Characters that have yet to get a "definitive" movie treatment?

[Great Rao]

Doc Savage and the Cthulhu Mythos of Lovecraft are two pulp fiction concepts that have been attempted but have never produced anything memorable.

I think the definitive Lovecraft movie has been made, although not widely seen: The Call of Cthulhu is a new, black & white silent film of the first short story, produced as if it were made around the same time that the story was published.

[Michel Weisnor]

Flash Gordon and Buck Rodgers deserve the definitive treatment. Most of the classic pulp and serial heroes are probably on the way. I recall Sam Raimi's in pre-production on the Shadow.

[Klar Ken T5477]

One of my sources confirmed (hush hush and on the QT here) that which was rumored: Raimi's scored all the Street & Smith biggies and after The Shadow is............









 Doc

[Aldous]

Wasn't Clint pretty much playing Jonah Hex in "Hang Em High" anyway?

I don't think he was. "Hang 'Em High" is yet another example of the yanks trying to duplicate something European, only to prove they didn't get it the first time around.

But it's sort of what I was getting at. Was early Jonah from "Weird Western" not a rip-off clone of Manco? Of course he was. So for Clint to play a rip-off of himself would be a little odd... even incestuous.

[JulianPerez]

Four words: John Carter of Mars.

Mainly, 'cuase there hasn't been one to date (other than Bob Clampett's aborted JCOM toon in the 30s and a billion other 'announced' projects)

At this point, I'd be happy as a pig in horse manure with John Carter getting ANY movie treatment. Definitive can wait once we've got ONE version.

It really bugs me when overpriveledged Batman or X-Men fans complain about how their pet idea took years to become a movie. What, a whole ten years? Boo-hoo.

John Carter of Mars has been in Development Hell, on and off, since 1932. To give some perspective here, it almost became the first full-length animated feature of all time under Bud Clampett. Later on, Ray Harryhausen tried to get the project started for years. And they wanted Tom Cruise to be John Carter, and to give some perspective here, this was back when casting Tom Cruise as a man from Mars wouldn't be quite as appropriate as it is today.

[TELLE]

Johnny was replaced by H.E.R.B.I.E. the "lovable" robot, who is more or less to FF fans what Bat-Mite is to Batman fans. 

I agree, HERBIE and Bat-Mite are among my all-time favourite characters!!!!!

[Klar Ken T5477]

Rumor hath it that JCOM is going to be animated!  Chickens!

For a glimpse at Bob Clampett's test footage pick up the Best of Beany & Cecil dvd.  Sad it was never green lit but Im sure the cost would have been quite prohibitive.  Very much in the Fleischer tradition before there WAS a Flesicher Superman!

[Aldous]

Johnny was replaced by H.E.R.B.I.E. the "lovable" robot, who is more or less to FF fans what Bat-Mite is to Batman fans. 

I agree, HERBIE and Bat-Mite are among my all-time favourite characters!!!!!

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