'Remo Williams' series coming from 'Breaking Bad' executive producer Gordon Smith.
Secret agent Remo Williams is headed to the small screen. Sony Pictures has inked a deal to adapt the long-running Destroyer series of action-adventure pulp novels. Deadline reports that Gordon Smith, executive producer of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, will head up the project.
In the Destroyer novels, Remo Williams is a New Jersey cop whose death is faked so he can become a super-agent for the secret governmental organization CURE. Trained in martial arts to a degree that it gives him seemingly-superhuman abilities, he's given the code-name Destroyer and travels the world battling crime, terrorism, and evil.
This won't be the first attempt to adapt Williams for the screen. In 1985, veteran James Bond director Guy Hamilton directed the big-budget action movie Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins for Orion Pictures. Starring the late Fred Ward as Remo Williams, the movie co-starred Kate Mulgrew, Wilford Brimley, and, inexplicably, the very not-Korean Joel Grey under some highly-offensive makeup as Williams' Korean martial arts instructor Chiun.
In addition to Smith, the series will also be executive produced by Adrian Askarieh, of Prime Universe Films, who also produced the Hitman video game adaptations.
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