Rumors and plans for a Daredevil reboot have been swirling for years now. We knew we’d get one eventually — Fox has to keep the rights to the character — so it was just a matter of the studio finally pulling the trigger.
It looks like today is that day. According to Variety, David Slade is in talks to direct a new Daredevil for Fox.
In an interesting twist of phrase, Fox says it won’t be a “reboot” but a “continuation” of the Mark Steven Johnson film that takes the character “in a new direction.” But we all know Affleck isn’t returning as Matt Murdock, and that they’re likely to bring back elements that were slayed in the original film. It is going to be a remake in every sense of the word.
However, words like “remake” and “reboot” are becoming poisonous buzzwords to the public, so I’m not surprised studios have begun to distance themselves from them. They should use the language of the comic book industry — it’s a new Daredevil run!
There’s no release date set, and no further information. Last we knew, David Scarpa was penning the script, although that could change with Slade’s involvement.
Slade is a better fit for Daredevil than Wolverine. (Consolation prize?) I’m tentatively interested, and will hold off premature hopes for a real portrayal of Elektra.
*Yes, I changed the headline. I’m going on four hours of sleep and apparently that causes me to translate even well-known superhero nicknames into the most pedantic English imaginable.
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Elisabeth Rappe, If David Slade, can make a better, Daredevil film than either, Fox’s DD, or Trial Of The Incredible Hulk, with Rex Smith as DD, I am all for it. Also, someone other than Affleck would be an improvement too. I would skip any lengthy…intro, ala Marvel Entertainment’s The Incredible Hulk. Hopefully there will not be a mass of subplots. Matt becomes DD, Rise and Fall of Jack Murdock, Matt meets Elektra, DD fights Kingpin, DD Fights Bullseye. Daredevil should meet Elektra, and then there could be flashbacks of them in college together. Instead of Kingpin and Bullseye, the main adversary should be…The Hand Ninja Clan, with the Kingpin in the background for Daredevil 2! Though, I guess The Hand, will likely be saved for…The Wolverine.
I feel really cynical about this. It was one thing to reboot that Batman franchise. Those movies went off the rails after several movies. Fox NEVER tried to get this right, and paid the price for it. I’m a long time daredevil fan, and I’ve never sat through that fox piece of shit in its entirety.
I feel really cynical about this. It was one thing to reboot that Batman franchise. Those movies went off the rails after several movies. Fox NEVER tried to get this right, and paid the price for it. I’m a long time daredevil fan, and I’ve never sat through that fox piece of shit in its entirety. They never tried to make this movie properly, and now we’re suppose to buy this bullshit? Fuck you Fox!
I’ve never managed to make it through either. Once he had that schoolyard fight with Elektra, I just checked the hell out.
Wow…here I thought the limit of the “in perpetuity” clause on these superhero films was 5 years (IE that you had to have a film in production every 5 years or less or it drops back to Marvel).
I thought for sure Daredevil had reverted back to Marvel by now.
Everyone knows Fox buttfucks their comic book franchises (with the possible exception of the first two X Men films). The best thing that can happen to Daredevil is to revert back to Marvel. The original was just an embarassment.
I still don’t know what to think of Slade. His music video work was always solid, and Hard Candy is great, but 30 Days of Night was a complete piece of shit and I refuse to watch any of those Twilight abominations.
That said, anyone is an improvement over Mark Steven Johnson, and if they can get a solid script and recast well this could actually work out.
Fox seems to be taking their Marvel licenses a little more seriously lately, letting Aronofsky and Vaughn do seemingly what they want with the X-Men franchises.
Though, I’m a little surprised Marvel/Disney hasn’t ponied up the cash to try and buy their characters back.
Leave Elektra til the second movie. She’s been in more movies than DD has. In fact, making that just-as-shitty Elektra movie may have extended the option on DD?
DD doesn’t work on screen unless you outright state he has supernatural powers (I think the comics, Miller at least, drifted in that direction). IIRC in the movie DD defeats Bullseye in their final scrap by hearing a high-powered rifle-shot coming and moving Bullseye’s hands into the path of the bullet. It was a little hard on the old suspension of disbelief. Built-in (Natural/Under-utilized?) Radar is fairly awesome, but not quite that awesome. It has to be something other than sound/echo-location standing in for sight/light-based senses. Radioactively mutated or otherwise (again, Miller drift makes it all uncertain).
GeneJacket – The main reason Marvel hasn’t ponied up to try and buy their characters back (and supposedly they have at least made offers) is that it’d probably cost Disney/Marvel about as much money as it cost Disney to buy the entire Marvel company just to get Spider-Man and the X-Men back (Or at least half as much…probably $1 billion+).
That, and Fox and Sony are not going to be inclined to entertain offers unless they’re absolutely ludicriously high: It would be an embarrassment for them to relinquish the rights and then have Disney/Marvel turn around and make a superior/higher-grossing film using the same characters. Basically Fox and Sony are in a rare position where they can at least somewhat stymie a competitor just by holding on to what they already have. I believe the head of Fox already said that he’d allow the X-Men to become a cheapo straight-to-DVD franchise before he’d ever relinquish the rights back to Marvel.
Sounds good.
What, really? I wonder how he could’ve moved before the bullet reached him, after hearing the bullet coming, when bullets move FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF FUCKING SOUND.
Either Daredevil has more superpowers I’m not aware of, or I made the right call in drinking ’til I forgot that stupid movie.
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