Daredevil REBOOT

DavidPla · 10-03-2008, 12:30 PM

Looks like a reboot (ala The Incredible Hulk) is on the way for Daredevil. Now I was actually a fan of the 2003 movie (especially the Director's Cut) but.. the new thing in Hollywood right now is reboot so we'll see.

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IESB: One of the brands that has made Fox a lot of money is Marvel. Recently, there was a reboot of the Hulk, which was alright, but I think it was mainly to get it ready for the Avengers film coming up. But there are two Marvel properties you control amongst others, Daredevil and Elektra. Both films didn't do too well but...reboot maybe?

Tom Rothman: A Daredevil, to use your words, reboot, is something we are thinking very seriously about.

IESB: Soon?

TR: Soon?

IESB: I have to ask.

TR: You've lost a lot a weight now Robert and you are going to live for a long time, this is the movie business, nothing is soon.

IESB: But there aren't any issues rights wise you would have to look into?

TR: No. We've got all the rights. And yes, I think that the thing the 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.

IESB: And Iron Man proved that a second tier hero done right can make lots of money.

TR: Correct, but these are good properties and I am actually encouraged by both the Hulk experience and particularly by what they did with Batman, after the relative disappointment of what the last Batman was [1990's incarnations].

IESB: Would you do Daredevil as dark as The Dark Knight?

TR: 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.

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Steve_Tk · 10-03-2008, 02:40 PM

It must be nice being able to say "well, it can't get any worse".

Tim Glover · 10-03-2008, 03:09 PM

With the success of Batman Begins-TDK etc...expect alot of these comic book thingies to 'need' a makeover.

& try and garner the same success.

Greg_S_H · 10-03-2008, 10:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Tim Glover

& try and garner the same success.

Haha, I get it. Jennifer Garner.

Tim Glover · 10-04-2008, 12:10 AM

....can't get anything over Greg!

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TonyD · 10-12-2008, 02:18 PM

"TR: You've lost a lot a weight now Robert and you are going to live for a long time, this is the movie business, nothing is soon."

who is robert.

Jose Martinez · 10-12-2008, 03:03 PM

I liked the director's cut of Daredevil too but I really like the idea of rebooting Marvel properties so they can be done right so we can actually have a Marvel Universe. If they are actually serious about rebooting Daredevil then either Kevin Smith and/or Frank Miller should be attached to the project. As for other Marvel properties that definitely could use a reboot is Fantastic Four. Again, someone who actually knows what a superhero movie should be like should be attached to it.

Zack Gibbs · 10-12-2008, 04:43 PM

Well it's still a Fox property so it would still be "seperate" from the rest of the Marvel universe, like X-Men, Spider-Man, etc.-- even if rebooted.

Jose Martinez · 10-12-2008, 05:09 PM

Oh, OK. I thought Marvel owned all the rights now and the studios are just distributing them.

Greg_S_H · 10-12-2008, 05:14 PM

I wouldn't want to see Miller anywhere near it if he would make it in the Sin City/Spirit style he seems to favor right now.

todd s · 10-12-2008, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Zack Gibbs

Well it's still a Fox property so it would still be "seperate" from the rest of the Marvel universe, like X-Men, Spider-Man, etc.-- even if rebooted.

I still think if this is still true. That Marvel when licensing out their properties to have a clause that allows the use of the character and places in other movies.