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Sam Raimi Knows What Evil Lurks In The Hearts Of Men...

The weed of badly directed films
bears bitter fruit...
Last week the rumor cropped up on Aint It Cool News that Sam Raimi was going to revive all of Street & Smith's pulp heroes in one movie. That would be a massive cross-over involving The Shadow, Doc Savage, The Avenger, G-8 and many, many more, which sounded like just one big cacophony. Might as well make League of Extraordinary Pulpy Gentlemen.

As of yesterday, some of that rumor has been confirmed. The Hollywood Reporter broke the story that Columbia Pictures has negotiated with Street & Smith for the rights to adapt The Shadow with Sam Raimi and Josh Donenfeld producing. Also named in the story is screenwriter Siavash Farahani, who has in his credits a script for Max Payne.

Will Raimi direct The Shadow? Right now, that's up in the air. Long ago in his career, Raimi wanted to do so with all his heart, but Universal Studios had the rights and didn't think they could trust him to handle it. We all know what happened: Raimi created Darkman and Universal trusted Russell Mulcahy to direct Alec Baldwin in the role.

It's a fun mess at times, but a mess nonetheless, despite having Baldwin, Ian McKellen, Peter Boyle and Tim Curry.

With speculation high as to what happens to the Spider-Man franchise after Spider-Man 3, Columbia would obviously be happy to keep Raimi in the family even if they stop making adventures of the webslinger. So just maybe Raimi would finally get his wish.

At this point, nobody's saying for sure. But we can keep our fingers crossed.

Derek McCaw

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