Comments on: Warren Beatty Retains DICK TRACY Film and TV Rights

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:19:46 +0000

It sounds like Beatty was able to lock up all the ancillary rights — remember that whatever deal he made was made long before Batmania, when no one was giving much credence to the possibility of wringing a billion-dollar franchise out of a creaky old comic strip character.

I love the original. If this ruling leads to the director’s cut dvd there were murmurs about a few years ago coming out or even just a decent Blu-Ray release, I’m fine with it. That’s worth more to me than a new TV show or movie which, let’s face it, would probably be a disaster. The loss of new stories in comics form smarts way more.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:47:08 +0000

I should also note that if that’s all it took for Beatty to keep the Dick Tracy rights, Marvel’s never going to get the movie rights to Spidey, Daredevil, FF, or X-Men back.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:45:27 +0000

The fact that he was able to keep the rights, just by filming an interview in the Dick Tracy hat with TCM awhile back, and supposedly working on some TV special that’s never seen the light of day, is ludicrous.

Beatty is, what, almost 75 years old? He’s never going to play the part again himself, and I’m sure not what kind of demand there is for a new Dick Tracy movie regardless of who plays the part. The 1990 film didn’t exactly blow audiences away.

Unless Beatty’s looking to sell the rights, and the value of the property is questionable anyhow, what’s his reason for still wanting it?

By: Hans Christian Vang

Hans Christian Vang — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 16:39:34 +0000

How can Warren Beatty keep a new Dick Tracy comic book from happening? How does him owning the license to TV and Motion Pictures give him any power to control publishing, animation, toys, etc??

Man, whoever made that deal with him must’ve been asleep at the table.

By: JRC

JRC — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 23:30:09 +0000

very cool ads.
I’d love to see a new Dick Tracy anything, a revamped strip, new movie or TV show, animated, anything as long as it’s done well.

Could Bendis do it? Probably.