The Producers Of THE DARK KNIGHT and TRANSPORTER Bring Us Remo Williams...THE DESTROYER!?!?

Merrick here...

"The Dark Knight” producer Charles Roven and “Transporter” producer Steve Chasman are teaming up to produce “The Destroyer,” a franchise vehicle that brings back ’80s action hero Remo Williams. The pair have set up the project at Columbia. Charley and Vlas Parlapanides, who are penning the action epic “War of Gods” for Relativity, are on board to write the screenplay. Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir wrote the initial batch of “Destroyer” adventure tomes, which centered on Williams, a New Jersey cop convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. Williams is sentenced to the electric chair, but his death is faked so he can be reborn as the vigilante character the Destroyer, joining a top-secret assassin squad set up by the government to operate outside the bounds of the law.

...conveys THIS MISSIVE at RiskyBusinessBlog. I'm still oh-so-horny for Craig Safan's theme from 1985's REMO WILLIAMS film, which can be heard via this YouTube video montage: That project was directed by Guy Hamilton, who was...at one point...this close to directing the first SUPERMAN film. Keep in mind that the REMO WILLIAMS film we saw in the 80s was, itself, based on a series of novels by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir. The new project may feasibly draw elements from the novels rather than being a "remake" of Hamilton's film in the traditional sense.