The Official Doc Savage Thread

[C. Lee]

Hey that shot at the beginning was awesome

I'm surprised the teeth could sparkle with so much cheese on it.

 

[Hunter Rider]

I'm surprised the teeth could sparkle with so much cheese on it.

Blasphemy...Man did Doc have a tough fight with those horrible CGI snakes,god bless Ron Eli's effortt:

 

[C. Lee]

Blasphemy...Man did Doc have a tough fight with those horrible CGI snakes,god bless Ron Eli's effortt:

They weren't badly done for 1975.......and they hissed.t:

 

[Showtime]

It should give you some pointers on what NOT to do, such as....

NO...
John Philip Sousa music
Sparkling teeth and eyes
Opaque FOS
Fat Monk
Giant cribs
.....and I'll let you figure out some more.

Monk seems like he would be kinda stocky from what I read so far though.

 

[C. Lee]

Monk seems like he would be kinda stocky from what I read so far though.

Supposed to be barrel chested....not barrel bellyed.

Went through some boxes stored at my parents yesterday.....found all my Fu Manchu novels....haven't read them since about 1976.t:

 

[Showtime]

Wow man, you are uncovering gems

The Doc Savage books I am reading are from the 60's.

 

[C. Lee]

I found a letter sent to me by Bantam in 1979.....they had announced that they were going to stop publishing Doc....a bunch of people, including me, sent Bantam letters of protest....this was the reply letter from them saying that they would continue publishing Doc.

I keep some strange stuff in boxes.

 

[Showtime]

As long as these items you are finding weren't once living things then I think you're ok. It's always neat to be able to go back and look through boxes and find things like that.

Question about Doc and his origin. For some reason I was under the impression that Doc's mother gave birth to him and then died on the Orion in a storm? I am reading now that she died 14 months later "possibly by the hands of criminals."

 

[C. Lee]

From "Doc Savage:His Apocolyptic Life" by Philip Jose Farmer...

Dent never says exactly when doc'smother died, but we know from a number of supersagas that she died shortly after his birth. It's reasonable to suppose that she drowned when the Orion was driven onto a reef.

and...

According to a letter written by Doc himself, his training toward supermanhood started when he was fourteen months old.


Sounds like Murray made an assumption from those statements.

 

[Showtime]

In the outline Metropolisman and I have created we are having the boat wreck on the reef and Savages mother is lost at sea shortly after the birth. That is how we plan on opening the script.

 

[C. Lee]

Sounds good to me.

 

[3dman27]

likewise this should be a good script

 

[Morg]

Bummer....now I'm getting the red X......I'll have to find a new way to post pics....I wanted to show every cover of the books.

try using

http://tinypic.com/

or

http://www.fileden.com/


both are free, you don't even need to sign up for tinypics

 

[C. Lee]

try using
http://tinypic.com/
or
http://www.fileden.com/
both are free, you don't even need to sign up for tinypics

Thanks, but that's not what I meant....I was getting the cover pics from a site that must not be able to handle the load we put on it.

I guess I'll have to try and scan all my books and put them on my photobucket account.....but I'm having trouble with my scanner.

 

[Morg]

http://www.fileden.com/

can handle the load, I use it to load up big files

 

[Showtime]

I am watching Doc Savage as I write this.

 

[Showtime]

Well as above I watched Doc Savage on 7-7-07. I have to say it was a pretty fun movie, it was very very campy of course, but I enjoyed the tongue-in-cheek way it played out. There wasn't much big action in the movie, the opening sequence being closest the film came to being epic.

I liked how they included shots and sequences from past incarnations of Doc, such as Doc riding on the running board of the classic car. The twinkle in the eye was way to much and the close ups and Doc theme sock was way over the top for me. I also didn't like the fact that his crew went everywhere he did, I know it plays out like this sometimes in the novels what not, but I don't think it would work for the update I am working on.

In fact, my proposal involves that when Clark Savage entrusts his son to scientists at the beginning that it actually be the five of them instead of meeting them at war. This sould mean they would be older and act as mentors to Doc in place of his father rather than actually adventure with him that much. Don't know how that works in regards to the mythos.

 

[3dman27]

Well as above I watched Doc Savage on 7-7-07. I have to say it was a pretty fun movie, it was very very campy of course, but I enjoyed the tongue-in-cheek way it played out. There wasn't much big action in the movie, the opening sequence being closest the film came to being epic.

