of the 1960's series with the Batman TV show. I was very excited when FX started airing episodes of the 60's series. To the best of my knowledge that was the first time the show had been broadcast since the 60's. I enjoyed it quite a bit and wish the show had lasted longer. Kato was Bruce Frickin Lee!!! I was not a huge fan of the Seth Rogan film, but I was excited to see the character revived. I really wish they would try a more serious revival. I promise to watch. Speaking of 1930's characters little known today, I'd like to see a new Doc Savage movie. I heard the Rock might be interested. He would be fantastic. Maybe after he finishes Black Adam, and Doc Savage, he can be the Green Hornet too...
Hi Michael! The Rock as Doc Savage? Count me in!
I think he can fit in. A big part of him was his use of the newspaper. That deals in I formation and the masses. Today is an age of information to and from the masses. I think there is a place for him.
"WYXIE Wonderland" by Dick Osgood details the origins of The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet. A happy outcome for George W. Trendle ... doesn't end so well for Fran Striker, the writer who actually made these characters popular. Think Bob Kane and Bill Finger.
There is a great book to learn more about WXYZ, the Detroit radio station that created the Lone Ranger, Green Hornet, and Sgt Preston of the Yukon: "Wyxie Wonderland" by Dick Osgood, and recently reprinted by Bold Venture Press.
Sadly, the rights of the Lone Ranger and Green Hornet are owned by different groups, so the connection between the characters is ignored/downplayed.
Hi Michael! It's sad that we will never see a tie-in between the two.
@@FizzFop1 Agree.
2 different actors played The Green Hornet but Keye Luke was always Kato. And unlike the Batman serials with no Batmobile, Black Beauty was there.
thank-you.
You're welcome Skot Nealey!
Glad you're back, man! Hope you're doing well!
Hi VIncent! Thanks for your concern. I'm getting on. My recovery from cancer treatment/surgery is going well.
@@FizzFop1 Excellent! Sending good vibes!
I love the Green Hornet. Always have even those old Now and Dynamite runs - wish the live action film had done better. As I really enjoyed that one.
Those CGI people were kinda unsettling but what a fascinating video!!!
Yeah, I'm really hit and miss with the CGI people.
FizzFop1 Hahaha, thats okay!!
Interesting, always loved learning the backstories of iconic characters. As for the question of if the Green Hornet could still work in a modern setting I think so, but it would have to involve some changes, Keto being a 'valet' definitely wouldn't work in today's world for example, but still I think it could work. Unfortunately the Seth Rogan film version probably killed that dream for a long sadly :=(
Anyone who's a fan of Dynamite comics knows how wildly they fluctuate in terms of quality, but pretty much everything they put out that's Green Hornet-related is excellent.
There's plenty of comic book characters that almost no writer knows what to do with. Green Hornet is the opposite of that. Everyone who's touched the character on Dynamite's watch, from Mark Waid to Amy Chu, has turned in some of the best work of their careers. Waid's GH run was probably the last good thing he's ever written.
Hi NucleaRaptor! Thanks for watching! A couple of people in the comments have said similar things about Waid's GH. Next time I'm at my lcs, I think I'm going to see if any Dynamite's GH is in the discount bins.
@@FizzFop1 Year One by Matt Wagner is outstanding, just like everything else he's done for Dynamite. There was also a excellent Kato spin-off by Jai Nitz that goes into some dark shit, especially in the second book. I'd tentatively recommend the modern day take by Kevin Smith, but that would depend on your tolerance for Kevin Smith. Jonathan Lau's artwork is a major plus, though.
The fact that the Green Hornet is the "product of a bygone era" does not affect his future viability. What is Superman, for example, but such a "relic"? Now Comics rebuilt the legend of the Green Hornet in such a way that the character should have skyrocketed in popularity. I believe that, should some concern reunite the intellectual property rights for the Hornet and his "ancestor", the Lone Ranger, so that the characters could officially share their common lineage, that sharing could become the springboard for that boost in popularity. WT Keeton has the right idea; I simply believe that such a storyline could work regardless of the medium, so that anything -- comics, TV, etc. -- would be very viable.
I would love to see a Batman Begins style GH but I think the 2011 Seth Rogen film did some damage, just like the 08 Spirit. Shame.
Hi Frog's Prop Shop! Thanks for watching! Yeah, I think that movie damaged the Green Hornet. Seth Rogen was a bad casting choice. I think his comic timing and style was wrong for the part. I was dreading to go see it.
@Coy Ladner The writing just plain terrible in both. I'm amazed how much time and money goes into a project that doesn't have a good script from the start.
@@FizzFop1 The buddy comedy formula is perfect for this franchise because the hero-sidekick dynamic is absurd and Kato's contributions are ridiculously underrated.
But Rogen and Goldberg rely heavily on improvisation, which is going to be impossible when you cast a lead actor who barely speaks English (Jay Chou, who did a fine job under the circumstances). Christoph Waltz couldn't even do improvisation and he's won two Oscars.
Both of which I and many others Walked out on.
It’s a disgrace how they damaged the GH legacy with Seth Rogan. The casting director should hang his head in shame. Seth Rogan isn’t an actor’s boot lace
WXYZ was our local station back in the 50's. I recall listening to the Lone Ranger on radio when I was a wee tyke/Brace Beemer was a well-known name among us as we grew up.
That's awesome.
Anne Nagel did not marry a doctor after her first husband killed himself. She married An Air Force Colonel, and while married to him she had an appendectomy. She was never married to that doctor. And an appendectomy is hardly unnecessary surgery.
So tragic what happened to her. I've seen her in a few things in addition to the Green Hornet serials and loved her in everything she was in!
I actually like it when he dons the mask and it's radio actor Al Hodge voicing the character. Reminds me of the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon, how the voice would change when he donned the mask.
The Purple Gang was also the whole rhythm section.
I enjoyed this history of a great character. I appreciate all the work you put into these videos in order to bring back such great heroes. I want to apologize for overreacting a couple of months back on your pre-Superman heroes video. I was in a difficult place, between back pain and job stress, and I wasn't thinking too logically. I have now subscribed, and you can count on my views. By the way, could you do one on Lee Falk's Phantom?
Hi James! No worries! Thanks for being there. Sorry to hear about your back pain and stress. I've been through all that myself. I had a partially torn back muscle that nearly destroyed my life. Being a partial tear, it would never heal. I went for ten years before doing something...I took up yoga and I got a tens-electo shock machine. Changed my life. I dropped a few pounds which also help. Currently, I do acupuncture. I haven't felt this good since my twenties. As for stress, the last two years have been crazy (my Mom passed away, new stress filled work promotion, diagnosed with cancer, money issues)-I've been through a wringer! I learned that sleep, meditation, learning how to relax, and getting toxic people/situations out of my life helps greatly...in addition, find little tiny things that make you happy. Sorry to ramble on, I feel bad for anyone who has to go through back pain and stress. They can wreck your life-and you have to be pro-active to overcome it.
I appreciate the reply, and look forward to your next hero. Thanks!
Both serial episodic movies are on 1 DVD available on Amazon. I've got it and love it. 💝😉
This was excellent! I have the Green Hornet serial on DVD, and have been a fan of this great hero since the 1960’s series starring Van Williams and a legend named Bruce Lee. I’m also a devoted fan of the Lone Ranger and Tonto. I’m glad that I’ve subscribed!