Dick Tracy Special: Tracy Zooms In-With Ben Mankiewicz intro 2023

[@pvrplesticks1939]

You never let us down, Maso

[@brucesimmons5517]

Mr. Nicholas Mason was right, this is the best piece of media I've ever experienced.

[@missiinformation4615]

A special made to keep the Dick Tracy rights about a special made to keep the Dick Tracy rights, wherein it acknowledges the artifice of keeping the Dick Tracy rights.

[@COSun25]

Beatty needs to give them up. I wouldn't mind another 'Dick Tracy' film, but without him holding the rights.

[@Beetlejuice67668]

@@COSun25 why he went to court to get the rights back because the studio didn’t want to make a sequel when he did the movie studio is the reason why it hasn’t happened

[@WeezaY5000]

It's like a combination of Inception, Hollywood contracts, and copyright laws.

[@emerpus01]

The man is an artist, plain and simple. This may be his absurdist phase.

[@PeterJnicol]

​@@emerpus01 Agree. It's an absurd timeless classic.

[@AlMoSiCe210]

I now have greater appreciation for what Maso & James put themselves through for our enjoyment 🤣🤣🤣

[@jackdowley3994]

This feels like a RLM sketch

[@stephmhishot]

It's borderline experimental

[@davidkahnt2632]

Pomegranates

[@john_dont]

Love how Beatty couldn't even manage to fill up a half-hour so he just repeats chunks of the last special

[@IainMossman]

Here because of The Weekly Planet?

[@WarpedJim]

RODNEEEEEY!!!!

[@davishall307]

Fun fact you don’t see beatty from the waste down here because he’s still having sex during the recording of this

[@okjoe5561]

That's why he's still married.

[@chrislrenaud]

@@okjoe5561 I think you mean merried.

[@kennethrussell1158]

Inappropriate comments

[@WaldoBagelTopper]

LMFAO!!!!!!!

[@Jaydee8652]

Caravaneers unite!

[@zero_anaphora]

"That's a lot of Reds even for Beatty"

[@dizzzydoc9654]

Who is here after watching Mr sunday movies caravan of garbage?? ✋️

[@kiktheprik]

Rodney?!

[@halbkornbrot4689]

Rodney?@@kiktheprik

[@giogio8822]

The choice to film the TV screen instead of just playing the interviews and clips in full screen is simply deranged, it’s brilliant

[@kickorsidumain6140]

Who else is here from The Weekly Planet ... ?

[@Cyklopz007]

😂😂😂😂 I love this so much!!!

[@mattyoutubes]

So cool that he's still thinking about the 90s Dick Tracy movie and how it could have been better. I really hope there's another one from him.

[@BobBrinkman]

There won’t be. He has utterly burned his bridges on that.

[@mr_reborn]

@@BobBrinkman What do you mean?

[@BobBrinkman]

@@mr_reborn what studio would want to work with him on a Dick Tracy movie after he threw a tantrum and locked up the rights until the expiration of copyright? He already hurt the estate of the creator and showed himself as an utter prick. Seriously, what incentive is there to take that chance? In fact, has he even had ANY work since his first “sequel?”

[@talldarkstrangerpr]

This is a master class on copyright management, narcissism (It’s Beatty we’re talking about), and some surreal trolling a la Andy Kaufman. Look forward when the copyright expires in three years and then you’ll see what others come up with.

[@julianhermanubis6800]

Dick Tracy and some of his supporting characters (like Pat Patton) go out of copyright in three years, but the best Dick Tracy villains didn't come along until the very late 1930s through the 1940s, so what you could do with public domain Tracy would be kind of limited, with no Pruneface, Flattop, Mumbles, the Mole, or those other weirdos being available yet.

[@hat200100]

So who else is here because of Mr. Sunday Movies video

[@shanewilliams5150]

I love Warren what an fever dream this is

[@bobbyrooney]

What a superb piece of trolling and malicious compliance.

[@seth5529]

Who’s here because of mason?

[@Jevababy25]

I love Beatty and he’s a lot funnier than people realize

[@markw110]

Hysterically bad stuff. He's the man!

[@aimeeinkling]

This is easily the most confusing thing I've watched all week.

