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Tom's VisionFor myself, I would prefer a straight adaption of any of my favorite Walter Gibson/Maxwell Grant stories. No camp, no cutting up, no losing the blood and thunder tone of the pulps. This is vital. For myself, that's the thrill of reading The Shadow, it's all atmosphere and action. The hapless victim, the dupilcitous henchmen, the confounded police, the dedicated agent of the wierd avenger of crime, the ruthless, pitiliess master-minded criminal,... then, from the swirling mist, from the billowing fog, falling from a broken sky-light, emerging from the inky noir depths of of a crime ridden urban hell, uttering an icy, mirthless laugh, twin blue metal 45 caliber's spitting flame and vengence...The Shadow!Lee Server, in his book on the pulps Danger Is My Business, described the Shadow so well as a character that "..is a cross between Dracula and Sherlock Holmes." How perfect is that, how tantalizing and irresitible is that? (Ask Bob Kane and Bill Finger, DC Comics, and Time/Warner just how great the Bat does for them, still!) Well, the job would be to out do every one that has profited off Mr. Gibson's Depression Era Fantasimo and not dumb it down and wink at the audience in a way that says "...we don't have any imagination, neither do you." Screenplay Combining Gibson's economic and atmospheric style with the taught and twisting (twisted?) way Robert Towne wrote the Roman Polanski classic, Chinatown, you could credibly deliver the masses the kind of super-detective adventure mystery that wouldn't leave them rolling their eyes. Even though he considers himself above the task, author James Elroy would be my choice for screen writer in this case. The inheritor to the throne of Jim Thompson and Charles Wileford, Elroy has a knack for the confounding, the shocking, and the vengeful. If you saw the film L.A. Confidential, based on the Elroy book of the same name, you get a taste of his hard boiled point of view. Director (Sam) Raimi or (Peter) Jackson would be ideal, but too obvious. If Jules Dassin wasn't in his mid-nineties (though still getting around) I'd pop for him. Tim Burton...eh?...some one who understands late fories film noir would be the ticket. Or maybe a guy like Beat Takeshi, who makes these utterly grim detective and crime films out of Japan? I ain't gotta clue. The Cast: Cast? Now I got trouble! I would be hard pressed to come up with ten of todays actors and actresses that I am warm too, to cast in a film of my favorite adventure hero. So, here's my dream cast of the past:
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