Our friends over at
IESB recently cornered 20th Century Fox co-chairman Tom Rothman and quizzed him about a potential
Daredevil reboot. This is what the man had to say for himself:
"A
Daredevil, to use your words, reboot, is something we are thinking very seriously about. The thing
The Incredible Hulk showed although, it did what it did, is that it is possible, that if you really do it right the audience will give you a second chance. That it is possible. And I think that you see that when they did
Batman Begins, the first Nolan movie, that you can have made some mistakes along the way or movies that the audience wasn't that crazy about and then given the proper amount of time and the right creative vision behind it, you can, to use your word, reboot. Would it be as dark? I don't know because what it really needs is, it needs a visionary at the level that Chris Nolan was. It needs someone, it needs a director, honestly, who has a genuine vision. What we wouldn't do is just do it for the sake of doing it. Right? What we try to do is to get a creative engine for it, that really had a great vision for it, that's what we would look for."
To read more of
IESB's interview with Tom Rothman,
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i know what you're getting at Diaigma, and you're right. DD doesn't seem to have the same pull as the other more famous characters. but if you make a great movie like Alien, Predator, Star Wars etc. then people will want to see more, right? you don't have to know what you're watching to enjoy it. just because it isn't a well known franchise doesn't mean anything. if they make the movie "totally super awesome"... then people will watch it and want a sequel.
And I can't see DD having the "Nolan" treatment. It's a fun comic character and all, but there's nothing that screams "franchise" about it, not on the level of Batman, Spider-man, or Iron Man, I mean. I would be surprised if they can pull it off.
But really now, a darker tone? isn't that what shitted up the last DD movie? I mean it works fine for Batman because you wanna know why? Batman has always had a dark tone, but DD not so much, he was always this bright red demon-costumed blind dude that kicked ass but it wasn't that dark because marvel comics aren't dark, they are mostly bright, they contrast everything to make it seem fun and exciting for the reader.
DC on the other hand has always been dark and can pull it off with many of its movies,
but the realistic tone can get annoying with other movies if not pulled off right.
My belief is that Marvel should keep its whole bright and wonderous style that has spawned some pretty good films (Spider-man 1, Iron Man, Incredible Hulk, Punisher) And though some did fail (F4, THE hulk, SM3, DD) there is still potential if they stay away from the Dark Side (Yes I know crappy Star Wars refference)
When I use to read the Marvel Knights Daredevil's. I could see Brad Pitt playing both alter ego's. Murdock is a ladies man despite his disability. Pitt would be perfect on all levels.
Style wise I would like it to be a combination of Sin City, Kill Bill and of course a similar adult tone that the last two Batman films have.
Maybe I'll have those wishes granted. Then again maybe not.
Anyway that's my two cents.
Also, can't wait for Doctor Strange, and Antman, and Cap America.
I liked Daredevil when I first saw it, of course I was 13, as I grew older and watched it again and again, I became more aware of it's shit-factor, and I now see that it was one of the poorest choices made by Marvel. Daredevil is only great (excluding Kirby/Lee's originals obviously) when Frank Miller writes him. If you can get someone to stay close to that feel and mythos, and that version of Elektra (or maybe no Elektra at all in a reboot) then you'd have something worth watching.
However, like Space101 said, this reboot detracts from accelerating the production of films like Dr. Strange and Ant Man, which are on the outside edges of Marvel's field of interest (though still moving into it, albeit slowly).
But the main thing is, when a franchise fails, you shouldn't continue it. Spider-Man didn't fail in my opinion, it just hit a low point. X3 failed. Daredevil failed. Ghost Rider FAILED. (3pic fail) Punisher was not a bad film, I don't know why they're rebooting it, but whatever. But we as fan's are presented with the gift of the studio trying again to do it right. That's the great thing about Marvel, is that they're willing to try things again, differently, in order to get them right, which is pretty much unheard of in the history of film. Most people are content to let their shitty movies sit there and soil the name of the characters they are based on (Superman iii and iv, the first two Harry Potter films).
I say the more Marvel tries, the closer they'll get to a version that the majority of True Believers can be happy with.