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It’s Daredevil, the movie named after the sight-challenged hero played originally by Ben Affleck. Regency is mounting the remake with former News Corp No. 2 Peter Chernin producing. Writing the redo is screenwriter David Scarpa, who scripted The Day The Earth Stood Still for Fox, which will distribute Daredevil 2.0 or whatever it’s going to be called. The reason this is happening is simple: Hollywood studios with Marvel superheroes need to keep reinventing these Marvel movie franchises or the rights revert back to Disney-based Marvel. Fortunately, the properties are as resilient as the indestructible superheroes themselves.
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Dude – comic books are getting so overplayed.
Can the Electra reboot be far behind?
Is there any way Disney could soon get the rights to Daredevil and Fantastic Four? Or can Fox just keep restarting the franchises as long as they want, forever – more or less – keeping those characters from Disney?
Thank God for these contracts! DAREDEVIL is awesome! Can’t wait!
Finally, there going to remake it! the first film was ok, but if they stick to the Marvel Knights comicbook style (in scripts and costumes)and leave Ben Affleck out of the film, Daredevil’s reboot will allow Daredevil to regain the respect, honar, and glory he trully deserves!
What sheer genius! Remake a movie about a blind superhero that bombed the first time and then get the genius who wrote that masterpiece box office smash The Day the Earth Stood Still which didn’t exactly go straight to DVD, but might as well have.
Einstein would be proud. Apparently insanity is not the only state of mind that requires doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, but so too is Hollywood film producing.
What happens when this fails, too. Peter Chernin and David Scarpa get to remake Plan 9 from Outer Space? Glen or Glenda, or how about Santa Clause versus the Martians?
it’s appalling. the day the earth stood still was one of the worst films i’ve ever seen. hideously bad. a waste.
to Walker:
according to imdb.com, Daredevil made 45 million in its opening weekend in the US and over 100 million in the US during its theatrical run–that’s not counting worldwide or dvd releases or action figures or anything! How do you define a “bomb”?
I wasn’t a huge fan of the first Daredevil movie…. but I loved Daredevil when he appeared in “the trial of the incredible hulk”!
The goal at the time generally was that domestic box office would roughly equal the studio’s costs in production and distribution. By that standard, Daredevil was, um, a disappointment.
Fox is hoping the fanboy base for the character is strong enough to at least help them generate interest in the reboot.
Other reasons for a Daredevil? Are there other ancillaries and revenue streams Fox retains rights for by churning out another flick? Is there maybe an F-U Disney aspect to this as well?
BTW I was only half-kidding about the Electra reboot. The problem with the Electra film was pretty much the same as the Catwoman film from Warners – great character, less-than-stellar execution.
Actually Daredevil cost in the region of $78 million and had a global return of $179,179,718. $102 million of that being in North America.
That is all before the DVD and Directors Cut DVD.
I wouldn’t call that a bomb
mst3k or Rifftrax has already accomplished those remakes. fantastic…
Ugh, the first “Daredevil” film was hardly worth the two hour commitment. Appreciate your insight into the reason these Marvel super hero reboots keep being planned.
Whatever the motive, it’s a great idea. Daredevil is Marvel’s Batman, potentially. There’s a lot more to be done with him than that mediocre 1.0.
By the way, the same comic book writer genius that remade Batman in the comic books and inspired Nolan’s work is the same guy who made Daredevil a gritty, compelling series – Frank Miller. Nuff said.
The should reboot the PUNISHER franchise.
Well, they’ve already rebooted it twice. I think they should just make a sequel to the last one, but make sure the script is good.
And they need to release it in the summer!
Everyone inside the studio knows the option was about to expire, so they had to make a move or loose it, and Fox wasn’t going to come off looking like an ass as Daredevil is one of their only superheros left…
Hopefully they’ll get clever with this one … was not a fan of the Ben Affleck version or The Day the Earth Stood Still
But nobody liked it the first time.
When will Hollywood learn from the Incredible Hulk: if people aren’t curious enough to see it the first time, they ain’t gonna go see the reboot. Ang Lee’s Hulk grossed $132 million domestically, and the reboot grossed $134 – and because ticket prices were higher when the latter was released, that means a lot less people saw it in theaters than the first.
who cares? the incredible hulk kicked the angle lee version’s ass.
and now the hulk is going to be in the avengers!!
but i do see your point about all the ridiculous reboots hollywood is going through. I’m just saying that the incredible hulk was one of those rare exceptions to the reboot rule
Actually the Incredible Hulk was a success, as considered by Marvel studios and the film industry in gneral. Why do you think they, and fans, fought so long to try and keep hold of Edward Norton. (One fool at Marvel killed that, though Norton does himself few favours).
