Below is the new mini-series poster:
The Phantom is the twenty-first in a line of crimefighters that originated in 1536, when the father of British sailor Christopher Walker was murdered during a pirate attack. The only survivor of the attack, Christopher was washed ashore on a Bengallan beach, and swore an oath on the skull of his father's murderer to dedicate his life to the destruction of piracy, greed, cruelty and injustice, with his sons and their sons set to follow him. Making a costume based on the image of an old jungle idol, he became the Phantom. When he died, his son took over the role of the Phantom, and such the mantle would be passed down to new generations, leaving people to give the mysterious figure nick-names such as "The Man Who Cannot Die", "Guardian of the Eastern Dark" and "The Ghost Who Walks", believing him to be immortal.
Unlike many fictional costumed heroes, the Phantom does not have supernatural powers of any kind, but relies on his strength, intellect and reputation of being an immortal ghost to defeat his opponents. He also carries two pistols, and wears two rings, one of which permanently scars villains with the mark of a skull. The twenty-first Phantom is married to Diana Palmer, who he met as a child while studying in the US, and the couple have two children together, Kit and Heloise. Like all previous Phantoms he lives in the ancient Skull Cave, and also has a trained wolf, Devil, and the horse Hero.
The series began with a daily newspaper strip on February 17, 1936, followed by a color Sunday strip on May 28, 1939; both are still running as of 2009. At the peak of its popularity, the strip was read by over a hundred million people every day.
Lee Falk died in 1999. As of 2009, the comic strip is produced by writer Tony DePaul and artist Paul Ryan. Previous artists on the newspaper strip include Ray Moore, Wilson McCoy, Bill Lignante, Sy Barry, George Olesen, Keith Williams, Fred Fredericks and Graham Nolan.
New Phantom stories are also published in comic books in different parts of the world, among them by Moonstone Books in USA, Egmont in Sweden, Norway and Finland and Frew Publications in Australia.
While the Phantom is not the first fictional costumed crimefighter, he is the first to wear the skintight costume that has become a hallmark of comic book superheroes, and the first to wear a mask with no visible pupils, another superhero standard.
SyFy's is a new re-imagining of the masked crime fighter. It's written by Carnivale creator Daniel Knauf and also his son Charles. The new version of "The Phantom" is a 2-parter made-for-tv mini-series starring Ryan Carnes as the 21st Phantom. Chris Moore is a law student and parkour runner who learns that he was adopted and after his parents are murdered, he must don the famous Skull Ring and train in the jungles of Bengalla so that he is ready to take on the evil Singh Brotherhood.
Heres the "The Phantom" trailer if you have not seen it yet:
Oh and heres the 1996 classic movie trailer highly underrated:
The Phantom SyFy mini series stars:
Ryan Carnes (Chris Walker/The Phantom), Sandrine Holt (Guran), Jean Marchand (Wandermaark), Cameron Goodman (Renny Davidson), Isabella Rossellini (Dr. Bella Lithia), Ron Lea (Detective Sgt. Sean Davidson), Cas Anvar (Raatib Singh) and
Ivan Smith (Dr. Deepak Baboor).
Many thanks to the guys at Phantomsite.net for the poster.
LEEE777 - Well i know we've seen the trailer here before but i do hope it does well and spawns a television series. Hear me out before your response, i like you are not to sure of the Power Ranger re-imagining type costume but the series could be a good yarn and if it does the ratings, hopefully with the mixed response they have got over most of the net about the outfit, they'll think about ditching it and going to classic mode, just a thought.
Talking Phantom, whatever happened to that "The Ghost Who Walks Movie" that was going to be a modern slash "Matrix" type feature film?