Producers Neil "The Green Hornet" Moritz and Ori Marmur are developing a new screen adaptation of pulp magazine character 'Doc Savage', for Sony Pictures with writer Shane "Lethal Wepon" Black drafting a period screenplay, set in the 1930's.
The character of 'Doc Savage' was originally published in 181 American pulp magazines during the 1930's and 1940's, created by publisher Henry W. Ralston and editor John L. Nanovic at Street and Smith Publications, with additional material contributed by the series' main author, Kenneth Robeson, aka 'Lester Dent'.
"Doc Savage" subsequently spun-off into other media, including radio, film, comic books and a popular series of 1960's paperback novels.
The characters real name was 'Clark Savage, Jr.', a physician, surgeon, scientist, adventurer, inventor, explorer and researcher.
A team of scientists assembled by his father trained his mind and body to near-superhuman abilities from birth, giving him great strength and endurance, a photographic memory, mastery of the martial arts and a vast knowledge of the sciences.
The Doc savage 'oath':
"...Let me strive every moment of my life to make myself better and better, to the best of my ability, that all may profit by it. Let me think of the right and lend all my assistance to those who need it, with no regard for anything but justice. Let me take what comes with a smile, without loss of courage. Let me be considerate of my country, of my fellow citizens and my associates in everything I say and do. Let me do right to all, and wrong no man..."
Savage is accompanied on his adventures by five characters, referred to as 'The Fabulous Five' :
'Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Blodgett "Monk" Mayfair', an industrial chemist, earning his nickname from his simian build;
'Brigadier General Theodore Marley "Ham" Brooks', an accomplished attorney and well-dressed man about town, who carried a sword cane with a blade dipped in anesthetic;
'Colonel John "Renny" Renwick', a construction engineer, with "...fists like buckets of gristle and bone which no wooden door could withstand...";
'Major Thomas J. "Long Tom" Roberts', an electrical engineer who got his nickname from using an antiquated cannon in the successful defense of a French village during World War I;
'William Harper "Johnny" Littlejohn', an archaeologist and geologist...
The character of 'Doc Savage' was originally published in 181 American pulp magazines during the 1930's and 1940's, created by publisher Henry W. Ralston and editor John L. Nanovic at Street and Smith Publications, with additional material contributed by the series' main author, Kenneth Robeson, aka 'Lester Dent'.
"Doc Savage" subsequently spun-off into other media, including radio, film, comic books and a popular series of 1960's paperback novels.
The characters real name was 'Clark Savage, Jr.', a physician, surgeon, scientist, adventurer, inventor, explorer and researcher.
A team of scientists assembled by his father trained his mind and body to near-superhuman abilities from birth, giving him great strength and endurance, a photographic memory, mastery of the martial arts and a vast knowledge of the sciences.
The Doc savage 'oath':"...Let me strive every moment of my life to make myself better and better, to the best of my ability, that all may profit by it. Let me think of the right and lend all my assistance to those who need it, with no regard for anything but justice. Let me take what comes with a smile, without loss of courage. Let me be considerate of my country, of my fellow citizens and my associates in everything I say and do. Let me do right to all, and wrong no man..."
Savage is accompanied on his adventures by five characters, referred to as 'The Fabulous Five' :
'Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Blodgett "Monk" Mayfair', an industrial chemist, earning his nickname from his simian build;
'Brigadier General Theodore Marley "Ham" Brooks', an accomplished attorney and well-dressed man about town, who carried a sword cane with a blade dipped in anesthetic;'Colonel John "Renny" Renwick', a construction engineer, with "...fists like buckets of gristle and bone which no wooden door could withstand...";
'Major Thomas J. "Long Tom" Roberts', an electrical engineer who got his nickname from using an antiquated cannon in the successful defense of a French village during World War I;
'William Harper "Johnny" Littlejohn', an archaeologist and geologist...
