Kevin Smith Says His GREEN HORNET Animated Series is Very Inspired By SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE
A couple of months ago we learned that Kevin Smith would be developing a Green Hornet animated series. Smith has been hard at work shopping the series around and seems confident that it will get picked up. He also offered some additional details on the series.
He’s developing the show with WildBrain and it will target a family audience. The series will be set in contemporary times, “following the adventures of a reimagined Green Hornet and Kato – now the grown son of the original Green Hornet and the daughter of the original Kato – as they partner to battle crime in Century City. It will also feature the Green Hornet’s ultra-high-tech car, Black Beauty.”
During a recent interview with CB, Smith shared how things are going with shopping the series around, saying:
"Green Hornet, I just pitched three times last week and then once before I got on the plane, and then pitch again when I get home. It looks like it's going to have a home pretty damn soon, Smith teased. "It looks like it's going, it looks like somebody's going to grab it, which is nice. The art dec is f*cking gorgeous. Honestly, like, f*ck the story and f*ck the pitch. If you just sent somebody the art dec and they just looked at these 12 pictures, you'd be like, you know whether or not you want to make that show"
He went on to explain that the show is very much inspired by Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse and shares some additional details, saying:
"But it's so gorgeous, and it's kid-friendly. Like it's a family show. So it's for like the 8-12 or family group or something like that. And it's very inspired by Into the Spider-Verse, very much so. Deeply. And in fact, like we're not doing a score, we're doing needle drop in terms of soundtrack. So it's not going to be like, 'Oh, there's that Green Hornet score.' We're going to grab music, current music, kind of it give it a certain hipness to it. But also, it's very ... yeah, it takes a lot of cues from Into the Spider-Verse. And the look of it is not ... As you look at it, you'd be like, 'Oh, I can see it there too.' Yeah. I love that movie."
The Green Hornet originated as a radio series created by George W. Trendle in the 1930s, telling the story of Britt Reid, the wealthy owner and publisher of the fictional newspaper, The Daily Sentinel. By day, Reid oversees his paper’s reporting on crime and injustice, but by night he dons his green mask and ventures across the city with his sidekick Kato to battle criminals and villains head-on.
There was also a classic 1966 live-action TV series, which introduced future martial arts superstar Bruce Lee to North American audiences as Kato.
I’m excited to see what Smith is planning for this show! This could be really cool.