I liked how they included shots and sequences from past incarnations of Doc, such as Doc riding on the running board of the classic car. The twinkle in the eye was way to much and the close ups and Doc theme sock was way over the top for me. I also didn't like the fact that his crew went everywhere he did, I know it plays out like this sometimes in the novels what not, but I don't think it would work for the update I am working on.

In fact, my proposal involves that when Clark Savage entrusts his son to scientists at the beginning that it actually be the five of them instead of meeting them at war. This sould mean they would be older and act as mentors to Doc in place of his father rather than actually adventure with him that much. Don't know how that works in regards to the mythos.

sounds good to me

 

[rogue trooper]

Doc fighting Tarzan in "A Feast Unknown".

 

[C. Lee]

Well as above I watched Doc Savage on 7-7-07. I have to say it was a pretty fun movie, it was very very campy of course, but I enjoyed the tongue-in-cheek way it played out. There wasn't much big action in the movie, the opening sequence being closest the film came to being epic.

I liked how they included shots and sequences from past incarnations of Doc, such as Doc riding on the running board of the classic car. The twinkle in the eye was way to much and the close ups and Doc theme sock was way over the top for me. I also didn't like the fact that his crew went everywhere he did, I know it plays out like this sometimes in the novels what not, but I don't think it would work for the update I am working on.

In fact, my proposal involves that when Clark Savage entrusts his son to scientists at the beginning that it actually be the five of them instead of meeting them at war. This sould mean they would be older and act as mentors to Doc in place of his father rather than actually adventure with him that much. Don't know how that works in regards to the mythos.

In the books...not all of the crew are in every adventure....and they do tend to split up and get into seperate trouble more than in the movie. I had a list once of what was wrong with the movie (as in deviating from the books).

Don't want to upset you Show....but that idea doesn't sound good to me. Many people have their personal favorite character of the 5....and love to see them in action. So not having them involved with the adventures would not be keeping with the spirit of the books.

 

[C. Lee]

Doc fighting Tarzan in "A Feast Unknown".

That's a better cover painting that on the one I have....nice.

 

[Showtime]

In the books...not all of the crew are in every adventure....and they do tend to split up and get into seperate trouble more than in the movie. I had a list once of what was wrong with the movie (as in deviating from the books).

Don't want to upset you Show....but that idea doesn't sound good to me. Many people have their personal favorite character of the 5....and love to see them in action. So not having them involved with the adventures would not be keeping with the spirit of the books.

You could never upset me, I was afraid that would be the case. I just fell like all they provided was camp, at least in this rendition. I think if a modern day movie was created; and if they were untilized more for what their strengths are, more so then they were in the movie I just watched, they would fit in better.

They seemed to just be running around like chickens with their heads cut off. That obviously is only a product of the movie and the characters are potrayed much better in what I have read. They are such rich and deep characters, maybe it is now my job to show that and give them a rightful place in the world of Doc Savage.

I don't think it is necessarily a problem to fit them all in the adventure in some capacity, but the problem is how much of said characters can I incorporate to make the fans of Doc Savage happy without comprimising story flow and doing the characters injustice.

It's coming along.

 

[Whirlysplat]

You have to love the deconstructionist spin planetary put on the Doc and Tarzen among others.

 

[C. Lee]

You could never upset me, I was afraid that would be the case. I just fell like all they provided was camp, at least in this rendition. I think if a modern day movie was created; and if they were untilized more for what their strengths are, more so then they were in the movie I just watched, they would fit in better.

They seemed to just be running around like chickens with their heads cut off. That obviously is only a product of the movie and the characters are potrayed much better in what I have read. They are such rich and deep characters, maybe it is now my job to show that and give them a rightful place in the world of Doc Savage.

I don't think it is necessarily a problem to fit them all in the adventure in some capacity, but the problem is how much of said characters can I incorporate to make the fans of Doc Savage happy without comprimising story flow and doing the characters injustice.

It's coming along.

That's why many don't like the film.....the crew were wasted. The one who came closest to being like the book was Renny.

The rest were just shadows of their characters. They each have distinctive abilities that weren't shown.

 

[C. Lee]

You have to love the deconstructionist spin planetary put on the Doc and Tarzen among others.

I have almost all of the Planetary books ...haven't read them all yet. I know they did the character "Doc Brass"....but don't remember the Tarzan one.