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"Shane Black has signed on to direct Sony Pictures&amp;#039; The Destroyer. The Iron Man 3 director will bring the Remo Williams novels back to the big screen, reports Deadline.  Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir launched the long running series of novels about the secret US operative in 1971. The script was penned by Fight Club writer Jim Uhls in collaboration with James Mullaney. Mullaney has previously written books for the Destroyer series. The series revolves around a Newark cop (Remo Williams), who is framed and sentenced to death. His execution is faked and he is enlisted as an assassin for CURE, a secret agency operating outside the law that was founded by President Kennedy. Black is also working on the Doc Savage film, which is based on the classic stories of the pulp hero. The Destroyer series was previous adapted into the 1985 film Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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