Black was to direct Doc Savage for Sony Pictures from a script he had co-written with Anthony Bagarozzi and Charles Mondry.
Sony’s small screen branch is partnering with Neal H. Mortiz’s Original Film and Condé Nest Entertainment to develop a scripted series based on the Street & Smith pulp fiction franchise as part of a three-year deal between Original Film and Sony Pictures TV.
Pulp publisher Henry W. Ralston and editor John L. Nanovic created Doc Savage in 1933 with a run of 181 individual stories, later reissued as paperbacks.
A much-maligned movie Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze was released by Warner Bros. in 1975, produced by George Pal and starring Ron Ely.