Director Warren Beatty is considering making a “Dick Tracy” sequel. The original film was shown last night at Geoff Boucher's Hero Complex Film Festival.
Oscar-winner Beatty, who directed and starred in the Touchstone Pictures 1990 detective movie based on Chester Gould‘s long-running comic strip, said he’s been designing a sequel and wants to “get it right.” Beatty recently won a lawsuit which awarded him full rights to the character, Dick Tracy and the comic strip as a whole.
“When you’re really doing good work is when you don’t know you’re working, and when something just occurs to you, and you go, ‘Oh, of course.’” Beatty told the packed auditorium at the Chinese Six in Hollywood after the festival’s opening screening of Dick Tracy. In the audience were the film’s visual effects wizards Harrison Ellenshaw (TRON) and John Scheele.
Beatty also revealed a digitally remastered Blu-ray is in the works, but did not contribute any ground-breaking news to either project.
“I think it’s dumb to talk about movies before you make them,” Beatty said. “I just don’t do it. It gives you a reason to avoid making them.”