The Phantom (1996)
Directed by Simon Wincer
The 21st successor to the role of Bengalla's resident superhero must travel to New York to prevent a rich madman from obtaining three magic skulls that would give him the secret to ultimate power.
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What critics compared The Phantom to
The setting is like an updated H Rider Haggard novel by way of Lee Falk's The Phantom , injected with a healthy dose of Afrofuturism.
The closest comparison I can make is to 1996's The Phantom, which eschewed serious character introspection for old fashioned ass-kickery.
To that point, it seems Boam’s tongue-in-cheek theme will be that this Phantom doesn’t particularly excel at the job, or even want it — a sort of forerunner to Seth Rogen’s take on “The Green Hornet” in which our hero stumbles into any success he enjoys and largely thanks to his cast of supporting characters.