CRASH RYAN Marvel Comics Series Being Adapted for the Big Screen

The 1984 Marvel Comics series Crash Ryan is going to be developed for the big screen by producer Ryan Heppe, who recently acquired the rights. The comic was published under Marvel’s Epic Comics banner.

The series was created by Ron Harris and 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.’”

I’m not really that familiar with the comic, but it definitely seems to have potential to be a cool flick. I enjoy stories that take place in crazy alternate universes. Harris said in a statement:

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.”

Heppe and Harris developed a 50-page outline for the film called Crash Ryan and the Eyes of Lemuria. It basically reinvents the story as an “earthbound, steampunk-inspired fusion of Indiana Jones and Star Wars.” David Cowper, who co-wrote an adaptation of Road Dawgs, has been brought on to co-write the script with Heppe, who added:

“It’s an incredible canvas, but what attracted me was the redemption story: a man who can’t save himself being tasked with saving the world.”

Hep is also the producer behind films such as the remake of Short Circuit and a feature adaptation of T.J. Hooker. I really hope that we see this movie get made, because it could really be great. 

Source: Variety

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