Once Warner Bros get
Green Lantern out of the way in a couple of weeks time and baring a financial disaster, I had expected attention to swiftly turn to a movie based on
The Flash (or
Wonder Woman, but she's got a small screen debut forthcoming) but there's another superhero character, this one definitely a B-list guy, which could beat the fastest man alive into cinema's.
It's On The Grid (via
Badass Digest) say a movie version of Gardner Fox and artist Dennis Neville's DC superhero
Hawkman is being developed, carrying the following plot line;
Part INDIANA JONES/DA VINCI CODE, part GHOST tentpole about the fictional superhero that appears in D.C. Comic books. He used archaic weaponry and large, artificial wings attached to a harness made of the Nth metal that allows flight. Most incarnations of Hawkman work closely with a partner/romantic interest named Hawkgirl or Hawkwoman in his fight against supervillains. Based on the DC comic.
Clearly with the plot line above mentioning the films they do the idea is for an origin movie based on the classic original character strand that followed Carter Hall, an American archeologist who turns out to be a re-incarnated Prince from Ancient Egyptian times and finds the Nth metal that allows him to fly. If Warner Bros were as cool as Marvel Studio's, they would develop a mid 20th century version of Hawkman, perhaps even in the
Raiders of the Lost Ark/World War II era but that might all come down to how well the period
Captain America: The First Avenger and
X-Men: First Class performs at rival studios. I actually have a huge soft spot for Hawkman and although a lot of my peers are turning their nose up at the idea of him getting his own movie when WB haven't been able to get the same for Wonder Woman or The Flash into production yet, I do think his story is rich enough and as I say, if you go period, that is the hook for something unique and the chance to do something different.
Adrian Askarieh, Gregory Noveck and
Will Hackner are named as executive producers. Askarieh has been developing movies out of Danger Girl and Kane & Lynch and also interestingly an ambitious movie titled
Leonardo Da Vinci and the Soldiers of Fortune which perhaps he has had trouble green-lighting and maybe he wants to use some of those ideas for a Hawkman film. Meanwhile Noveck was a producer behind many of the DC animated movies likes
Wonder Woman and
Justice League: The New Frontier. No screenwriter has seemingly been hired yet. So could Hawkman be a 2013 tentpole or will the efforts of the guys above go to waste when Warner Bros decide to use the character as a supporting hero in the controversial
Justice League movie they are planning for the same year? The latter seems more likely. In a bizarre coincidence, Frog Island Films asked whether 'the world was ready for a Hawkman movie' recently in a hilarious short film parody about the very idea of bringing the character to the screen. Yikes! Don't use that video as part of your pitch to WB guys. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT96_idWN0Q