{"id":542,"date":"2009-02-18T21:30:06","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T04:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepulp.net\/PulpBlogs\/YellowedPerils_test\/?p=542"},"modified":"2009-02-18T21:30:06","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T04:30:06","slug":"michael-uslan-talks-pulp-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2009\/02\/18\/michael-uslan-talks-pulp-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Uslan talks pulp movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael Uslan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/a>The folks over a Newsrama<\/a> got Michael Uslan<\/strong> to sit for an awkward interview during the New York Comiccon a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n

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<\/strong> aren\u2019t necessarily satisfying for a true pulp fan:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have gone back to the pulps, and to the comics and, a little bit, the radio show,\u201d Uslan says. \u201cAnd 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\u2019s really a force of nature in it and it\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hmmm, I thought.<\/p>\n

But I may have initially misinterpreted his comments. After browsing around the Web a bit more, I found another interview<\/a> he did recently. This caught my eye…<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the one thing going in is we all see The Shadow<\/strong> as more of a force of nature than a specific person in a secret identity,\u201d Uslan tells MTV.com<\/a>. \u201cThe Shadow may actually be many people.\u201d<\/p>\n

That makes it sound more pulp-like: You don\u2019t really know who The Shadow is, unlike Batman\/Bruce Wayne<\/strong>. He could be anyone.<\/p>\n

Originally I thought he was saying in the interview that The Shadow would be a more metaphysical than physical person.<\/p>\n

I guess that was my Skeptical-of-a-Pulp-Movie flag going up too quickly.<\/p>\n

Beside Uslan, Sam Raimi<\/strong> and Josh Donen<\/strong> being involved in The Shadow movie, scribe Siavash Farahani<\/strong>, a relative newcomer, is writing the screenplay.<\/p>\n

For Doc Savage<\/strong> fans, Uslan makes a unofficial nonannouncement announcement that the Man of Bronze should be heading to the big screen.<\/p>\n

The interview is worth a watch here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2013 William<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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