[@thecatblaster5181]

I got a lot of questions, but the answer I want is why the two interviewers in the same room on the same couch are in different zoom boxes when they're in the same office. The most wonderful moment of this is 6:15 when they're putting on their pre-recorded zoom that is supposed to be them greeting "Dick Tracy" on the call, but the humans in frame are clearly watching without speaking. This is media derangement to fluff Warren Beatty's right to use the character with a minimum of effort (and deny others the ability to), even though he's apparently too old and sundowny to do more than Rifftrax his old shit when he was young, and then use Dick Tracy to complain about movie-goers and realism. "Seriousness of movies," alright.

[@samroe4294]

There are so many layers of meta here

[@VonDoogan]

Shoutout to James and Maso

[@737215]

Sup fellow Mr. Sunday Movie fans 👋

[@craigrussell3062]

These Dick Tracy Specials deserve to be in a double feature with Kevin Spacey's post-cancellation Christmas videos where he's... maybe Frank Underwood?

[@rogerrambo4172]

Warren's plans for a new DICK TRACY movie are spectacular, 2 timelines ala Godfather 2, him playing Tracy at the end of his life thinking back to his younger days with Joseph Gordon Levitt as the younger Tracy taking on all of the most popular villains headed by Tom Hardys Big Boy Caprice & Eddie Redmayne as Flattop, Emma Stone as Tess & Ana de Armas as Breathless, same faithful look of the 90 movie, showtunes & songs but much more violent & explosive

[@telophasemusic]

That for real? Sounds cool

[@arthurl7493]

Yes please

[@johnpenguinthe3rd13]

Okay, this does sound cool. I just wish it would release already. It's taking FOREVER to release. But I do love the idea of the entire thing, so I'll be patient.

[@mr_reborn]

Take my money.

[@vinnym5607]

No. He'll just do another Zoom call in like 9 years

[@lauracarter1618]

i had no idea warren beatty was this funny. i bow down to these levels of pettiness. this is one of the best sequels i have seen in decades!

[@castortroy8621]

Idk what this is, but this is content.

[@chrissyellem7397]

How did I not know of this lol My father and I saw this movie in the theater. Good times!

[@pepelucho1751]

One of the only colors that in the Dick Tracy movie was blue because of the saturuation. That and the fact that the orange county harvest of oranges led the working title of this movie "Blue Harvest"

[@garbageboy8857]

What a treat. Howich did they pay leonard maltin to mostly sit silently in a room and stare straight into the camera?

[@ATMyles]

This is just bizarre. And yet, I couldn’t stop watching. A shame that Beatty’s vanity prevented him from wearing a nose befitting Dick Tracy in the 1990 movie (even as everyone else but the ladies in the movie was covered in prosthetics). Then again, he really wouldn’t want to put it on for these rights-retaining vignettes.

[@StephenLuke]

Even though Touchstone Pictures was defunct, Warren Beatty will forever be famous for playing the comic book character Dick Tracy. 😊❤️

[@anthonyruby2668]

I take that back! I think Dick Tracy is more in tune with modern times than Captain America! I bet Capt America still goes to the movie theatre like it's 1924

[@JoeAllenD]

You're a hero

[@garrettbays6942]

While I am here to cheer Beatty for telling Disney to s*ck it, I was not aware that Leonard Maltin needed a cain to walk, and it just made me sad to see him in the condition he was in. Leonard Maltin is my go-to guy for movie ratings. Roger Ebert is my second.

[@TheBatmanjb]

They should have made a sequel a few years after I love this movie I don't know why it's taking so long to make a Dick Tracy sequel but he is getting older. Love to see new movie.

[@TrillgataQ]

This is fascinating

[@jackdearman5880]

Copyright laws is some bullshit.

[@ricarleite]

It's not copyright law. This has nothing to do with copyright law. It's the terms of the contract that he signed when he optioned the character.

[@vinnym5607]

It's not copyright. He's being a dick about the rights. He's not going to do anything with them.

[@marckaldreibaccay5440]

Weekly wackadadoos assemble!

[@Pighill]

Decoder Ring brought me here.

[@craigrussell3062]

Man, James Dean and Marilyn Monroe were so smart to die young

[@okjoe5561]

Leonard Maltin is the best actor of the group. Yes I said it...

[@ThorinOakenshieldGSD2023]

Please do this. A release to streaming movie, launching a TV series would be wonderful. Just keep an element of comic book in it.

[@Aivottaja]

Now this is how you hold on to movie rights without ruining the brand. Sony should learn from this if they can't cobble a Spider-Man movie together.

