Cast your mind back a few weeks, and recall that a new version of 1930s pulp-heroic big-hatted master of all-sorts The Shadow was in the works, courtesy of Sam Raimi.
At the time there was speculation that Raimi himself might direct Siavash Farahanl's script, taking him back to Darkman territory and bridging the gap between the Spider-Man 4 crash and work getting properly started on Warcraft. Now however, according to The Latino Review,&utm_content=Google+Reader){href='http://www.latinoreview.com/news/exclusive-fox-picks-up-the-shadow-9360?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+latinoreview+(Latino+Review)&utm_content=Google+Reader' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer'} it looks once again as if Raimi will be content to produce, with David Slade picking up the megaphone and sitting in the folding chair. And where once it looked as if Sony were interested, it's Fox that are stumping up the cash.
Slade, should his name be unfamiliar to you, directed the Raimi-produced 30 Days of Night, so has useful previous with Sam, and is also behind the camera on Twilight: Eclipse, making him something of a hot property (if only by association).
The Shadow, at roots, is not unlike a rather more violent Batman: he certainly doesn't fanny about with any of this not-killing-anyone nonsense. Farahanl's script has been described as "ferocious", with the intent - at the moment - very much that this is a project aiming at an R-rating. A chance for Slade to cut loose then, in a way that Russell Mulcahy's campy Alec Baldwin 1994 version didn't quite manage. But then again, "Batman but more violent" also kind of suggests T****he Punisher, and nobody wants another War Zone. Do they?
More details as they arise...