News: A Sequel to ‘The Phantom’?
By Krystal Clark
What in the purple, spandex hell is going on here? According to the Associated Press, a sequel is being developed to the 1996 comic book movie, The Phantom. I seriously blanked this adaptation from my memory. It left a scar on my childhood movie experience.
More disturbing details after the jump.
An Australian production company on Monday announced it had secured the rights to “The Phantom Legacy,” a follow-up to the 1996 film, “The Phantom,” which starred Billy Zane as the masked hero who fights evil from his jungle headquarters.
The latest adaptation, which is expected to cost $87 million, will focus on “the Father/Son relationship, and what it means to be The Phantom,” scriptwriter Tim Boyle said in a statement. “The film will be set in the present day and will deal with the concept of destiny.”
What?! It will deal with the concept of destiny? Hmm, I haven’t seen that before, Spiderman, Superman, Batman, X-Men, Blade, Hulk, Iron Man, I could go on for days. What superhero doesn’t struggle with their “destiny.” Sigh.
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