Now, this might look suspiciously similar to something we covered earlier this year: being a story about a man who hides his face in order to fight crime.
. . .unfortunately, Peyton Westlake (Liam Neeson) is no Lamont Cranston and Darkman is a very, very different animal from The Shadow in many ways, some of which will become obvious as we go on. However, Darkman does owe its existence to The Shadow, as the original intention of writer and director Sam Raimi was to make a film based around The Shadow or Batman. Without the ability to do either, he decided to create his own superhero with the help of older brother Ivan, Chuck Pfarrer, and Daniel and Joshua Goldin in writing the script that would become Darkman.
