Exclusive: Sam Raimi's Pulp Fiction

From Spidey to The Shadow and Doc Savage?!

Updated:Jun 14, 2012 10:39pm UTC

IGN has learned that several pulp heroes of yesteryear will be brought to life on the big-screen courtesy of none other thanDark Man andSpider-Man filmmakerSam Raimi.

The project would unite a number of famous pulp heroes from Street and Smith Publications, which had once been among the top pulp publishers.

Characters that we were informed would be included in the film are Doc Savage,The Shadow and The Avenger, and quite possibly other (or all) major Street and Smith characters.

Street and Smith's titles includedThe Wizard & Cash Gorman,Crime Busters,The Skipper,The Whisperer,Bill Barnes Air Trails,Nick Carter Magazine,Pete Rice Magazine andUnknown, as well as other crime and Western books.

Additional sources advised us that Raimi is directing the project, which IGN was told would be written by a screenwriter named Siavash Farahani (Ingenue). Farahani, we were also advised, wrote a screenplay for a big-screen version of the CrossGen comicRuse for Disney.

The Shadow was previously brought to the screen in 1994 with Alec Baldwin as the title character. ADoc Savage movie had long been in-development, attracting the likes of Arnold Schwarzeneggar, James Cameron and Frank Darabont at various points.

IGN will bring you more updates about this cool new project as they happen!