Warren Beatty Beats Out Tribune Company For Dick Tracy Rights

Despite the relative inactivity of the franchise in recent years, the character rights to Dick Tracy will continue to belong to Warren Beatty. Tribune Company, who owned the rights to the comic strip before giving them to Beatty to make the 1990 film Dick Tracy, sued Beatty back in 2005 in an effort to wrest back control of the franchise in court.

The Wrap spoke with Beatty’s lawyer Chuck Shepheard who explained that Tribune’s deal with Beatty “said that as long as Warren continued to make Dick Tracy programs, he would be able to keep the rights.

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