Under the original plan, we would have been getting our chance to see a slimmed-down, crime-fighting Seth Rogen play the superhero Green Hornet right about now-- Sony had picked a July 7, 2010 release date for the film before eventually pushing it back to a January 14, 2011 release date and converting it to 3D. Now the movie has an unmistakable air of disaster surrounding it, despite the fact that Michel Gondry is directing and that we can at least be guaranteed that it won't be a standard-issue superhero origin story (like, uh, everything Marvel has planned at the moment).

With a trailer on its way tonight, Yahoo has finally posted the first two official images from The Green Hornet (click on the ones you see below for larger versions). Both feature Rogen's Green Hornet and his sidekick Kato (Jay Chou) engaged in some kind of adventure, and neither give us the slightest clue of what the movie might be about. Still, both actors look pretty good in their costumes, and that's pretty much all you can ask for photos that give us so little information to go with. The trailer debuts on Jimmy Kimmel Live! tonight, and in the meantime, interpret these to your heart's content.