[@BobBrinkman]

Without ruining the brand? By holding onto it out of spite for over thirty years until its presence in modern pop-culture barely resonates? He has thoroughly devalued the brand by making sure nobody under 40 even cares who Dick Tracy is. Sure, I'd go see another Dick Tracy movie, but I'm hardly the target audience for a Hollywood blockbuster. Nope, he has well and truly killed it.

[@Aivottaja]

@@BobBrinkman Beatty has rights only to live action movies. If they wanted, they could make animated shows, video games etc.

[@BobBrinkman]

@@Aivottaja wrong. He sued Tribune media to stop their planned TV series and owns all television and movie rights. Yes, comic books can be made (the last was a lackluster series in 2018). Video game tech at the time of the movie was in a pretty poor state but, had a game been successful, that certainly might have helped. But, instead, Beatty has destroyed the value of the property by actively working to prevent movie and television adaptations (including animated). ,

[@Aivottaja]

@@BobBrinkman Oh. Then I take back all I said in the original comment. Beatty pretty much has sabotaged the DT brand while hoarding the rights and doing nothing with them. I didn't know his rights extended to anything but live action movies. I stand corrected. I mean, assuming video games were exempt, they could probably do an awesome game. But even if that were possible, it would feel incomplete when the character itself would be mostly Beatty's hostage. I hope the rights revert back after Beatty kicks the bucket (which probably isn't too long ahead, given his age). That is, unless it will all just go to his inheritors who would just keep on sitting them as well, expecting a ludicrous sum of money to give them up.

[@BobBrinkman]

@@Aivottaja yeah. The worst part is that he hasn’t been punishing the studio who killed his planned trilogy, but the company that made his movie possible in the first place. It is estimated that those rights were worth about $100 million or so. It is a real shame. The planned tv series might have revitalized the character to the point where we might’ve gotten a legacy sequel to the movie by now.

[@kamdan2011]

25:11 You’re So Vain should be playing here.

[@kennethrussell1158]

Has everyone in Hollywood gone nuts?

[@luisrizo8813]

For all the Blankies; also, can't believe he actually did this...a second time.

[@vaccumsealed]

Big fan BIIIIIIIIIIIG fan of the 1990 film. Own it on 3 formats and have the poster of Beatty in a tommy gun toting silhoutte all nicely framed on my wall. Hes always wanted to get a 2nd picture done, and the 1990 film was originally slated for a trilogy, especially after competing with Batman from the yr prior. Sadly, part of the Disney Studios where much of it was filmed, burned down. In addition, Warrens always had some legal stipulations with the characters rights, but I LOVED the vibrance of color in that movie as well as the old timey music of the early 20th century.

[@BobBrinkman]

I did enjoy the Beatty film, but he should've given up on this Quixotic quest decades ago.

[@ThorinOakenshieldGSD2023]

Worth crowd funding if needed.

[@julianhermanubis6800]

Warren Beatty is pulling a 1994 "Fantastic Four" here. 😆 I like Beatty as an actor and thought his movie version of "Dick Tracy" was a lot of fun, but maybe it's time to let someone else have the rights and try another adaption. You could do a lot with a Dick Tracy film that was more serious (but not too serious).

[@johnwilliams3447]

This is fun 😂😅😊

[@telophasemusic]

Mr Sunday Movies wasn't kiddin!

[@jrgnsntjf]

Tony Martin would be mystified by this gritty tete a tete.

[@arthurl7493]

I’m not high but am I?

[@CubanB47]

Who's here after watching the Patrick (H) Willems video on the most bonkers comic book movie ever made?

[@Bimfirestarter]

If he actually does a new Dick Tracy movie, that would....well, I love comic books largely because of the impact the 1990 movie had on me as a kid. I was obsessed b4 I even saw the movie, on finding out it was based on comic books. If Warren Beatty manages to make a new Dick Tracy movie ...man, I'd love that! Would Danny Elfman return to score? Is that even right? How could he one-up the original 1990 score, though? It'd be cool to have cameos from some of the original actors, too

[@IsmailofeRegime]

There's probably zero chance it'll happen. I doubt Beatty has the same clout he did in 1990 to get so many big-name actors involved, I doubt studio executives would sign on to it, I doubt Beatty would hire Elfman again (given the personal scandals Elfman's been accused of), and Beatty's perfectionism would probably derail it to oblivion even if none of the other factors I mentioned were issues.

