Priorities for the new DOC movie

1. Actually make the movie.

2. Make a movie that people will want to go see.

3. Set it in the 1930s.

4. Adapt the material to the medium. This is complicated with DOC,
because DOC himself is complicated. Others superheroes are more
simple (i.e., Batman, where rich guy's parents murdered = caped
crusader) or vague (i.e., the Shadow, he knows what evil lurks, yeah,
but who knows why he wants to know, or affords to do so). You have
the headquarters, the lifelong training in everything, the Mayan gold,
the crime college, the five friends. This all requires a certain
amount of exposition -- much more than most half-witted summer
blockbusters care to attempt. The 1975 movie went with the voice-over
narration, and we know that didn't work (who was the famous director
who stated that voice-over in film is an admission by the director
that he is unable to use the medium?)

In article
<671dd4ad-8ed3-4efa-9b69-425e8889b9c3@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>,
Dave bellsouth.net> wrote:

Chemistry would probably work better if he was a smaller monkey; small
enough so that he and Habeas would be around the same size.

In article <93a84d5b-a0c2-4b4d-9668-313e5dbedad7@25g2000hsx.googlegroups.com>,
Captain Marvel gmail.com> wrote:

Maybe, but I always had a soft spot for Habeas. Chemistry I just detested.

Ted

In article bignews1.bellsouth.net>,
ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan ) wrote:

Yes

In article
<93a84d5b-a0c2-4b4d-9668-313e5dbedad7@25g2000hsx.googlegroups.com>,
Captain Marvel gmail.com> wrote:

Like Fu Manchu's pet.