Living the Romantic Comedy (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
I had the great good fortune to have screenwriter/director Shane Black visit my Writing the Character-Driven Screenplay class this past week. The creator of the Lethal Weapon franchise, he also wrote The Last Boy Scout, The Long Kiss Goodnight, and...
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Lethal Weapon writer Shane Black says that his next project will be a Doc Savage movie.
Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Shane Black Scribing a Doc Savage Movie for Star Trek Producers | /Film : "Nifty screenwriter Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) is apparently at work on a new adaptation of Doc Savage—the pulpy 1930s alphamale hero—for the tentpole production duo Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (Transformers and Star Trek franchises). What’s more, Black...
Planet-x.com.au (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Not many people outside of the world of film know Shane Black by name, but most certainly do by reputation. Black is best known for being the driving creative writing force behind such films as Monster Squad, Last Boy Scout, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang , and all of the good Lethal Weapon films. Black has been bouncing around for the past few years, with rumors that he would be working...
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
One of the pulpiest of all pulp heroes, DOC SAVAGE, is polishing his pistol and gathering his Fabulous Five friends for a big-screen adventure, courtesy of LETHAL WEAPON guy Shane Black. According to AICN, Black is bringing writer Lester Dent's famed Man of Bronze to life, writing and possibly directing the movie. Black says he fully intends to keep the tanned, sinewy adventurer...
PopCultureShock (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
If you’re into screenwriting on ANY level, there was only one screenwriting god before Quentin Tarantino. His name is Shane Black, and arguably the only movie that the man has EVER faltered on during his time as a AAA-list writer is The Last Action Hero. With a list of movies that reads like an [...]
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... attached, and try to see it through to completion. Even better, they've hired my personal Jesus Shane Black to write a script. The news comes straight from the mouth of Black, who just happened to run into Harry Knowles at an Austin bowling alley. Let me back up for a little biography on Savage. He's a pulp hero from the 1930s and 40s, an ordinary man who was trained from birth...
Film Junk (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Well this sounds promising. It seems that 1930s pulp hero Doc Savage is in the process of getting a brand new feature film, one that's being produced by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman of Transformers/Star Trek/Fringe fame. No word on whether or not their buddy J.J. Abrams may have his hand in it as well, but apparently the screenwriter will be none other than Lethal Weapon scripter Shane Black....
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Anyone a big fan of the 1930's pulp comics character Doc Savage created by Henry W. Ralston? According to Ain't It Cool News, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang screenwriter Shane Black will be writing a Doc Savage script for Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (Eagle Eye, Star Trek) to produce. Harry Knowles ran into Shane at a party recently in Austin and was told by Black that "he is...
Empire News (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Screenwriter and latterday director Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, The Last Boy Scout, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) went bowling with Harry Knowles over the weekend, and revealed that he's working on a Doc Savage script, for the ubiquitous producing duo Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.A Doc Savage project has long been in development hell; mooted as an Arnie vehicle a decade ago. A classic "adventurer",...
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman's in-the-works "Doc Savage" adaptation has a writer, and his name is Shane Black.
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Yay? Nifty screenwriter Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) is apparently at work on a new adaptation of Doc Savage---the pulpy 1930s alphamale hero---for the tentpole production duo Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (Transformers and Star Trek franchises). What's more, Black let it be known to AICN that the project will be a period piece set in the aforementioned decade...
/Film (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Yay? Nifty screenwriter Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) is apparently at work on a new adaptation of Doc Savage---the pulpy 1930s alphamale hero---for the tentpole production duo Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (Transformers and Star Trek franchises). What's more, Black let it be known to AICN that the project will be a period piece set in the aforementioned decade...
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Clark Savage Jr. is certainly a jack-of-all-trades. He’s a surgeon, scientist, adventurer, inventor, explorer and as close to a superhero as you can get. Soon Clark, widely known as Doc Savage, will add another trade to his resume: big screen action hero. As reported by , while at a party, Shane Black revealed that he’s working on a Doc Savage script and may even direct the film. On top...
Pajiba (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... produced by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman ( Star Trek ) and being written by none other than Shane Black, who has some seriously cool writing credits to his name ( The Last Boyscout, Lethal Weapon, The Long Kiss Goodnight , as well as writing and directing the wonderful Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang ). Black is of course also known as Hawkins in the original Predator ("The other day,...