[@lewisjarvis4360]

Does him talking to him self count as a sex??

[@525Lines]

At least it's not Reds.

[@kennethrussell1158]

Has everyone in Hollywood gone nuts?😊

[@Jevababy25]

Omg I think he’s teasing to do Tracy 2, but a real drama. We’ve been waiting 30 years!

[@vinnym5607]

He might be trying but no one's allowing him to because his last few movies have been expensive bombs.

[@ke8952]

My eyes are bleeding! Maso, what did you make me watch?!?

[@defrank1870]

I'd enjoy a CGI version with him deaged. Bring Madonna back too

[@Lanarch]

This wonderful XDDDDDDDDDDD

[@davishall307]

Doesn’t feel real and yet it is

[@matthewbauman6358]

Ishtar 2, please! set it in space!

[@MrJohnlennon007]

3 2 3 4 4 2 3 AND

[@MrJohnlennon007]

3 2 3 4 4 2 3 AND THESE MEN ARE PAWNS

[@anthonyruby2668]

What would you even do with a Dick Tracy movie? Popeye could easily adapt to be a cargo container ship sailor or navy in the 2030s

[@captlazer5509]

Ben Mankiewicz as Flat Top. I can see it.

[@muziktrkr]

Netflix series coming.

[@ChuckingDice]

ThIs is so bizarre to watch. Tracy played by Beatty critiquing Beatty. Bizarre, but borders on genius. Just do these instead of a movie or series.

[@sofubisamurai]

Caravan of garbage sent me here

[@SayAhh]

25:11 any lip-readers here?

[@vinnym5607]

All this bs just yo keep Disney from streaming it. Just great.

[@bobbybloodfeastin308]

This is god awful. What am I watching?!

[@dredd1981]

Come on, do another movie or tv series or sell the rights to someone who will!!!

[@codycoyote6912]

Disappointing. Watched this immediately after the old Maltin interview but found it strained and contrived. Maltin's seemed clever by comparison. Some things are best left in the past.

[@PatBowers313]

Please just let go Beatty. We want a new Dick Tracy movie and you're obviously not going to do it because either 1 - You make it, and it's terrible 2 - Someone else makes it, it does great, and people are mad at you that you couldn't do this for the first movie

[@ricarleite]

This is a Dementia Simulator. This is how it feels.

[@Dkad]

But... why desperately keeping the rights to a character that you don't do anything with... ?

[@humblebugg5270]

Because if somebody ever does want to do something then they will have to pay beatty

[@Dkad]

@@humblebugg5270 that makes sense, but isn't it simply and purely a douchebag move then ? =)

[@aimeeinkling]

We asked that about The Fantastic Four for YEARS.

[@MrJohnlennon007]

He’s wanted to do a sequel for 30 years.

[@beemop]

Spite

[@nekrophiliak]

So he can produce any old crap and retain the rights? Just like 1990 then.

[@Voicedude]

This is Beatty preparing for his role in the biopic about Joe Biden....

[@F4m1LyGuy10]

The fact that you tried to make this political tells us everything we need to know about you.

[@Voicedude]

@@F4m1LyGuy10 Oh, I guarantee you have got it 100% wrong! 🤣Also, ZERO Sense of humor. #Triggered

[@playwme3]

I’d watch that….

[@randomquentin]

@@F4m1LyGuy10I mean I supported him but he old. cant really deny that no matter what party you are in

[@TroyBaugh-wu7ek]

This is utter, weird brilliance. I also love that it was made exclusively to keep Beatty's rights to the character, which is the correct idea. As a man of an older Hollywood, I'm sure he senses (on some level or other) the truth about movies in the 2020s: That there is NOBODY working for the major studios today that is at all capable of making a movie or TV series about the character without utterly desecrating it. Can you imagine what the kind of assholes who did the Rae Star Wars or Netflix Lord of the Rings would do to Chester Gould's stalwart hero? As a lifelong Tracy fan myself, I hope Beatty holds the rights until Hollywood is reduced to a smoking crater in WW3.

[@handthroat3867]

Free the rights pls

[@whackedoutwrestlingpodcast1404]

This special was the last needed, it moved the rights past 2027-when Dick Tracy is public domain and anyone can use him for anything.