Back in Dec. 2006 IGN Movies re****ted a RUMOR that Sam Raimi had
picked up movie rights for multiple Street & Smith pulp characters and
was working on a 'team-up' movie.
Dec. 6, 2006 IGN article: http://movies.ign.com/articles/749/749557p1.html
A week later official news came along through multiple movie news
sites [including Variety and The Hollywood Re****ter] that seemingly
clarified the earlier rumor. Specifially, Sam Raimi had picked up the
movie rights for the Shadow and was working on a movie based on the
character. [Sam Raimi has the movie rights, he's just working with
Sony to make the movie]
Dec. 11, 2006 IGN article:
http://movies.ign.com/articles/750/750382p1.html
Now, it kinda got lost in the shuffle of news about a new Shadow
movie - but Harry Knowles commented on IGN's rumor on Dec. 6th [the
same day IGN posted it]. In his comments, Knowles noted his surprise
at the "team-up" movie concept. Here's what Knowles said at the end
of his comments.
Dec. 6, 2006 AICN commentary: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/30905
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Like I said. I know for a fact that THE SHADOW and DOC SAVAGE are
separate projects that were being developed as separate projects at
least 4 months ago. I'll continue to knock on Raimi's door to get to
the truth, but at this point the only one that knows for sure, is his
Shadow...
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Now, while we have not heard much more about THE SHADOW, we do know
that it is progressing as just a movie about The Shadow. I've not
came across anything else about Raimi's Doc Savage movie since Harry
Knowle's comments last year. I can't imagine Raimi just giving up on
the Doc Savage movie, there's just too much greatness there - so
either the Doc Savage movie is coming along slower or Raimi has
managed to keep it well under wraps.
It'd be cool to see [good/great] movies based on Doc Savage and The
Shadow come out the same year. Sony could place one in the beginning
of summer and the other somewhere in the latter half [so as not to
compete with each other].
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