Crash Ryan movie

[Skanky Vamp]

So, this falls under the good and bad news section. From Variety:

Producer Ryan Heppe has acquired movie rights to the 1984 Marvel Comics series “Crash Ryan” created by Ron Harris, Variety has learned exclusively.

The story takes place in an alternate 1935 in a world of super airplanes and giant flying airports. Crash Ryan is a pilot caught up in the battle between the heroic United Airmen and the forces of evil, led by a masked world conqueror who calls himself “the Doom.”

Harris said, “‘Crash Ryan’ is the product of a mishmash of influences: my childhood spent on Navy airbases; the old flying movies and Masked Villain serials I loved on latenight TV, and especially my fascination with predictions of future life made in the 1930s.”​

That doesnt sound bad actually.. maybe like The Rocketeer.. but alas, the article continues:

Heppe and Harris have teamed on a 50-page outline — titled “Crash Ryan and the Eyes of Lemuria” — which reinvents the story as an earthbound, steampunk-inspired fusion of Indiana Jones and “Star Wars.”

Heppe is producing a remake of “Short Circuit” at Dimension Films and developing a feature adaptation of “T.J. Hooker” with Andrew Lazar at Mad Chance. He was previously an executive at David Foster Prods.​

Oh. So... They are also remaking Short Circuit and doing a TJ Hooker movie? TJ Hooker?!? Erm. That last paragraph nearly devalues everything else. Not to mention steampunk Indiana Jones meets Star Wars. No. That doesnt sound as good. Why ground it?

 

[Mr Trick]

Sounds terrible to me.

 

[Ethan Reigns]

Acquiring the rights is just one of a long series of steps to getting a movie adaptation made. The film industry revolves around producers, directors, actors and screenwriters and the producer is just the guy who goes to the studios and pitches the idea so that he can get some money. In order to get money, he has to line up a director and at least one star who agrees to sign on to the project then find someone who can write a blockbuster script. Now if you get a rising actor or an A-lister to sign on, suddenly things get real. It may happen. Don't expect every project to turn into reality. Rights for such an obscure comic would have been relatively cheap. A lot of producers buy up rights just to have a trading card for what they really want or something they can say they have in work. A steampunk comic in art deco style might do OK.

Short Circuit and T.J. Hooker? Those acquisitions sound desperate. If you check him out at:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1420410/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

he has only been involved in things I have never heard of. Sounds like a guy on the outside trying to get in.