Shane Black returns to pulp fiction with DOC SAVAGE!!!
The smartest screenwriter in Hollywood grapples with the near perfect human hero, the 1930s adventurer once described as if James Bond met Superman!
Smart-ass screenwriter (I say that in the most complimentary way possible because I love the guy and he's a genius for writing Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Lethal Weapon and The Long Kiss Goodnight but man, his screenplays ooze with that big headed ego of knowing he is the smartest screenwriter on the planet) revealed over the weekend during a bowling session with AICN head honcho Harry Knowles that he is currently preparing to scribe a big, big, big movie. A big, big, big movie for the producers of Star Trek and Transformers (Kurtzman and Orci). He is writing... 
Doc Savage!!! A character who is one of the early inspirations for Indiana Jones and Wiki have a pretty detailed write up on him...
Doc Savage's real name was Clark Savage, Jr.. He was a physician, surgeon, scientist, adventurer, inventor, explorer, researcher, and, as revealed in The Devil Genghis, a musician. A team of scientists assembled by his father deliberately trained his mind and body to near-superhuman abilities almost from birth, giving him great strength and endurance, a photographic memory, a mastery of the martial arts, and vast knowledge of the sciences. Doc is also a master of disguise and an excellent imitator of voices. "He rights wrongs and punishes evildoers." Dent described the hero as a mix of Sherlock Holmes' deductive abilities, Tarzan's outstanding physical abilities, Craig Kennedy's scientific education, and Abraham Lincoln's goodness.The plan is to keep the 30s setting and Savage's team, his Fabulous Five; a chemist, a lawyer, an archaeologist, a builder, and an electrician. Though one wonders why he would need such a crew when it sounds like he can do it all by himself. He is even described in the video below as if James Bond had met Superman!!!! Easy to get excited over this, especially with Black's involvement but then my mind wanders off to Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Phantom and oh dear, I start to see a pattern of really bad pulp stories set in their original setting. Oh and let's not forget Sherlock Holmes which is right around the corner and looks intolerable. And then there's the awful George Pal z-picture of the 1970's... But Black gives me hope. He makes fun "man's man" movies and well as I said, he's probably the smartest writer in Hollywood.