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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.