“I’m not a great comic book devotee,” said Baldwin, “but I was familiar with the radio form because, like anybody, I was a fan of Welles, so I knew all of the early stages of Welles’ career on the radio. The credo of the Shadow was atonement for evil.”īaldwin said that he and the cast, including Penelope Ann Miller as the Shadow’s girlfriend Margo Lane, John Lone as the evil Shiwan Khan, along with Peter Boyle, Tim Curry, Jonathan Winters and Ian McKellen, listened to tapes of the radio show. “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.

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