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It will be a continuation of the story started with the 2003 film starring Ben Affleck as the blind superhero. That film, which was based on the Marvel comic, grossed $179M worldwide. Chernin Entertainment is producing the new pic. Slade is no stranger to genre films, having directed last year’s Twilight film Eclipse and the vampire thriller 30 Days of Night.
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The original Daredevil films marked a real nadir in the comic book hero films. Just plain, excruciatingly awful. And I’m just talking about Ben Affleck’s chin dimple. We really don’t need any more, especially not from Fox.
From the studio that brought us THE A-TEAM / TOOTH FAIRY / THE HAPPENING / THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL / X-MEN 3 / WOLVERINE/
MAX PAYNE / 12 ROUNDS / DRAGONBALL / PERCY JACKSON / AND DAREDEVIL ETC. ETC.
I actually liked Daredevil a lot. I thought Colin Farrell was hysterical and even Ben Affleck was good. I wish they’d let Ben do the sequel, I think he’s grown a lot as an actor.
I thought they did a lot of stuff well in the movie, but Affleck was fair at best. It’s a mechanical complaint but I thought he was just too big to be daredevil. And angsty with a sense of justice is a little outside his range.
I don’t hear this from many people; most hated it, but I enjoyed it. Some of the effects are not well polished, but I liked just about everything else about it.
Is this another one like Ghost Rider, where the studio is mostly just making it to keep the rights from reverting back to Marvel/Disney?
Yes, we have a winner. Such a shame too because obviously Marvel would knock it out of the park with their own property. But I’ll give Fox the benefit of the doubt this time; After screwing up X-Men 3 & Wolverine royally, they seem to be taking the right steps with “First Class” and the “Wolverine” sequel will benefit with Darren Aronofsky helming.
So we can also look forward to a reboot of Elektra right? That was actually a more entertaining movie than Daredevil.
David’s a great director. Hard Candy was wonderful and he just directed a new ep of Breaking Bad. 30 Days of Night was not his fault, the director’s cut was a whole different movie.
I loved 30 Days of Night. Just curious — what’s different in the Director’s cut??
Well why not. The first movie was so good!
To paraphrase the great Groucho:
This film is a travesty. It’s a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.
I thought the rights already reverted back for a complete reboot of the franchise.
I was ready for a new cast and director 30 minutes into the first one.
Great news! I am A huge fan of Daredevil and even liked the first movie quite a bit. I would LOVE to see this become a franchise! Everyone needs to read Frank Miller’s DD v. PUNISHER and BORN AGAIN and MAN WITHOUT FEAR. Sooooo good. Okay, I’m off to find some DD back issues. Late!
Man Without Fear is my favourite – such a good series
Slade is fuckin’ good. If anyone can make Daredevil watchable it’s him.
I think the original Daredevil had so many elements of potential awesomeness, but almost none of them came through. Or that they at least worked against each other.
DAREDEVIL is one of my guilty pleasures. I’m not joking, I’ve seen that like five times. Including the Director’s Cut (which is actually a much better movie but not as much fun). David Slade ruined 30 Days of Night. But maybe he’ll do better this time…
DAMNIT!!! I became a fan of Daredevil after the movie. Not cause of the movie but cause I read Kevin Smith’s Daredevil comics after. After reading that comic I felt so bad for all the Daredevil fans. The comics are awesome! Great character. Last couple years Daredevil comics have had some of the best writers in the biz (bendis, brubaker). Was hoping the rights go back to Marve. SUCKS MAJOR BALLS that fox is going ahead on this. Just crossing my fingers and toes that Fox/ Rothman decide to shelve the project.
I believe that was Woody Allen. Get yer quotes right.
The first film failed for many reasons, not least of which the studio tried to make a (fairly) grounded script into the next SpiderMan, and that’s just not the nature of Daredevil’s world.
Big fan of the character and Slade’s work (Twilight notwithstanding). Hopefully they’ll let him do an R-rated Daredevil, or at least a hard PG-13.
I’m looking forward to this, though a little nervous that they refer to the film as a “continuation” in the press release, and not a “reboot.” Nothing short of starting from scratch will save this franchise.
I was nervous about it being a continuation, too, but Dark Horizons added the following and it sounds like great news:
“Further information came to light soon after suggesting this is more a reboot than a sequel as the storyline is said to be an adaptation of the critically acclaimed Frank Miller-written and David Mazzucchelli-illustrated Born Again run of the comic series.”
Agreed!! Daredevil should not have been CGI hopping/jumping/flying over rooftops, it looked horrible and it’s not what the character does.
Shame, because there was some potential in it.
Count me as a Slade fan. Loved Hard Candy. And although I’m not the demo for Twilight, he made it at least interesting. DD, I’m not so sure. Didn’t hate the first one but it wasn’t that great, either. Disturbed by this new one being a “continuation” and not a total revamp.
And DD is made for TV, character’s not interesting enough to hold a big-screen flick. He’s a LAWYER for God’s sake, it’s a natural.
Seeing as DD needs to be done as a hard bitten crime thriller in the mould of Miller & Bendis’s fine work, the best director for this woudl be funnily enough Ben Affleck
I thought the best part of the film was ben urick! Played by Joe Pantoliano
Like to see him back
I think this is a great move. 30 Days of Night is a really underrated film and Daredevil is a great character that got a bad movie adaptation. If they can cast a strong dramatic lead who won’t play it like a cartoon it could be Marvel’s Batman Begins. I think someone like Guy Peirce would be great.
Anyone who saw the director’s cut of the original knows the studio took a smart dark movie and tried to cut it into spiderman lite.
The first Daredevil failed for several reasons:
1)The mask and costume were terrible – the mask was too tight and only covered the top half of his face; the costume looked like he was going to a leather bondage disco.
2)Affleck’s physique. He’s built to be Superman or Captain America, but Daredevil always seemed physically more lithe and agile; Affleck seemed too bulky and lumbering. At one time Guy Pierce was considered for the role. They should’ve gone with him.
3)That godawful, overly choreographed meet-cute abortion of a fight scene on the playground with Jennifer Garner. My stomach seizes up just remembering it. What were they thinking?
4)Underwhelming villain. Bullseye just isn’t an iconic or exciting villain despite Colin Farrell’s game performance; Michael Clarke Duncan was surprisingly good as Kingpin, but he only got to cut loose in their fight scene toward the end — too little, too late.