RR> Dark Horse has the rights to the Hornet???
DB> I don't know, but I seriously doubt it!  I 
DB> think when NOW COMICS went
DB> under, The Green Hornet sunk with the ship!  
 RR> So... Thats what happened..
 
Yep, I guess it is!  I hope another company will seek out to rights to 
the Character with the same NOW COMICS lineage.  At this moment I don't see 
that happening until another wave of classic characters make their marks 
again.  Perhap when one of the top five publishers decide to give another for 
The Phantom, Flash Gordon, Mandrake The Magicain, Doc Savage, The Shadow, 
Zorro, or The Lone Ranger, then perhaps we my be able to predict that The 
Green Hornet & Kato is right around the corner.  I always believed that with 
the addition of a Modern Day Green Hornet, other publishers would take an 
interest at giving the Green Guy a spin!
 
DB> I think Dark Horse is most likely to obtain the 
DB> rights to Green Hornet,
DB> especially after the movie is made (whenever 
DB> they get around to it!).
 RR> Movie?
 
The Green Hornet movie has been in the planning stages since 1989, due to the 
success of BATMAN.  The movie rights belong to Universal Pictures, but that 
could very well have been expired by now.  George Clooney was slated to play 
the lead role, but he had to pull out for the movie PEACE MAKER (no ties to 
the comic version), and Universal decided it was better to wait for Clooney 
to fit it into his scheduale later than to recast a No-Seller actor for the 
part.  If the Green Hornet movie does hit the big screen, I hope Universal 
gets a valuable director like James Camoron, and even if George Clooney is 
The Green Hornet, I hope they use another big draw like Leonardo DiCippi 
[spelling] as Johnny Dollar, and perhaps Jason Scott Lee as Kato.
 
DB> On the other hand, regardless of who obtains 
DB> the rights, I think that the
DB> Uncle to Nephew lineage that NOW COMICS 
DB> establish will get discarded, and
DB> that would be the terrible side of it all.
 RR> I do not see how..  It works, and people want to 
 RR> see what will happen..
 
True, but do you think that every company will maintain the same continuity 
that the previous publisher created?  or would you think 
that each company would won't to create their own continuity?
 
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