Warren Beatty’s long legal battle with the Tribune Co. over the rights to his legendary Dick Tracy character is over. The judge has stopped the Tribune from scoring the rights to the character because the Tribune were going to make a TV show and a new movie, based on the character. The legal battle started when Warren Beatty in the Dick Tracy costume was going to do a half hour TV show with Leonard Maltin . Warren Beatty won everything and now Warren has full control of the Dick Tracy, character.
In 1990, Warren wrote, directed and starred the leading role in “Dick Tracy” which also starred Madonna, Al Pacino, and Dustin Hoffman.
Deadline, reports.
Now that Warren has the rights, what will his plans be for the character next? A TV series, re-boot film, or a sequel from the 1990 film? I’m willing to bet a remake is coming.
Kev
Actor Warren Beatty who played the iconic character “Dick Tracy” the 1990 hit film which he starred in and directed himself, is suing the Tribune Co. so he can keep the rights to this famous fictional character. The Tribune planned to take away the character rights away from Beatty which he had since 1990 and Beatty wants to stop that from happening so he filed a federal lawsuit against the company. Beatty has already started working on a special TV series for Dick Tracy this year but the Tribune said they had the right to terminate Beatty’s rights to the character if they please. This made Beatty one unhappy camper and he is fighting back and is desperate to keep the character all for himself.
More on it here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081122/tv_nm/us_beatty;_ylt=Aj00ztYmJKHS1Tmcwe4CaORxFb8C
Go Beatty! Fight the POWER!
Kev
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