The folks over a Newsrama got Michael Uslan to sit for an awkward interview during the New York Comiccon a few weeks ago.
Despite a slow start, Uslan (at left) finally gets around to talking pulp movies about two minutes into the four-minute interview. And his comments about The Shadow aren’t necessarily satisfying for a true pulp fan:
“We have gone back to the pulps, and to the comics and, a little bit, the radio show,” Uslan says. “And I think it’s going to be an absolutely unique vision… not a usual kind of vision for what is or is not a superhero film. Shadow’s really a force of nature in it and it’s going to be interesting to see it played out echoing a lot of the concepts that Walter Gibson and some of the other writers initiated.”
Hmmm, I thought.
But I may have initially misinterpreted his comments. After browsing around the Web a bit more, I found another interview he did recently. This caught my eye…
“I think the one thing going in is we all see The Shadow as more of a force of nature than a specific person in a secret identity,” Uslan tells MTV.com. “The Shadow may actually be many people.”
That makes it sound more pulp-like: You don’t really know who The Shadow is, unlike Batman/Bruce Wayne. He could be anyone.
Originally I thought he was saying in the interview that The Shadow would be a more metaphysical than physical person.
I guess that was my Skeptical-of-a-Pulp-Movie flag going up too quickly.
Beside Uslan, Sam Raimi and Josh Donen being involved in The Shadow movie, scribe Siavash Farahani, a relative newcomer, is writing the screenplay.
For Doc Savage fans, Uslan makes a unofficial nonannouncement announcement that the Man of Bronze should be heading to the big screen.
The interview is worth a watch here.
– William
