Shane Black to Pen Doc Savage Movie for Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman
Well this sounds promising. It seems that 1930s pulp hero Doc Savage is in the process of getting a brand new feature film, one that’s being produced by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman of Transformers/Star Trek/Fringe fame. No word on whether or not their buddy J.J. Abrams may have his hand in it as well, but apparently the screenwriter will be none other than Lethal Weapon scripter Shane Black. The scoop comes courtesy of Harry Knowles over at Ain’t It Cool News, who ran into Black at a friend’s birthday party and persuaded him to reveal what he was currently working on.
Doc Savage was a popular character in American pulp magazines in the ’30s and ’40s, who later resurfaced in paperback novels from the ’60s through to the 1990s. He was a jack of all trades, an adventurer with top physical and mental capabilities who took on all kinds of villains, both fantastical and otherwise, with the help of some cool gadgets. A movie was made back in 1975 called Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze, but was not highly regarded critically or commercially. According to Black, this new version will maintain the period setting, and will probably also include Doc Savage’s teammates, The Fabulous Five. It’s possible that this is a bit of a response to Disney’s John Carter of Mars film and Seth Rogen’s The Green Hornet, but either way I’m in. What do you think about a Doc Savage flick? Who should direct? Check out a clip from the 1975 film after the jump.
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I vote for Rian Johnson
Posted by Mike on October 26th, 2009Absolutely brilliant!! can’t wait, this should be top-notch.
Doc has always been the ‘project waiting to happen’ and in good hands he will rock the screen.
Just a question as to who will portray him but i heard the suggestion of Daniel Craig the other day which I quite like. On the ‘Famous Five’ I reckon Ron Perlman as Monk and David Hyde Pierce as Long Tom, Clancey Brown as Renny, Jeff Goldblum as Johnny and Timothy Dalton as Ham. Just my thoughts of course. Oh, and they could get Pat Savage Doc’s cousin in the film as well….and maybe John Sunlight
Posted by andy franks on October 28th, 2009Leave a Reply