While mentioning his love and admiration for pulp superheroes Batman, Superman, and The Shadow, “Send Help” director Sam Raimi says he’s open to the idea of helming a movie featuring a DC Comics character, but he has some reasonable demands before doing so.
Chatting with MovieWeb to promote his latest theatrical feature, Raimi revealed he’d really only be interested if a hypothetical DC Comics film project had an original story, was character-focused, and wasn’t just a retread of things audiences have already experienced. This comes after renewed calls from the online fan community to allow Raimi access to Batman.
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“I love Batman. I tried to make a Batman film. I couldn’t get the rights. I love The Shadow. I also couldn’t get the rights to that one. But, um, Superman’s always been one of my favorites. Yeah, there’s a tremendous amount of DC characters that I love, and it would just take the writers to come up with an original story based on their character, that’s true to the character and part of their real universe, not something that disappoints the fans, but something that’s based on the fans love of the character and brings out the best moment of those characters and their proper conflicts, or the right challenges for the right hero. If it were a story that had a real journey for that particular individual. Then I’d love to make the movie,” Raimi said of his interest in tackling the world of DC Comics for DC Studios.
Raimi, of course, is remarking on his previous attempts to make movies based on Batman and The Shadow before ultimately crafting his own original superhero project with “Darkman,” which he’s now trying to resurrect with a new installment at his production banner Ghost House Pictures, but is having trouble getting the financing together.
There are certainly a slew of DC-owned characters that could be perfect for Raimi, like Swamp Thing (James Mangold had been trying to get a new movie going, but there hasn’t been an update in ages), or possibly another tragic figure like Deadman (Guillermo del Toro tried to put together a solo film and wanted to add him to his “Justice League Dark” project) or other supernatural characters that feel within the “Evil Dead” director’s wheelhouse for heroics (having tackled both Marvel’s Spider-Man and Doctor Strange) and macabre.
Sam Raimi’s latest movie, “Send Help,” arrives in theaters this week, and you can read The Playlist’s review for the satirical survival comedy right here.
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