Dick Tracy (comic strip)/Trivia


 * Development Hell: The film switched studios, writers, and directors multiple times, especially since Beatty refused to make the film realistic and gritty, and eventually helmed the film himself. Beatty hoped to make a sequel, but Disney had no interest after the film didn't pull the kind of numbers Batman did despite an all-out marketing blitz. The film rights to the property have been in legal battle for the last twenty years as Beatty and The Tribune Co. have continued to try to stake their claim to it, with Beatty finally winning in March 2011. He hopes to finally make a follow-up to the film, but has not indicated when he would begin pre-production or a script.
 * Hey, It's That Guy!:
 * Dustin Hoffman is Mumbles.
 * Mandy Patinkin is 88 Keys.
 * James Caan and Catherine O'Hara (Home Alone's Kate McAllister) have uncredited cameos as rival mob bosses in the scene where Big Boy unites the gangs of the city.
 * Dick Van Dyke is D.A. Fletcher.