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Long-Rumored Green Hornet Movie Gets Real?
The Green Hornet, seen here in the form of Jim Steranko’s cover for Now Comics’ Green Hornet #1, is set to hit the silver screen in June 2010.
The Wall Street Journal and multiple other sources have said that Hong Kong action star and director Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle) will direct the new Green Hornet movie and star as Kato, the Green Hornet’s partner.
For years rumors of a new incarnation of the venerable crime fighter have swirled around Hollywood, but Sony’s Columbia Pictures unit has actually given this version a target date for being in theaters: June 25, 2010.
Chow will join Seth Rogen, who will play newspaper publisher Britt Reid, who fights crime as the masked figure known as the Green Hornet. Unlike many of the other names who have been batted about, Rogen has been associated with the project for more than a year now.
In addition to appearing on radio, in comic books, and in movie serials, the Green Hornet and Kato appeared in a 1966-1967 TV series that introduced action star Bruce Lee (as Kato) to American audiences.
The Green Hornet was created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, who also created The Lone Ranger. Little observed these days, the Hornet was supposed to be the grand nephew of the western hero.
Neal Adams, Working to Return Artwork to Holocaust Survivor - Scoop - Where the Magic of Collecting Comes Alive! -
Neal Adams, Working to Return Artwork to Holocaust Survivor
As the comic industry continues to grow and thrive, members within the community find more and more ways to help the people around them. Earlier this week it was announced that legendary comic book artist Neal Adams is working to have artwork returned to Dina Babbit, a Holocaust survivor who was forced to paint while she was held in Auschwitz. Below are two letters, the first from J. David Spurlock of Vanguard Productions and the second from Adams, regarding ways to help Dina Babbit’s cause.
“Dear comics pros and fans:
450 comic book creators and cartoonists around the world have signed an extraordinary petition urging the Auschwitz State Museum, in Poland, to return to Dina Babbitt the seven portraits that she was forced to paint in the Auschwitz death camp in 1944. The petition, was spearheaded by our friend Joe Kubert, and The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, whose Arts & Letters Council, I am a member of.
Now, legendary comic book artist, Neal Adams and the Wyman Institute have launched a major new initiative on behalf of Mrs. Babbitt, an original comic strip about Mrs. Babbitt’s plight, drawn by Neal (and inked partly by Joe). Below is a special message from Neal concerning this important project, which we strongly endorse.
Sincerely,
J. David Spurlock
Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies Arts & Letters Council Vanguard Productions vanguardpub@att.net
www.vanguardproductions.net”“Dear friend:
By now I hope you have seen the recent feature story in the New York Times about the comic strip that I’ve drawn concerning Dina Babbitt, the Holocaust survivor who has been struggling to regain paintings she did in Auschwitz, paintings which are being held by the Auschwitz State Museum, in Poland.
If you haven’t seen the Times article, just follow this link: http://tinyurl.com/65vhbx
You can view all six pages of the strip by following the link in the “Multimedia” box in the left hand column of the Times site.
The reason I drew the strip, and the reason Joe Kubert collaborated with me on the inks, and Stan Lee wrote the Foreword, is simple: to put pressure on the Auschwitz Museum to return Dina’s paintings to her.
There are two things that you can do right now to help Dina in this battle.
First, send an email to the Museum director personally, expressing your outrage in your own words.
Mr. Piotr Cywinski, Director
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
Oswiecim, Poland
muzeum@auschwitz.org.plSecond, contribute a piece of artwork, either a new drawing or a previously published original, to the charity auction being organized by The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies. The Institute is leading the public campaign in support of Dina (and the Institute’s director, Dr. Rafael Medoff, collaborated with me on the strip). The funds they are raising will be used to intensify the Institute’s activities in support of Dina.
We have already received artwork from Jim Amash, Sal Amendola, Ralph Bakshi, David Baron, Jack and Carol Bender, Jon Bogdanove, John Cassady, Hy Eisman, Ron Ferdinand, Drew Geraci, Michael T. Gilbert, Guy Gilchrist, Jackson “Butch” Guice, Paul Gulacy, Lynn Johnston, Jim Keefe, Joe Kubert, James E. Lyle, Bill Morrison, Don Perlin, John Romita, Sr. and John Romita, Jr., Dave Simons, Walter Simonson, and Mike Vosburg. Art dealer Kasra Ghanbari has contributed a number of pieces, as has art collector Rob Stolzer.
That’s a good start. But we can do better.
Would you please send something nifty? All artwork should be sent to the Wyman Institute at 11738 Lovejoy Street, Silver Spring, Maryland 20902.
Sincerely,
Neal Adams
www.NealAdams.com”
