The Sci Fi Channel is developing a TV series based on Lee Falk's comic strip hero, the Phantom, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
"Phantom" has been adapted a few times without much success, but Halmi said the previous stumbles are a good reason to try again.
"That there hasn't been a successful 'Phantom' leaves the door wide open for us, since nobody has made it their own yet," Halmi said.
Sci Fi appreciates that the crusader doesn't have superpowers and is more in the grounded vein of Iron Man and Batman. "It's not a guy in purple tights," Stern said.
The network also is developing an adaptation of Philip Jose Farmer's "Riverworld."
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