Shane Black Talks 'Doc Savage' Adaptation:

[TheDragonator]

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=35202

f we do "Doc Savage," the challenge is make it adult. I think that there are so few practitioners of action movies these days who are doing worthwhile stuff that it behooves me to try to weigh in and try to do the "Raiders Of The Lost Ark"-type stuff, to try to recapture the magic. When I stood in line for a summer movie when I was coming up at eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old, I stood in line for two and a half, three hours and you got the goods! They delivered! And if they didn't, you went outside and said, "Arg, 'Indiana Jones 2' wasn't that good, I stood in line for three hours!" Now, you don't know what you're getting!

There's just, I think, a decrease in the quality of these types of comic book action movies, and so it's almost irresistible, sometimes, to try and shore that up a little, or weigh in at least with my opinion about what's wrong and how it should be...I do want to do "Doc Savage." The script is still evolving and I'm kind of busy, but I want to get it right and I want to do it.

C. Lee will be very, very, very happy to hear this, I bet.

 

[cherokeesam]

I'd be very, very, very happy to see Doc Savage make it to the big screen, too.

 

[Secret Fawful]

It's about damn time.

 

[TheDragonator]

For some reason this thread isn't appearing in the section it's in.

 

[TwilightPro101]

Glad to hear, that there's finally another Doc Savage movie in the works.

 

[The Infernal]

I wish someone would show that sort of attitude seen in the first quoted paragraph when it came to a Masters of the Universe movie.

 

[Destiny]

Seems like another classic in the wrong hands

 

[TheDragonator]

Why? He said he wants to get the tone and attitude right.