Joe O'Connor

The Green Hornet -- Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) is a slacker by day, party animal by night... until he finds a serious career that?s seriously cool: crime-fighting action hero. As the Green Hornet, he teams up with gadget wiz and martial arts master Kato (Jay Chou) to take down LA's underworld. Also starring Cameron Diaz and Christoph Waltz.

Britt Reid (Seth Rogen), son and heir to Los Angeles' largest newspaper fortune, is a rich, spoiled playboy who has been happy to maintain a direction-less existence. When his father James Reid (Tom Wilkinson) dies, Britt meets an impressive and resourceful company employee, Kato (Jay Chou). They realize that they have the resources to do something worthwhile with their lives and finally step out of James Reid's shadow. Kato builds the ultimate weapon, The Black Beauty, an indestructible car with every weapon imaginable and Britt decides that in order to be heroes, they will pose as villains. With the help of Britt's new secretary, Lenore Case (Cameron Diaz), they learn that the chief criminal in the city is named Benjamin Chudnofsky (Christoph Waltz). He has united all the gangs under his power, and he quickly sees that the Green Hornet is a direct threat to the prosperous criminal underworld he controls.

A dissolute playboy takes over the family newspaper empire when his father dies - deciding he needs a purpose, he becomes a masked crime-fighter complete with a martial-arts expert sidekick: The Green Hornet and Kato!

A dissolute playboy takes over the family newspaper empire when his father dies - deciding he needs a purpose, he becomes a masked crime-fighter complete with a martial-arts expert sidekick: The Green Hornet and Kato!