doc savage – Moe Lane

DOC SAVAGE TV series planned.

Welp, this should be interesting.

The Man of Bronze is headed to the small screen. Sony Pictures Television and Neal H. Moritz’s Sony-based Original Film have partnered with Condé Nast Entertainment to develop a scripted television series based on the Doc Savage pulp fiction franchise from the Street & Smith library. The project is part of the new three-year deal Original Film signed with the TV studio last summer.
The scripted series will chronicle his adventures, featuring rampaging dinosaurs, secret societies led by dastardly villains, fantastic gadgets and weapons, death-dealing traps, hair-raising escapes, and plots to rule the earth.

Dwayne Johnson to play Doc Savage.

OK, I can see this. The important thing here, I think, is that Dwayne Johnson WANTS to play Doc Savage; based on conversations I’ve had with my wife* Savage is a role that you can’t just play casually. You need to be able to go all out. I’m pretty sure Johnson can do that, and genuine enthusiasm can make up for a lot. Guess we’ll see, huh? …Eventually: it’s probably not coming out before 2018.

Moe Lane

*She’s read the books, I haven’t. They’re on the pile, but… well. So is a lot of other stuff. Heaven for me is likely going to involve a well-stocked set of bookshelves, a TV, and a comfy chair…

I got nothing, sorry.

There have been a lot of all-politics, all the time days lately; not really surprising, because we’re heading to the home stretch of the 2010 election cycle. It’s funny, actually. Most normal people will start tuning into the elections after Labor Day, and here I am almost burned out by them.

Anyway… I got nothing, sorry. Not much new stuff (discretionary budget has been meager lately) to geek out about, movies ditto, I can’t really make myself be interested in writing new amateur gaming material for RPG systems I suspect that I’ve been blacklisted from, and it’s bloody hot out. So here’s a Doc Savage music video. My wife loves these books.

No, not because of the shirt.

Pulp genre – was some helpful links, now mostly about that post about the court case.

As you can see, I’ve added Conan to the Wish List, mostly because my wife thinks that we should pick those movies up at some point. My wife happens to be a stone-cold pulp fan, although oddly she’s more a fan of the Conan movies than she is of Robert Howard‘s books (probably because she associates the latter with local TV station weekend afternoon movies).

And while looking up to see whether the Doc Savage stuff was still available online now that they’re reprinting them both in dead-tree and Kindle form I came across this absolutely fascinating post about a court case with Conde Nast. I still don’t know who won that one.

Moe Lane

PS: My wife raved about The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril: A Novel: I haven’t gotten to it yet.