When Warren Beatty won the long, dragged-out series of lawsuits to retain the rights to Dick Tracy, attorneys for the actor-director continued to avow that Beatty still had all sorts of plans for reviving the character, despite the fact that he hasn’t acted in a film since 2001’s Town And Country nor directed one since 1998’s Bulworth. So many people (okay, me) assumed that it was a somewhat selfish move to keep Dick Tracy away from its original rights-holders—and best-case scenario, an attempt to prevent them from licensing the property for which Beatty has such a strong personal affection to some other filmmaker who might actually do something with it. Not so, according to Beatty, who spent most of his recent Q&A at the Hero Complex Film Festival (which opened with a screening of the 1990 film) discussing his plans for the sequel he’s long promised, really.