Sam Raimi's The Shadow
 

Columbia & Raimi Team on The Shadow
Source: The Hollywood Reporter December 11, 2006

Columbia Pictures has acquired the screen rights to The Shadow, the legendary 1930s pulp hero, for an adaptation to be produced by Sam Raimi (the "Spider-Man" movies) and Josh Donen through their Buckaroo Entertainment. Michael Uslan is also producing via his Comic Book Movies, Llc/Branded Entertainment.

Columbia has set Siavash Farahani to write the screenplay, says The Hollywood Reporter.

The Shadow debuted in 1931 on a CBS radio show which aimed to boost the magazine circulation of sponsor Street & Smith. The character was actually the moniker for the announcer, and listeners began demanding stories based on the name.

Walter B. Gibson created the character, writing the adventures of a crime-fighter who skulked in shadows wearing a hat and cape, and who had the power to cloud men's minds.

The Shadow became one of the greatest pulp heroes of the time, and the radio series, which featured a young Orson Welles, spawned the catchphrase "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!"

The character's most recent incarnation was a big-budget 1994 feature from Universal starring Alec Baldwin and directed by Russell Mulcahy.

"I've been a passionate Shadow fan ever since I was a kid and have long dreamed of bringing this character to the screen," Raimi said. He is not attached to direct at this time.

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I say do a sequal to the '94 film b/c it was great and if Raimi likes doing superhero movies so much stick to Spider-Man b/c if Raimi leaves, the films will go down hill like X3 did when Singer left to go do gay ass Stupied Man Returns.

"The Shadow" has been one of my favorite characters for decades. I can't wait.

I think it'd be swell if they could fit in some old sound bytes from "The Mercury Theater of the Air" shows.

This the same character Baldwin played?

Yes, one of the few performances that I felt Baldwin actually did good.

For anybody interested in reading about the original "Shadow" adventures check out this site:

http://thepulp.net/theshadow.html

also Nostalgia Ventures Publishing is currently reprinting the original novels

Cool. Other than the teeth thing with the knife, I liked this movie alot.

Really? I thought the Perver (the knife with teeth) was kinda cool except for its comic moments like when it wipes its mouth after Baldwin wipes his.
By today's standards though the CGI is kinda cheap looking but back then I thought it was preety good.

The Baldwin Shadow movie isnt bad ..it reminds me of "The Darkman" in a way..what I miss in Baldwin Shadow is a cool villian...

sir ian mckellen is in it as well..

and wasnt the bad guy played by John Lone ?