Would they have liked Incredible Hulk to make more money? OF course they would, but it was far better received by the pubilc around the wollrd, sold better on DVD & Blu-Ray and succeeded in both launching a sequel, whcih will go into production as soon as The Avengers (in all likelihood) makes a killing.
After Hulk you had one of Marvel’s better known heroes, perhaps 2nd best known after Spider-Man. So Marvel had the dilema of planning to make a massively expensive Avengers movie with 5 or so heroes, only 2 which your average movie-goer had really heard of; Hulk and Captain America. Captain America was a hard sell, internationally and even in America few people had really read the comics and he kinda looked like a clown. So now the anchor is a character who everyone knows, but now most people, after Aang Lee’s film didn’t like at all. Hence the reboot. People are far happier with Hulk now, Iron Man has been huge, so there’s less focus on the movie riding on Hulk’s shoulders so now even if Thor & Captain America don’t do great Iron Man is both well know n and very popular and Hulk is somebody people like again.
In other words the reboot worked and given how much people despised the first movie the second one’s gross was more than acceptable. Batman Begins didn’t make a whole more than Batman & Robin (ticket price increases etc) but was seen as a big success character redemption wise.
“Former News Corp No. 2 Peter Chernin producing”
Let’s face it, with a soul that far in hock, Stick, The Hand, and all of Hell’s Kitchen have no chance of redeeming this. Sorry, Matt.
How about they try telling actual stories with these characters instead of retelling the origin story with every movie. Pushing the franchise forward, making it vital, instead of starting it from scratch all over again. Something the second take on Hulk actually got right.
Yeah, this reeks of opportunism, and the first movie was pretty soulless as well. Chernin is known for having a bit of a tin ear when it comes to comics-to-film (he signed off on Bret Ratner getting paid 12 mil for X-Men 3 and TIM STORY to do FF???). Also Chernin could have BOUGHT Marvel when he was #2 at News Corp for a third of what Disney paid, but didn’t.
Hopefully the Marvel guys will have a lot of say this time around. Sounds like a lot of cooks in Hell’s Kitchen, to be sure. We’ll know the fate of this film the second they hire the director but that script for TDTESS was terrible.
Anyone would be batter then Ben Affleck, though Colin Farrell was quite good as bullseye.
Little hint: Wilson fisk was a big fat white guy!!!
All due respect to Michael Clarke Duncan kick ass actor but not exactly a big fat white guy.
It would be nice if they tried to follow the comics. For a change.
As a longtime fan of DD, I hope they can get him right this time. His blindness makes him vulnerable but his super sensitive hearing and touch and “radar sense” make him more than a hero. His relationship with The Hand and his partnership with Foggy lend humanity to this Hell’s Kitchen Hellion. Go Matt !
The reimagining of the classic DtESS was a terrible, bloated mess but that will pale in comaparison to trying to rebbot something that was a complete bomb before. WTF?
May I ask who will be playing in the starring role for this movie?
May I say this too, My idea of a “Super hero” is one who cannot be shot, stabbed, out fought, no matter who he/she comes across. If you are going to have a “Super Hero” then make him/her unstopable and truly “SUPER”
Because a character like that worked amazingly in “The Spirit”… oh, wait…
I’m keeping my fingers crossed that it’ll be Michael Weatherly from NCIS.
By the way, is it just me, or would DD make an awesome TV show? Courtroom drama meets kick-ass superhero antics…
Wow, after Scarpa delivers one of the most suck-butt reboot scripts in recent memory on DAY EARTH STOOD STILL, he is being given a big fat paycheck and another franchise… to ruin.
Next time people say the system isn’t broke, here’s your proof it is.
By “resilient” do you mean crap?
These guys really alienated the fan base with the original. If they’re smart, do a “Hulk” style reboot(brief origin story), with Frank Miller at the helm following the “Love and War” graphic novel.
Hollywood,
Daredevil is crime noir please get it right this time. Thank you.
David Scarpa? Jeez, if they want to punt it with no regards tp the end product just to keep the rights why don’t they just hire Roger Corman and be done with it.
So this is why 99% of all releases suck these days. ‘Cause the d-boys & girls would rather make a movie out of a 50-year-old board game or redo a terrible super hero franchise that flopped 5 years ago — didn’t anyone learn their lesson with The Hulk?? Have some vision people!
Nothing against Mr Chernin but why is this necessary. Dumbing down the film industry with another HERO big time special effects movie Isnt there something else you could do? Access to all types of stories and you rehash this garbage? You worked for the reincarnated Citizen Kane. God there must be stories within stories that you could turn into a drama maybe comdram
(Won’t happen but what a source he must be?)