Possible Casting For The Green Hornet

Just a couple days ago we told you that Stephen Chow was going to direct and star in the upcoming The Green Hornet film. Seth Rogen who is busy working on the script will also star in the film. Well apparently Rogen has already offered up a role in the film to another actor, Michael Pena.

Pena wouldn't reveal what character he would portray but this is some interesting news for sure. Especially because Rogen hasn't even finished the script yet according to Pena. But he does have quite a bit of time with the release date being far into the future on June 25th, 2010.

IESB also managed to wrangle up a fantastic little wrap up of the history of Green Hornet:

"The Green Hornet" made his debut on January 31, 1936 on WXYZ Detroit, the creation of the station's George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, who also created the Lone Ranger.

The series, which ran until 1952 on the Mutual and NBC Blue networks, followed the adventures of Britt Reid, a bored playboy whose life is changed when he inherits his father's crusading newspaper, The Daily Sentinel. He saves the life of Kato, a Japanese man with incredible technical and martial-arts skills, who becomes Britt's closest ally -- and transforms Britt's car into the supercharged Black Beauty, which gives them an edge as they search for evidence to expose the city's underworld in the newspaper.

When Britt and Kato witness a brutal mob hit, Britt invents his secret identity -- taking his name from his powerful car's defective horn. A skilled fighter and expert marksman, the Green Hornet uses two special, non-lethal guns to subdue criminals: one fires a potent knock-out gas while the other produces the "Hornet's Sting" -- an electric shock.