Emboldened by the success of X-Men: First Class, Fox has taken another step closer to getting their Daredevil reboot off the ground. (Stop and ponder how First Class was raced into production, for good or bad, and then how long this has taken. I can’t believe it’s the same studio, frankly.)
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Brad Caleb Kane has been hired to write the screenplay for David Slade’s Daredevil. But it won’t be any straight-up Daredevil origin story/reboot. Kane will be adapting Frank Miller’s seminal Born Again. You may remember this was originally bandied about as the sequel to Mark Steven Johnson’s Daredevil, but never came to be.
It’s an interesting approach, echoing what they did with First Class — acknowledge the existence of the other movie, but then move on into new territory. Kane is apparently a huge Daredevil fan, which will undoubtedly help reinvent the character for the big screen. (Let’s hope he isn’t one of twenty screenwriters, and then we’ll get something that has some passion and loyalty to its source.)
It’s funny, isn’t it? Daredevil the series wasn’t doing so hot, so Marvel handed him to Frank Miller to play with. Daredevil the movie character is now in a similarly lame predicament, and now it falls on a Miller storyline and a Miller fan to try and resurrect the franchise. Can they do it?
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I don’t care how they do it, just that they do it. I enjoyed the original Daredevil film, and thought it received unfair scrutiny during and after its release. The director’s cut is a far different movie in some ways, so it is nice to see that the Man without Fear may get another film. The fact that they are using Born Again as a template is very assuring.
This is the movie that really makes me wonder how long the “options” on these Marvel films last for. I thought it was 5 years between films tops or the rights revert back to Marvel, but it’s been 8 years since Daredevil and at least one more before we’ll see it on-screen. So is it 10 years between films? That doesn’t seem right given how rapidly X-Men: First Class was jammed through production presumably to avoid loss of movie rights.
Or maybe it’s different depending on the franchise, I suppose. The less popular/marketable Daredevil gets a 10 year “gap” while the more well-known X-Men it’s only 5 or whatever.
“It’s funny, isn’t it? Daredevil the series wasn’t doing so hot, so Marvel handed him to Frank Miller to play with. Daredevil the movie character is now in a similarly lame predicament, and now it falls on a Miller storyline and a Miller fan to try and resurrect the franchise. Can they do it?”
No, it really isn’t funny or weird or anything, as the first film leaned pretty heavily on Miller’s stories as well, with entire sequences being taken directly from the page. Also, what does Kane being a big Miller fan have to do with anything? I think everyone that’s adapted a Miller story/property has said that they’re a big Miller fan, but sometimes the films are questionable. Miller himself was a huge Will Eisner fan, and you see how “The Spirit” turned out.
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