He portrays the excesses of violence, the nature of greed, and the need for vengeance, and he does so while keeping within the confines of a Batman-style template.īut Max Allan Collins isn’t known for writing Scar of the Bat or any superhero story. Collins takes the mythology surrounding the real people of 1930s Chicago and blends it with the mythology of the Batman franchise. The book is relatively short but a fascinating insight into the writer, more than an expansion of the character. It’s like a What if.? take on Batman, fixated on prohibition-era America with a historically real world application of the vigilante character. And I killed both of them.I recently picked up a copy of Scar of the Bat by Max Allan Collins and Eduardo Barreto. And you have me in it, Don Moustache with a hat on it, but you also have two guys who turned out to be two of the biggest motion picture presences in the history of the industry with Jude Law and Danny Craig. It was shot by Conrad Hall, okay? It has Paul Newman. “For one reason or another, no one references Road to Perdition, and that was an incredibly important movie for me to go through.
Tom Hanks and Tyler Hoechlin in Road to PerditionĪlso read: Movies That Bombed When They Released But Later Became Cult ClassicsĮquipped with a cast that would now be considered a cherry-picked roster of delectable Hollywood A-listers, the adaptation remains a tragedy for Tom Hanks due to its forgotten status.
But history has recorded a rare few projects with the potential of becoming an instant classic that instead attracted highly divisive criticism from the audience of the time. Featuring for the last time the works of two extraordinary artists of their time, Paul Newman and Conrad Hall, the movie was set to be a definitive hit upon release. Adapted from a graphic novel of the same name, 2002’s Road to Perdition was a starter pack of Hollywood greatness.
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