{"id":38652,"date":"2016-05-31T09:19:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T13:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=38652"},"modified":"2016-05-31T09:19:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T13:19:42","slug":"dwayne-johnson-shane-black-doc-savage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/31\/dwayne-johnson-shane-black-doc-savage\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Dwayne Johnson Is Shane Black’s DOC SAVAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After teasing the possibility recently<\/a>, Dwayne Johnson has confirmed that he will indeed be playing pulp hero Doc Savage in writer\/director Shane Black’s planned big screen adaptation.<\/p>\n

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As someone who has read a good majority of the original run of 181 Doc Savage pulp novels, I have to say that while excited, Johnson’s remarks have given me a moment’s pause. I am not sure that I would agree with his description of Doc as a “weirdo.” Socially awkward, yes, and there is definitely some humor to be found in that awkwardness. I wouldn’t call it “amazingly hilarious.” But right now my biggest concern is whether Johnson has the acting chops to capture Doc’s intelligence and charisma. It’s a different kind of tone that we’ve usually seen from him and I hope he can pull it off. It’s a tricky balance. If Johnson and Black don’t hit right I don’t think we’ll be in territory as disastrous as Denise Richards-as-a-nuclear-scientist-in-a-Bond-film, but it could hurt the film if Doc doesn’t hit the right note.<\/p>\n

Black has been working on the screenplay for some time now, so I am raising an eyebrow over Johnson’s remarks that they’re breaking the story for the film now. This groundwork should have been done a while ago, unless they’re restructuring the script to fit it more to Johnson’s screen persona. And again, that would make me nervous for this film.<\/p>\n

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After teasing the possibility recently, Dwayne Johnson has confirmed that he will indeed be playing pulp hero Doc Savage in writer\/director Shane Black’s planned big screen adaptation. https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BGCDhYSoh0x\/ As someone who has read a good [click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[2140,1527,221],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-doc-savage","9":"tag-dwayne-johnson","10":"tag-shane-black"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t