Daredevil: Reboot

[dnwilliams]

The Daredevil reboot is coming, and it's coming from David Slade, director of 30 Days of Night, Hard Candy and Twilight.

Mark Steven Johnson directed Ben Affleck in 2003s Daredevil, whilst the burgeoning superhero movie trend was still young. Despite it's critical mauling, and it's status as 'one of those movies that made people stop liking Ben Affleck' it received a spinoff starring Mrs Ben Affleck and paved the way for the director to ruin another Marvel character - Ghostrider. But with the reboot craze in full swing, and every studio in possession of the rights to Marvel characters clinging onto those rights for dear life lest Disney haul in a load of money by letting people who know what they're doing make the movies, the Ben Affleck Daredevil movies may soon be a distant memory.

The true injustice in all of this? Ben Affleck likes Daredevil. Very much. And he's directed two awesome crime movies. He was the man for the job all along! Alas, that ship has sailed...



Source: Coming Soon

[Robert King AKA FrostedPeggs]

I'm gonna watch a Daredevil Reboot just because I love Marvel. (Affleck or otherwise)

[dnwilliams]

Dardevil's getting a reboot in the comics soon too, complete change of tone. It'll clash with the movie's take I imagine, which is bound to go for the tone that;s been popular for the past 20 odd years.

[Sheridan Passell]

The movie is based on an old graphic novel (Frank Miller's Born Again), so I expect it'll take its tone largely from that.

[dnwilliams]

Oh yeah, definitely. It's not as though Fox has any need to sync up with what's happening at Marvel anyway.

[Robert King AKA FrostedPeggs]

That's true they could care less what Marvel is doing when they make a film. I just wish they would pick an era and stop mixing comics from the 50's and 60's with thier reboot comic from this decade.

[dnwilliams]

I really like the fact that they draw from multiple sources. Iron Man was an awesome movie because it drew on the original Stan Lee version and more modern stuff.

[Robert King AKA FrostedPeggs]

That is a great point. I guess the one I really hate is X-Men, don't get me wrong they were ok films, but I grew up reading the comics so I hated that. I don't kow probably just me.

[dnwilliams]

I grew up on the Fox cartoon and only really started getting the books after the movie had come out, at which point they were highly influenced by their cinematic counterpart, so my perspective is a little different. There are things I think they got very, very wrong (Rogues character, for example) and other things they better than any interpretation that came beforehand.

[Robert King AKA FrostedPeggs]

I had the old school comcis from like WW1 lol(you know the kind I shouldn't have been messing with) but I agree it was the characters. Like in the comics I read Kitty Pryde and Collosuss are supposed to have a thing for each other and be as old as Professor X, and they did do terrible with Rouge. I guess it is just one of those thing we have to deal with when it comes to cinema messing with what we know and like.