Film Stories with Simon Brew
Dick Tracy (1990), along with the strange trick to hold onto its rights
Published: 20 April 2026 at 06:28 Europe/London
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Episode notes
June 1990 saw Disney spend big on a summer movie, at a point when that was the last thing it was inclined to do. But 1990's Dick Tracy - specifically the way it was promoted - was hugely influenced by Warner Bros' success with Batman the year before.
Dick Tracy though by that time had already taken around 15 years to come to the screen - and the aftermath of it would lead, bizarrely, to the creation of the film Jerry Maguire.
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