Shane Black managed to set time aside from making a movie about a comic book character to talk about his hopes to make a movie about another comic book character. The plan is to someday make a movie about the iconic Doc Savage and recapturing the magic of an action-adventure film.
Source: Geek Tyrant
You are also doing the “Death Note” movie and are still working on “Doc Savage,” which people have been talking about for years. That’s a lot of comic book movies — do you feel that’s the direction you are going in right now or you are interested in?
If we do “Doc Savage,” the challenge is make it adult. I think that there are so few practitioners of action movies these days who are doing worthwhile stuff that it behooves me to try to weigh in and try to do the “Raiders Of The Lost Ark”-type stuff, to try to recapture the magic. When I stood in line for a summer movie when I was coming up at eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old, I stood in line for two and a half, three hours and you got the goods! They delivered! And if they didn’t, you went outside and said, “Arg, ‘IndianaJones 2’ wasn’t that good, I stood in line for three hours!” Now, you don’t know what you’re getting!
There’s just, I think, a decrease in the quality of these types of comic book action movies, and so it’s almost irresistible, sometimes, to try and shore that up a little, or weigh in at least with my opinion about what’s wrong and how it should be…I do want to do “Doc Savage.” The script is still evolving and I’m kind of busy, but I want to get it right and I want to do it.
The man is on a mission. I like that. I like that he’s trying to re-create that feeling some of us had in our youth for a new generation. I don’t know if he can pull it off but I do like the thought process behind his approach.
The truth is that today’s generation will never be like generations that came before and the way people digest media and order tickets and sometimes reserve seats online doesn’t always require a person to stand in line for hours upon hours to enjoy a film anymore, but instead teaches people to familiarize themselves with the “F5” key. That type of satisfaction may be inacquireable from a Directors’ standpoint but I respect him for setting that goal in the first place. And with a comic book movie no-less, kudos.
