Quentin Tarantino to Direct The Shadow?

Pajiba is reporting an interesting rumor that Quentin Tarantino is now attached to direct and co-write a new version of The Shadow at 20th Century Fox. The site says:

The Shadow is likely one that may be passed around to a few directors before it ever gets made — as of the moment, it's not even a huge priority over at Fox. In fact, it's currently out for a rewrite... However, the person that is now attached to the project is none other than Quentin Tarantino, who is also attached as co-writer... Maybe he loved [the] original radio show and the pulps (which do seem up Tarantino's alley), and maybe he saw Siavash Farahani's script and decided that, if anyone could erase the memory of Alec Baldwin's atrocity, it'd be him. Maybe Tarantino just loves the challenge. Or maybe he’s just added this to the huge pile of future possibilities and has no intention of ever directing. All I know is that, for the moment, he is being discussed (and this is a two-way discussion) and or already attached as the future director of The Shadow.

Universal Pictures brought the character to the big screen in 1994 in the Russell Mulcahy-directed The Shadow.

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Lamont Cranston

August 04, 2010

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I really hope that he doesn't take a giant Tarantino on this.
I love this character, so they better not f this up.

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Saintly

August 04, 2010

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Dude, that would be badass. And at this point anything would be better than the Alec Baldwin turkey we got in the mid-nineties.

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chuck

August 04, 2010

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Only the Shadow knows!

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Grayson

August 04, 2010

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Atrocity?

I think not. The 1994 version Shadow may not have been a masterpiece, but it was (1) faithful to it's source material (2) visually lush and correct and (3) had overall good casting, despite the missteps with Ian McKellen and Tim Curry. Like the Rocketeer and Phantom films of the same timeframe, they were really homages to a simpler era of storytelling and actually are watchable. Now... if this had come along just a few years later and made along the lines of the Somers remake of "The Mummy", it would've rocked. Just sayin'.

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Cpt. Obvious

August 04, 2010

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I am a big Taranitno fan...and I heard nothing of the sort...in fact...it does not even seem like a project he would have interest in.

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carcus

August 04, 2010

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the nineties SHADOW was alright. if tarantino were to take this on, it could be really cool if he sticks to the source material and just adds a little tarantino flair.
speakn of THE ROCKETEER, i think they oughta bring him back to the big screen. a huge special fx extravaganza!!!
jet packs and nazi's and mobsters oh my!!
who's with me?

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Jon

August 04, 2010

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This is BS

Tarantino has said for years that he is not interested in adapting someone else's work. He has been on record many time about this, especially regarding superhero franchises that he has supposedly been offered (or, more likely, has been rumored to have been offered). Fanboys get all wound up about this stuff, but from what I've read, this is not anything that he would do or be interested in even approaching.

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Joe

August 04, 2010

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Huh?

What was the matter with Baldwin's Shadow character, other than he grew up to be a pussy liberal, the movie was decent.

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Billy M

August 04, 2010

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soo

so really he sneezed and someone heard shadow?

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