Iron Man 3 turned Shane Black into one of the hottest directors in Hollywood, but even so we haven’t had another movie from him since, despite him developing various properties, most notably a film about pulp hero Doc Savage.
However now Sony has announced that Shane Black is set to take on a movie version of the popular adventure book series, The Destroyer, by Warren Murphy. Fight Club screenwriter Jim Uhls is onboard to write the script alongside James Mullaney. The latter has plenty of experience with the property, as while Warren Murphy may have started things off, Mullaney co-authored and became the sole writer of The Destroyer. Indeed the book series continues to this day, with the 151st title due out in October.
The Destroyer is based on the series of paperback novels in which Newark cop Remo Williams is framed, sentenced to death, then resurrected following a botched execution. He is brought back to serve as the enforcement arm for CURE, a top-secret, extra-Constitutional arm of the US government. Along with a seemingly ageless Asian assassin known only as Chiun, Williams sets out to clean up and take out those who oppose America’s interests. The stories combine suspense with Eastern mysticism to produce rapid-fire capers full of slick banter, social satire, and sudden violence.
It’s not clear when it will go into production, although with reports suggesting Doc Savage is nearly ready to go, it will probably come after that movie.
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