I highly suggest every shadow fan check this film out. After I reviewed it I keep on wondering what if the new The Shadow film was done in this style?

Dark City has a great mystery, adventure, and action. All the elements that The Shadow needs.

Anyone see this film before? What do you think?

If this were to be the new The Shadow film coming out in 2010, I’d be pissed. Sure there are plenty of differences between Batman and The Shadow, but they are also very similar.

I would want a stylized city, based off of the 1930s. Ideally it could still be historical. A city going through the depression brings an emotional impact to the story. Imagine the opening of King Kong. The Dark Knight’s Gotham wasn’t anything memorable. It was just some place with some random villains for some random reason.

Lamont Cranston needs to be likable. Bruce Wayne was possibly the most annoying rich guy ever. Cranston is a charming playboy. In today’s super hero era he would be Tony Stark.

Cranston becomes The Shadow for redemption purposes. In The Dark Knight it was never really clear why Wayne needed to even transform into Batman. Sure they went through all of that in Batman Begins, but remind us of it. Have 1 emotional scene in the movie!

Ultimately, The Dark Knight story was lacking. Random gangs were fighting. Then The Joker came in. He fights Batman. There’s no mystery or intrigue into that story. The Shadow really needs to kick some ass in this area.

Whether you agree with me or not, lets finally get the real living shadow back into popular culture!

Let me know what you all thought of The Dark Knight.

The original teaser trailer didn’t do this film justice. This new full length trailer has everything that a Spirit fan could want! It looks mind-blowingly entertaining. Over the top action, girls, and bursts of comic relief.

What are your thoughts?

Ok maybe we’re not buddies, but yesterday I had the privilege to work as a background actor in his upcoming Drag Me to Hell film. It was pretty great to see the man in action. For those of you who don’t know Sam Raimi is the director of Spiderman 1-2-and 3.

Raimi is also a producer on the upcoming The Shadow film slated for a 2010 release according to IMDB. Sadly I did not get a chance to take with him - I wasn’t necessarily expecting a 1-on-1 situation considering he’s making a movie and I was hired to fill an empty chair.

Call time was at 8:30am and I was finally let go from the film at 9:30pm. As an extra I had a long day of sitting around and being paid to do nothing. Good times indeed.

I suppose that this is my Shadow thrill for the summer.

Less than 12 days as of this post… Sure it’s not The Shadow, but another neighborhood friendly hero is knocking at our doors!

If The Shadow ever fought an enemy in the 21st century, it’d be the internet. Why? I don’t know, I just felt like saying that.

TheShadowFan.com was hacked 2 days ago and I only noticed the issue now. Sorry about being slow on fixing that. If you have an account here, you might want to change your password just in case.

Good news is that The Shadow Fan reader  Kometman, came up with a good idea about getting The Shadow on Facebook. As such I’ve gone through and created a Fan page for The Shadow! Make sure to join it ASAP and let all your friends know.

“The screenplay is being written by Siavash Farahani.”

The origin of The Shadow spanned years in the making, I doubt that the Farahani could look at all of The Shadow material and write a half-decent script in 11 months. But then maybe the looming writer’s strike gave Farahani a strict deadline to finish the script, sometime before the strike occurred.

Either way. hopefully we won’t hear news that the film has been pushed back from it’s 2010 release date. That would be pretty disappointing.