Remo Williams returns for 'Destroyer'

Action hero Remo Williams will be revived in new Columbia Picture project The Destroyer, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Originating in Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir's adventure novels, the character is a New Jersey police officer who is sent down for a crime he didn't commit. He fakes his own death in the electric chair and reinvents himself as a vigilante named the Destroyer.

Fred Ward played the character in the 1985 film Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. A TV spinoff was made three years later with Jeffrey Meek starring as Williams.

Charley Parlapanide and Vlas Parlapanide will script the new take on the role, which will be based on the first book in the series and tell the character's genesis story.

The Dark Knight's Charles Roven and Transporter's Steve Chasman will produce The Destroyer.