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Joe Carnahan's Adaptation of 'Daredevil' Not Looking Likely Now

by Ethan Anderton
August 14, 2012
Source: Twitter

Even though a trade between Marvel and 20th Century Fox to let the latter studio keep the rights to Daredevil if the former was allowed to use certain Fantastic Four characters like Galactus and Silver Surfer sounded good, apparently it wasn't in the cards. Shortly after the story broke, another story surfaced that Fox wasn't willing to make the trade, wasn't in a hurry to get Daredevil off the ground and just might let the character revert back to Marvel in October. This seems even more likely now that director Joe Carnahan has took to Twitter and corroborated with the report that his Daredevil reboot may not happen.

The Smokin' Aces and A-Team director took to Twitter to say:

"Think my idea for a certain retro, red-suited, Serpico-styled superhero went up in smoke today kids. We shall see. Time is NOT on anyone's side."

Well, that's a bummer. Carnahan's take was said to be a "Frank Miller-esque, hardcore 70's thriller," and that's exactly what the character needs to help us forget the horrid Ben Affleck adaptation entirely. Of course, with that dark of a take on a comic book character that already failed once is a big risk for Fox. Movies.com has a great proposal for a film based on the Born Again storyline from a script that has already been written, but it sounds like we'll be waiting awhile for something to happen with Daredevil.

If it were about 15 years ago, this would have no problem getting off the ground as darker, stranger comic book flicks like Spawn and Darkman got off the ground. But now there's this expectation that films have to perform just as well as the family friendly Marvel properties, especially after the huge success of The Avengers, and that's the kind of success the studio wants to replicate. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

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From around the web:

http://madeofhells.tumblr.com/ Triangle Dimes

I was hoping that with Marvel concentrating on Avengers related shit that all these smaller heroes could be handed off and given weirder, more interesting movies. There's a lot of cool stuff that can be done with Daredevil. Similarly, I'm really hoping to see a new Punisher one that takes on some of the amazing, dark storyarcs like the one where he takes on some Eastern European sex traffickers.
Cs

I know that the last daredevil movie wasn't beloved by fans, it was still very successful. I wouldn't say it failed. I actually enjoyed. Of course the director's cut is much better than the original release.
- http://www.facebook.com/chris.groves.507 Chris Groves
  
  Yep, it's unfortunate. The Director's Cut was a legitimate effort at making a good film, it's the only version that should exist.
http://movieviral.com Daniel Koelsch

Good, Marvel is getting back another property.
http://www.facebook.com/chris.groves.507 Chris Groves

The more characters that Marvel gets the rights back to, the better. Maybe THEY'LL end up producing Carnahan's version of the film instead of Fox. The Affleck movie wasn't good...but I recently saw the Director's Cut for the first time. I am floored by any reasoing that had the studio going with the theatrical cut. Niether version is a very good movie...but the Director's Cut is a much much stronger effort and is the only version of the movie that should have been seen.
http://www.facebook.com/chris.groves.507 Chris Groves

Any information on when the various and currently inactive Marvel characters have their film rights revert back to Marvel? I would imagine that characters like Blade and The Punisher would have to be fairly soon.
- Jericho
  
  Punisher is under Marvel Knights...which is where they go when Marvel cant make it look good....
Lamar

I liked Ben Affleck as Daredevil....please don't hurt me. Now that that's out of the way just give Daredevil back to Marvel please.
- http://madeofhells.tumblr.com/ Triangle Dimes
  
  It's okay, it came out during a period of inexplicable Ben Affleck hate. I think we've all sobered up now and realized he isn't, in fact, the worst actor in the world and a terrible human being deserving constant ridicule.
SERPICO

Affleck was cool as Daredevil especially since at the time, most superhero flicks were wack anyway. However, this is an F**&^KING TRAGEDY!! The Sidney Lumet 70's style is the only way to go. I mean that is original. They should even find a way to shoot it using film if it's not dead. Otherwise Daredevil will seem pretty generic. This is such a damn tragedy. I still hope Affleck does Justice League though.