“Truth and justice and the American way - Superman. “Every super hero has a credo,” continued Koepp. Who knows? The Shadow knows because he’s on terms with evil. Offered Koepp: “I’ve always liked stories about a dual nature. How does the Shadow know? Well, he comes from evil,” observed Bregman, a poker-playing friend of the radio show’s announcer Ken Roberts, father of actor Tony Roberts. Recalling the Shadow’s famous phrase: “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?” and the response, “The Shadow knows,” Bregman pondered the Shadow’s popularity. It took David Koepp (“Jurassic Park,” “The Paper”) to come up with a script that pleased everyone. Orson Welles performed in 39 “Shadow” dramas, leaving to begin the Mercury Theatre on the Air, which frightened the American public in October 1938 with its broadcast of an imaginary invasion of Martians in “War of the Worlds.”īregman, a fan of the Shadow radio show, has had the rights to the movie version for about 12 years. The movie is based on radio dramas, pulp fiction books and magazines about the Shadow, popular from roughly 1930 to ’54.
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