To be more specific I am talking about the old 1990s movie adaptation featuring Warren Beatty as Dick Tracy, Al Pacino as Big Boy Caprice, and Madonna as Breathless Mahoney.
According to Bleeding Cool
So what exactly does the retired Beatty want to do with Dick Tracy in the modern day film climate where almost every pulp noir and comic strip character has either had a movie released recently, or has screenwriters/producers trying to make one? Surely at 74 years old he’s way past fighting the aging process to star in a sequel, but perhaps he could produce a reboot… or something. He clearly has plans or he wouldn’t have gone to this trouble, right? Unless he’s a megalomaniac and is one of those guys… you know the ones… collectors who are so obsessed with the subject of their obsession that they don’t want anyone else to get their claws on it.Beatty was given the rights in perpetuity as long as he kept making Dick Tracy projects.
He could at any time be put under a two year probation in order to start production of more, but if he made this deadline, the rights would remain his.
About give years ago, Beatty was put on the clock, so he started work on TV segment to feature the character.
By the terms of the contract, then, Beatty retained his entitlement to make more films in the series.
This has been dragged through the courts, but has now been wrapped up, some years on, in Beatty’s favour.
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