Shane Black's "Doc Savage"

[Moridin]

Black talks a little about Doc with Drew McWeeny
http://www.hitfix.com/motion-captur...how-he-plans-to-adapt-doc-savage#commentslink

Eh. A little on the nose.

It would be a more modern version of Doc. Could work, I guess.

Black seems set on a period setting.

 

[dude stannis]

Considering his films all draw from pulps and film noir of the 20's - 50's he's very fitting.

 

[Moridin]

Looks like Dwayne is in from the way he speaks on his instagram:

Finding our anchor. When I'm shooting on location I always need a space where I can work and keep building the enterprise. Here in Georgia this has been my space for months now. Keepin' it country. Every film, TV show, partnership and project we develop gets handled from here. When I feel good about it, it goes in the pile to the left that clearly reflects my OCD. When I'm still making adjustments, it stays on the pile on the right. All contracts that need signing remain in the middle. On the iPad I'm reading an outline for a cool movie I'll make in 2017 (with director Shane Black) and when I get tired and need a lil' pick me up, the shaker cup holds a special shot of energy - Elk piss. The more complicated our lives get, the more we need simple spaces like this to anchor us. In simplistic terms, find your work space and anchor to help you keep your **** together.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BFc0BsyIh3h/

 

[terry78]

Hemsworth honestly would have worked for me as he looks like the character, but hey.

 

[Marvel Spider]

Couldn't that be for Predator?

 

[Moridin]

Couldn't that be for Predator?

Narp. Black said he the oppertunity to make Predator came about because he's waiting for the Rock to have an opening in his schedule to do Doc. Black also saying they want to do it [Doc] next year while Predator is filming this Autumn.

Hemsworth honestly would have worked for me as he looks like the character, but hey.

I don't know anything about Doc, but yeah, I'd have liked to see Hemsworth work with Black, he needs a win outside Thor.

 

[Boom]

I'm really looking forward to this.

I need more pulp films in my life.

 

[C. Lee]

Hemsworth looks like the pulp covers of Doc....but the pulp covers didn't paint him as he was described in the books. Johnson looks more like the books actually describe him (with a few exceptions like his hair and tattoos....which can be changes for the movie). I personally would love for either of them to play him as it will put some star power and recognition into the movie.

 

[Fallen Angel]

How many movies does The Rock have in the pipeline now?

 

[hbenthow]

Hemsworth looks like the pulp covers of Doc....but the pulp covers didn't paint him as he was described in the books.

How so? I can't spot any significant difference between the books' description and the Baumhofer pulp covers.

Strong and impressive physique that looks almost sculpted like a statue, but with a proportional body shape (ie, not overly musclebound)? Check.

Bronze skin? Check.

Handsome face that women would swoon over? Check.

Dark bronze-colored hair slicked tightly back so that it looks like shiny bronze? Check. (Although it's mussed up from action in many of the paintings.)

Looks like the epitome of human perfection? Check.

Looks about mid-thirties, age-wise? Check.

Where's the difference?

 

[C. Lee]

How many movies does The Rock have in the pipeline now?

IMDB lists 10 as "announced" in "pre production" or "filming"......anything but the ones listed as "filming" are subject to not being made because of one reason or another.

 

[Moridin]

How many movies does The Rock have in the pipeline now?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0425005/
Central Intelligence coming out next month.
Baywatch & Fast 8 are currently in production for release next year.
Moana is also in production, but that's a voice role.
Jumanji remake is in pre-production for release summer 2017.

Journey to the Center of the Earth 4 announced for Nov 2018
Shazam announced for 2019.

+ the TV show Ballers, but I don't know how much he's on that.

And now it looks like both Black & Johnson want to film Doc Savage next year.

EDIT: Ninja'd!

 

[Fallen Angel]

IMDB lists 10 as "announced" in "pre production" or "filming"......anything but the ones listed as "filming" are subject to not being made because of one reason or another.

Yikes! Just looked up his IMDB page and the man will be busy from now till his retirement.

 

[C. Lee]

How so? I can't spot any significant difference between the books' description and the Baumhofer pulp covers.

Strong and impressive physique that looks almost sculpted like a statue, but with a proportional body shape (ie, not overly musclebound)? Check.

Bronze skin? Check.

Handsome face that women would swoon over? Check.

Dark bronze-colored hair slicked tightly back so that it looks like shiny bronze? Check. (Although it's mussed up from action in many of the paintings.)

Looks like the epitome of human perfection? Check.

