FOX Acquires THE SHADOW

This story comes to us from our friends at Latino Review:

A while back it was reported that Sam Raimi was producing the new feature film version of The Shadow. And at one point it was also rumored that Raimi was keen to take up the director’s seat too. At the time Sony Pictures was rumored to have the film as well. Universal Pictures previously brought the character to the big screen in 1994 when Alec Baldwin played the title role in the Russell Mulcahy-directed "The Shadow." "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.

- The Shadow was a classic series of pulp novels throughout the 1930s and 1940s.
- The Shadow was a great radio show in the 1940s. Orson Welles often played the voice of the Shadow.
- The Shadow was a cool serial in the 1940s.
- The Shadow has frequently hung out in the DC Comic universe.
- The Shadow was a pretty shitty Alec Baldwin movie in the early nineties.

Five years ago Senor Sam Raimi took a break from ruining the third movie in the Spiderman franchise and optioned the rights to THE SHADOW. He never even got a script for the poor Shadow.

Anyway after five years Sony woke up and said Sayonara to the Shadow.

So Raimi ran around begging for someone to save his precious invisible hero.  And what the Taco has come to tell you is- he’s getting Fox to pick the project up.  Emma Watts at Fox is paying a MILLION DOLLARS to pick up The Shadow.  She may not realize what she is buying.  And get this, ninos- Raimi is no longer going to direct.  Word is he is looking at David Slade to direct the film.  I guess because he made THIRTY DAYS OF NIGHT feel like THIRTY YEARS OF PULLING MY PUBIC HAIRS OUT.  Raimi produced that mess and Slade, coming off Twilight 3.0 in 3D is hot.

Well, when I was 11 I thought the Alec Baldwin version of THE SHADOW was pretty cool, but I was 11. And I have to admit I haven’t seen it since.

As far as a new one, personally I think I’ve already got the perfect man for the job…

Tell me you don’t see it!

Anyway, the point is FOX sucks and I’m sure they’ll screw this one up too.