Sony Pictures Television has picked up the rights to TheDestroyer novels, adapting the best-selling pulp series for television with BetterCaulSaul writer Gordon Smith producing:
After starring in over 150 novels, Remo Williams is making his way to the small screen. First published in 1971, The Destroyer was a pulp novel series conceived by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir. When the first Destroyer book opens, cop protagonist Remo Williams is framed for a crime he didn't commit and apparently sentenced to death.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Using his detective skills and brutal martial arts training, Remo soon rises in the ranks and becomes critical to the protection of the country. The training in question was instilled in him by Master Chiun and is called Shinanju, which is a fictional Korean fighting style that takes shape over the course of the first several novels.
The first film based on The Destroyer books, called Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins..., came out in 1985 and starred Fred Ward. Though it was meant to launch a cinematic universe, the box office and audience reactions were not quite up to par. There was an attempt at a television pilot a few years later, titled Remo Williams, but it too failed to get off the ground.
Regardless of the plot and setting choices they may make, The Destroyer producers have made it clear that they intend to pull from the vast universe that the book series has amassed and wish to maintain the novels' distinct brand of humor. After all, there are distinguishing traits that have made Remo Williams feel immortal, even as he changes hands and ghostwriters and attempts to infiltrate television screens by whatever means necessary.
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