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Raimi Knows What Evil Lurks In The Hearts Of Men...
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The weed
of badly directed films
bears bitter fruit...
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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.
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