I was tooling around my in-box looking something else up when I came across the news that one more The Phantom movie was in the works. The moment I first saw the news that a new version of The Phantom was being put to pen, all I could do was cringe and go back to therapy to get the Billy Zane version out of my head. No diss on Billy Zane… but what in this God’s green Earth was he thinking?
Yet this version of The Phantom is headed to a 4-hour mini-series on the Syfy Channel, and I have to say, from the trailer I’m looking at (below), I actually think there is hope for this to be a decent movie-event on Syfy! It’s being brought to us by Carnivale creator Daniel Knauf.
It does take the old Phantom mythology and as Ryan Carnes who plays Chris Moore AKA, The Phantom, says when he looks at the old purple suit, “I’m not wearing that!” I hear ya bud! Time to modernize. This preview trailer for The Phantom looks like it does just that! If you live in Canada, you’ve already seen it since it aired there in 2009.
Syfy has announced the 4-hour mini-series will be premiering here in the U.S. in June of 2010!
In the mean time, check out the trailer for The Phantom:
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Billy Zane’s Phantom was so last century, like 1902.
So who would think that the phantom of 2010 is going to look backward or stay static with his presentation to the world? Embracing your time is as much of what the Phantom is about as embracing his legacy. That’s the beauty of having the sons to continue to pick up the mantle and the myth vs making the Phantom a single man that somehow lives forever. Which is his public persona of course.
Some actors can carry a movie; others like Billy Zane can make a bad movie watchable!
Billy Zane, the greatest B-movie actor of all time. (Pause, not gay). If it were not for Mr. Zane’s charisma and style of acting there would not be a Phantom mini series. Zane breathed the breathe of life back into super hero’s. That film was almost a flop, and would have been without Billy Zane. I have watched many movies that went straight to VHS, and even more that did not even make that.
I remember one movie with Billy Zane as some kind of Kung Fu God, and it was terrible. Then Mr. Zane had a scene in a black room with black walls and there was water on the floor. It was a simple scene with necessary dialog to move the story along. There was no action just back story and not even flash backs it keep the watcher interested. So what did Mr. Zane do to liven up this scene? Let’s see Kung-fu God with magic powers? He rode a bike! Yes he rode a mountain bike in the water and it made the scene pop!