I am not just Kato, I am..anybody now!
Stephen Chow, who originally was going to direct The Green Hornet and ended up just being Kato in the updated film version of the television show, has abandoned ship. What has been described by the studios as simply “mutual and amicable decision by both sides to move on”, it looks like there’s been some trouble with having Chow on the film to begin with.
The feature version of this hit late 1960s television series stars Seth Rogen as the debonair Britt Reid, Cameron Diaz as the female lead/most likely love interest and now nobody at all as his sidekick of sorts, Kato. Still unmoved for its July 2010 release date, and for initial filming to begin within September, Columbia Pictures will have to scramble to get themselves another badass martial artist actor of sorts to slide into the role. In this reporter’s opinion, it’s better for this to happen a couple of months before filming commences rather than a couple of weeks beforehand.
