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I’m a pretty constant defender of the Mark Steven Johnson Daredevil movie. Hell, it could have been worse – it could have been Ghost Rider. Wait… let me be entirely accurate:

I’m a constant defender of Johnson’s Director’s Cut: it’s enormously superior to the original studio-forced theatrical release, Affleck is actually rather good in the role and shouldn’t have avoided the possibility of a franchise post-release, the sub-plots returned to the film (including one involving Coolio!) are worth your time and not some tacky-add-ons, the ‘darker’ slant Johnson takes is very much welcomed, Jennifer Garner is hot as hell and Colin Farrell isn’t in it enough to poison the screen like he normally does! What can I say? I liked it. It’s no Batman Begins but…

… Imagine if Daredevil did get a Batman Begins style “reboot” though? Hmmm? IESB.net sat down with Fox chairman, Tom Rothman to discuss such a subject. Make the jump with me…

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.

Directors with genuine vision don’t want to work with Fox, Mr Rothman. Because you stab them in the back, leave them for dead and rape their visions with such a degree of force that they can only but limp on to the screen come the release date! Sorry… it’s true!

I’d love to see another Daredevil movie. I would especially like to see another one with Affleck / Garner / Favreau / Pantiliano on board (so shoot me!) – never going to happen though, I know that! Fox have just burnt me too often lately with their handling of certain properties or talents for me to give them the benefit of the doubt about this potential reboot.

Your thoughts?

Posted on Friday, October 3rd, 2008 at 6:20 pm under Movie News by Gazz.
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