One of the few remaining legendary pulp fiction characters to receive a modern retelling may be headed to the big screen, courtesy of the wonder team of Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. The successful writing team has managed to turn the stale Transformers cartoon and toy line into a blockbuster film franchise and successfully reinvented Star Trek for a new generation. Now there is talk that they plan on producing a live-action Doc Savage feature.
Originally published in Doc Savage Magazine in 1933, the "Man of Bronze" was a popular staple of the pulp magazines of the '30s and '40s and went on to appear in radio programs, comic books, and a poorly received 1975 feature film by George Pal. According to AICN, instead of writing the Doc Savage screenplay themselves, Orci and Kurtzman have hired Lethal Weapon writer Shane Black to pen an original script, which is expected to take place in the '30s and feature a number of supporting characters from the Savage mythology, including his "Fabulous Five" adventure companions.