Sony Developing ‘Doc Savage’ Television Series

Deadline reports Sony Pictures Television has partnered to develop a television series based on the Doc Savage pulp stories.

Last summer, Neal H. Moritz’s Original Film signed a new three-year deal with Sony Pictures Television. Now, both companies have partnered with Condé Nast Entertainment to develop a scripted series based on Street & Smith’s Doc Savage franchise.

Original Film’s Neal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty will serve as executive producers on the Doc Savage series alongside Oren Katzeff and Jon Koa of Condé Nast Entertainment, the company that acquired the Street & Smith Library in 1959. Deadline’s description of the Doc Savage series notes that it will “will chronicle his adventures, featuring rampaging dinosaurs, secret societies led by dastardly villains, fantastic gadgets and weapons, death-dealing traps, hair-raising escapes, and plots to rule the earth.”

Sony and Original Film previously partnered to develop a Doc Savage feature film, with Shane Black tapped to the pen the screenplay and Dwayne Johnson signing on to play the titular role. However, the Doc Savage feature film was hindered by issues relating to business-affairs, according to the interview Dwayne Johnson gave in 2016.

Inspired by literary heroes such as Sherlock Holmes and Tarzan, Doc Savage was created by publisher Henry W. Ralston and editor John L. Nanovic at Street & Smith Publications. After debuting in pulp magazines in 1933, Doc Savage would later make the move to radio, film, and comic books. In the Doc Savage lore, the heroic adventurer was raised from early childhood to reach near-superhuman levels of physical strength and endurance. Combining his abilities with his genius-level intellect and photographic memory, Doc Savage aims to any right wrongs and correct any injustice he encounters on his adventures.

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Source: Deadline