With all the talk lately about how and if to continue the Indiana Jones franchise - do they keep an aging Harrison Ford in the role or will audiences accept a new actor to take on the iconic hat and whip - a different solution comes to mind. Why not let Indy rest when Harrison Ford is done playing him and instead focus on a new Doc Savage movie series? That could fill the gap left by featuring another pulp hero in a period setting that travels the world encountering artifacts, opposition and deadly deathtraps.
Isn't Indiana Jones just an updating of Allan Quartermain? :)
ReplyDeleteI would like to see more diverse characters like Doc Savage - John Carter treated better by Hollywood. The whole Indiana Jones thing just seems like people hanging on to a concept that is past it's prime. I mean, Harrison Ford. He's almost as old as the Old Indiana Jones from The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles...
It seems Hollywood has already tried-and-failed with that concept. Not only with the 1975 Doc Savage film that starred ex-TV Tarzan Ron Ely. But, also, with the (criminally under-rated) Shadow flick Alec Baldwin starred in, twenty years later!
ReplyDeleteI think both franchises can coexist. Let's bring Sean Patrick Flannery back as Indy during the Pulp era, and also find someone to play Doc Savage.
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I wouldn't mind seeing them try both. And Indy (who is a better known character to the general movie audience) could pave the way for a Doc movie.
ReplyDeleteCool cover. I think Lobster Johnson would have been a more obvious crossover with Doc Savage as they lived in a closer timeline.
ReplyDeleteAbout a decade or two back I had really hoped Dolph Lundgren would have been cast as Doc Savage for a movie. Still, I do hope Hollywood puts together a Doc Savage movie sooner than later.
Actually, I would like several of the old pulp heroes brought together for a movie, sort of like the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but with characters like Doc Savage, the Phantom, the Spider, Tarzan, Green Hornet, the Shadow, Mandrake the Magician, Dick Tracy, and the Spirit. And have them face Fu Manchu or someone like that. Now that could be a fun movie!
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Ordinaryguy2's idea for a league of pulp heroes put me in mind of Doc Brass' group of
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To Namesake #1: Dynamite Entertainment is already doing that with JUSTICE, INC. (w/Doc Savage, the Shadow, and the albino-like Avenger). While the recently revived Valiant Comics have already teamed up with King Features Syndicate to combine Lee Falk's Mandrake the Magician and the Phantom with Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon. The latter premise being that Ming the Merciless used a Stargate-like device to hit Earth with a massive EMP that's knocked out all high-tech electronics. Now, while Gordon and Company try to overthrow Ming's empire out in space, Mandrake and his friends have to combat more conventional crime in a world suddenly forced to revert to analog computers, celluloid cameras, black-and-white movies, and vacuum tube radioes!
ReplyDeleteTo Namesake #2: I quite agree. I especially enjoyed the flashback of their "snowflake" experiments, in which they battled a thinly-disguised Silver Age Justice League (lol)!
ReplyDeleteJohn Carter was given a shot, so very recently, and it bombed so terribly we may never see any more pulp heroes ever again. Still, I will hope for more Carter of Mars... more Quartermain... more Doc Savage... and maybe even Carson of Venus too! http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Carson_Napier_(Earth-ERB)
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