"The Shadow" lurks at 20th Century Fox

[Aragorn]

The Phantom Dick Rocket

 

[RJDiogenes]

Tom, Dick and Rocky.

 

[Dusty Ayres]

I liked the Alec Baldwin movie though I wished for a stronger villain. Baldwin was great in it. Never understood why he didn't become a major movie star between this and Red October.

I'm one of those who absolutely adores the 1994 movie but I can also see why it wasn't some people's cup of tea.

Isn't Doc Savage getting a movie too? They should team up!

Count me in for another Shadow movie, even the flawed Baldwin movie was a lot of fun.

I doubt the new movie will have nearly as good a score as Jerry Goldsmith's 94' score sadly.

Excellent! I really liked the 1994 movie too. One of the things I remember the most was how could the surround sound was when the Shadow laughed. It seemed to come from everywhere!

Overall, the duo of Slade/Raimi gets me excited. I loved the 1994 version starring Alec Baldwin. I thought it was underrated and had a wonderful sense of moody atmospherics. However, I wouldn't mind an updated version, especially given today's technology and perhaps a more serious and less "tongue-in-cheek" approach.

Source.

Agreed absolutely on both counts. I love The Shadow, the Phantom and The Rocketeer, but The Shadow is probably my favourite of the three 30s pulp comic adaptations.

I've only seen Slade's 30 Days but it was an effective chiller/ siege movie. And Raimi is pretty reliable, Spider-man 3 notwithstanding.

I think the source material would probably suit Stan's style of direction more so but as you say, this duo is a good combination. Though I'm still probably more interested in Shane Black's Doc Savage.

Count me in. I loved the '94 movie. My only only fear is that they'll try to update it instead of going with a period piece.

Despite the stupid 'mindcloud' nonsense (The Shadow uses stage tricks to confuse and stun his enemies, like a ninja does, as well as multiple identities-NOT clouding people's minds!) the 1994 movie was quite good (even though they also forgot that the Shadow shoots people down in cold blood, just like Mack Bolan!) I especially loved the two songs featured in the movie, 'Some Kind of Mystery' and 'Original Sin' (based on the song by Jim Steinman and originally sung by Meatloaf on his album Welcome To The Neighborhood).

Here's the songs in question:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXpWfd1BNkQ[/yt] (official video from the film)

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oweSSuXiRQE[/yt] & [yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8mwCtFEY-s[/yt] (fan videos using the song 'Original Sin' and with more images from the 1994 movie)

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CpiUzStgTg[/yt] ('Some Kind of Mystery' as sung by Sinoa)

Thanks for the reminder, guys and gals!

You go to a Shadow movie for nudity?!?!?

Well, it does have the ability to cloud men's minds . . . .


"Who knows what evil lurks beneath my clothes?"

Hopefully no evil. But what do I know?

Didn't care for the Alec Baldwin version. He was miscast -- didn't have the right voice for the character at all, and his laugh was pathetic. It didn't sound menacing and scary, just hysterical. And the makeup to transform his face was rather silly.

Now, you want to hear a vocal performance that's perfect for the Shadow, check out Kiefer Sutherland as the bad guy in Phone Booth, a role that's almost entirely voiceover. It reminded me a lot of Orson Welles's definitive performance as the Shadow on radio, and featured a really great menacing laugh. I'd like to see (or rather hear) Sutherland get the role.




Boo!

Yay!

You go to a Shadow movie for nudity?!?!?

Well, Margo, not Lamont.

Eh, I'll settle for Margo barefoot.

 

[Christopher]

Despite the stupid 'mindcloud' nonsense (The Shadow uses stage tricks to confuse and stun his enemies, like a ninja does, as well as multiple identities-NOT clouding people's minds!) the 1994 movie was quite good...

Huh? "The power to cloud men's minds" was always part of the Shadow's abilities on radio. I was familiar with that catchphrase decades before the Baldwin movie was made.

Wikipedia says:

But in the radio drama, which debuted in 1937, The Shadow became an invisible avenger who had learned, while "traveling through East Asia", "the mysterious power to cloud men's minds, so they could not see him." This revision of the character was born out of necessity: Time constraints of 1930s radio made it difficult to explain to listeners where The Shadow was hiding and how he was remaining concealed. Thus, the character was simply given the power to escape human sight.

In order to explain this power, The Shadow was described as a master of hypnotism, as explicitly stated in several radio episodes.

 

[SeerSGB]

I love the Shadow- radio and the '94 film, and the few comics I've picked up over the years. The Shadow radio plays being re-played on the local NPR station on Saturday nights was what got me into audio-dramas* and old time radio

I just hope they resist the urge to Batman him up.


* - TOS-reruns, TNG-- then later TOS, TNG, DS9-- on between 6 and 9, then the Shadow at 10PM on NPR, followed by Late Night Horror Classics at Midnight...damn those were the days.

 

[Dusty Ayres]

You go to a Shadow movie for nudity?!?!?

Well, it does have the ability to cloud men's minds . . . .


"Who knows what evil lurks beneath my clothes?"

Hopefully no evil. But what do I know?

Didn't care for the Alec Baldwin version. He was miscast -- didn't have the right voice for the character at all, and his laugh was pathetic. It didn't sound menacing and scary, just hysterical. And the makeup to transform his face was rather silly.

Now, you want to hear a vocal performance that's perfect for the Shadow, check out Kiefer Sutherland as the bad guy in Phone Booth, a role that's almost entirely voiceover. It reminded me a lot of Orson Welles's definitive performance as the Shadow on radio, and featured a really great menacing laugh. I'd like to see (or rather hear) Sutherland get the role.




Boo!

Yay!

You go to a Shadow movie for nudity?!?!?

Well, Margo, not Lamont.

Despite the stupid 'mindcloud' nonsense (The Shadow uses stage tricks to confuse and stun his enemies, like a ninja does, as well as multiple identities-NOT clouding people's minds!) the 1994 movie was quite good...

Huh? "The power to cloud men's minds" was always part of the Shadow's abilities on radio. I was familiar with that catchphrase decades before the Baldwin movie was made.

Wikipedia says:

But in the radio drama, which debuted in 1937, The Shadow became an invisible avenger who had learned, while "traveling through East Asia", "the mysterious power to cloud men's minds, so they could not see him." This revision of the character was born out of necessity: Time constraints of 1930s radio made it difficult to explain to listeners where The Shadow was hiding and how he was remaining concealed. Thus, the character was simply given the power to escape human sight.

In order to explain this power, The Shadow was described as a master of hypnotism, as explicitly stated in several radio episodes.

I was talking about the original pulp stories, where the only power he had came from a powerful girasol ring that had hypnotic powers-check them out, and also check out the graphic novel The Shadow 1941: Hitler's Astrologer for more evidence of what I'm saying.

Even better, the movie producers are going back to the original pulp stories and the original concepts:

MTV tells us that they spoke to producer Michael Uslan, who revealed some info about The Shadow. He said that in the new version, it might not be one person operating as the hero, but actually a group of people. Here are some excerpts:

"I think the one thing going in is we all see The Shadow as more of a force of nature than a specific person in a secret identity," Uslan told MTV in an exclusive interview. "The Shadow may actually be many people."

"We've gone back to the pulp roots, the comic book roots of The Shadow, with a dash of the radio roots," added Uslan. "But we've deeply ensconced ourselves in the world of pulps and comics."

New Shadow Might be More Than One Person (as well as)New 'The Shadow' Movie Might Feature 'Many People' Instead Of Solo Hero, Says Producer