How did the Green Hornet project come about?
Neal: I’m part of that die-hard Green Hornet fan community. We’re as passionate about the Hornet as Batman fanboys are over the Dark Knight. I grew up watching the show in syndication, listening to the radio shows (I know ’em all fairly well), and have a few of the film shorts from the ’40s. When I say “grew up watching,” that means starting to watch them when I was a kid and never stopping — I’ll drop whatever I’m doing to catch it on TV even now. I’ve also been listening to the old radio shows since I was a kid, and I’m a big comic book nerd. I recognize the campy elements that are in the [TV] show, but fans like myself who’ve grown up with the show look past that, and we see the potential for the show, for what it was meant to be. It’s just a really cool premise, I just love the idea of a guy who is a little different from most superhero stories, in that superheroes are by and large vigilantes, and the Hornet is a vigilante too but he’s a different kind because people don’t know hi