Looks about mid-thirties, age-wise? Check.

Where's the difference?

The Baumhofer covers do not give him the dark "bronze" skin coloring as described. They also give him blonde hair when his hair is described as "darker" than his skin. The pulp covers give him hair of decent length that sometimes hangs down in his face...the books say it is so short it lays like a helmet on his head. The books describe him as perfectly muscled and that his physical appearance astounds people when they see him....the pulp covers show a decent looking guy but with no real muscle tone other than his arms (no six-pack, no big chest, etc).

 

[MrGrandCanyon]

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0425005/
Central Intelligence coming out next month.
Baywatch & Fast 8 are currently in production for release next year.
Moana is also in production, but that's a voice role.
Jumanji remake is in pre-production for release summer 2017.

Journey to the Center of the Earth 4 announced for Nov 2018
Shazam announced for 2019.

+ the TV show Ballers, but I don't know how much he's on that.

And now it looks like both Black & Johnson want to film Doc Savage next year.

EDIT: Ninja'd!

I believe he's also scheduled to shoot Rampage after he's finished on Fast 8.

 

[Moridin]

I wonder if he ever sleeps.....

 

[hbenthow]

The Baumhofer covers do not give him the dark "bronze" skin coloring as described.

How not? They give him a dark copperish bronze-colored skin.

They also give him blonde hair when his hair is described as "darker" than his skin.

Are you sure you aren't getting the pulp covers mixed up with the James Bama covers? His hair was clearly darker than his skin on the Walter Baumhofer covers from the pulps.

The pulp covers give him hair of decent length that sometimes hangs down in his face...the books say it is so short it lays like a helmet on his head.

The exact words used in "The Man of Bronze" are:

"The bronze of the hair was a little darker than the bronze of the features. The hair was straight, and lay down tightly as a metal skullcap. A genius at sculpture might have made it."

I suppose that "lay down tightly as a metal skullcap" is up for interpretation, but it sounds to me as if it's slicked down, Cary Grant style, not cut short (short hair tends to look much less shiny and metallic than slicked down longer hair). The pulp covers often show him with mussed up hair after a fight, but some show him with tightly slicked down hair. Look at the second image I posted above, and you'll see that other than one clump of hair that fell down during his fight, his hair has a slicked down "skullcap" look.

The books describe him as perfectly muscled and that his physical appearance astounds people when they see him....the pulp covers show a decent looking guy but with no real muscle tone other than his arms (no six-pack, no big chest, etc).

The pulp covers rarely show him completely shirtless, so I never noticed, but he always looked fairly impressive to me. (Remember that people in the 1930s weren't used to seeing men with Arnold Schwarzenegger-like physiques on a regular basis, so today's standards of "impressive" may be higher than those of the 1930s.)

 

[The Guard]

The hair hardly matters. If The Rock plays him, he's probably going to be bald.

 

[The Face]

Hemsworth honestly would have worked for me as he looks like the character, but hey.

They could both be in, Hemsworth as Doc and Dwayne as one of the Fab 5.

 

[The Face]

I'm really looking forward to this.

I need more pulp films in my life.

I hear you loud and clear, I have a real weakness for pulp films. Have you seen 'The Shadow'?

 

[Rowsdower!]

It's funny how the Rock was kind of a joke when he first got into acting. He showed up in the second Mummy movie for five minutes and I don't think he had any lines, but that prompted them to give him is own movie (The Scorpion King), which was a bit of dumb fun but wasn't really a starmaking film. He did the underrated action film The Rundown (which might have garnered more attention had they kept the original, vastly superior title Helldorado), and then appeared in a bunch of awful kids movies and it looked like his status as an actor would never truly raise. I figured he'd kind of drift away into obscurity like most wrestlers-turned-actors... but then Fast Five happened and suddenly he was the most sought-after man in Hollywood. I like the guy, although I'm getting a little tired of him at this point. I don't know the Doc Savage character very well so he could be a perfect fit for this, but I feel like a new movie starring the Rock is announced every day.

 

[aNarcHy2day]

Hemsworth looks accurate but, in my personal opinion, The Rock is the better actor of the two and undoubtedly much more fit to helm a potential blockbuster.

 

[Octoberist]

Hemsworth cannot draw. The Rock for the role is more intriguing..

 

[SCC]

Rock just made it official on instagram, he IS playing Doc Savage

http://www.instagram.com/p/BGCFduLqhD5/

 

[terry78]

This dude is making sure he gets all the overtime he can while he can, lol.