Variety has revealed that producer Ryan Heppe has picked up the rights to Marvel Comics’ 1984 comic book series Crash Ryan, and has collaborated with creator Ron Harris on a 50-page outline entitled Crash Ryan and the Eyes of Lemuria, which “reinvents the story as an earthbound, steampunk-inspired fusion of Indiana Jones and Star Wars.”
Crash Ryan was one of the first titles published under Marvel’s Epic Comics imprint; taking place in an alternate 1935, the story follows “a pilot caught up in the battle between the heroic United Airmen and the forces of evil, led by a masked world conqueror who calls himself The Doom.”
“Crash Ryan is the product of a mishmash of influences: my childhood spent on Navy airbases; the old flying movies and Masked Villain serials I loved on latenight TV, and especially my fascination with predictions of future life made in the 1930s,” states Harris.
Heppe is currently working on the script for Crash Ryan with David Cowper, whose credits include Primal, The Harrowing and The Untutored Soul.
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Originally published March 26, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.
