MC HAMMER Comes up with a Super Hero Idea...and it's plagiaristic

[Khephra]

MC HAMMER DEVELOPING PANTHER
Press Release



MC Hammer's - WorldHit Films announces their PANTHER film project has finished the script stage and pre-production will begin as soon as financing, distribution, and talent deals are in place. The film is expected to be budgeted at under $30 million.

The script, written by their head of Creative Development, Lance Dow, is based on a story by MC Hammer and Dow. Hammer and Dow will also produce.

The story with elements of Batman, Spiderman, and Daredevil revolves around a wealthy and reclusive Chicago heart surgeon and comic book buff - who dons a night-time alter ego of a Panther-suited, motorcycle-riding, martial arts-using crimefighter.

The character uses specialized equipment such as firing retractable panther claws to scale buildings and take out his adversaries, specialized pistols that fire immobilizing high-tech curare injecting darts, highly-sensitive listening devices in his ears to seek out trouble and hear adversaries movements, specialized contacts that allow him to see in a variety of spectrums with super-zoom capabilities and the ability to interact with satellite imagery from his own imaging and GPS satellite. He also maintains a deep underground high-tech command center in a rusting industrial area of Chicago where he keeps tabs on Chicago as well as sharpens his fighting skills in a special room where he battles holographic opponents.

Hammer had this to say about Panther. "This is really the first serious, fully-developed, stand-alone, African-American Superhero that is also a role model - to be created for film. We created him from the ground up and placed him in the visually exciting world of Chicago with its mixture of Old and New Architecture. When he and the villain's female sidekick COBALT battle from their motorcycles from twin-towers 40 stories up, the audience will be blown away. It's like a John Woo sequence at 500 feet above the pavement. We believe this is a franchise character and hope to expand into other African-American superheroes.

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Would someone please throw MC a copy of BLACK PANTHER from about 20 years back and whack him on the back of the head afterwords?

[everythingsxen]

1. ROFL No kidding...

The real Balack Panther was even a Prince wasn't he?

[Khephra]

2. Yep. Prince of Wankanada, irc

It's like...ok, you're going to do a Superhero film and you don't even study the black heroes that have already been created?

Sigh...that's stupid, especially from someone who has been in the Biz for quite some time now.

[ironflange]

3. Hammer?

I guess he has plenty of time to work on this kind of thing, working the graveyard shift at the Circle K.

[Khephra]

4. He actually has a show...a religious show

He's become a tv preacher. NO KIDDING. He's actually better in that gig than he is as an entertainer.

[bubba_fett]

5. MC Hammer ministries is still on the air?

Oh, how I long for that show. I thought it was pulled after two episodes or so.

[Khephra]

6. Nope, it's still on

At least I still get it here in Indianapolis. I'll have to check out and see if it's one of the major religious networks and let you know.

Hail Eris!