Daredevil: The Reboot

[hairlesswookiee]

I think for Daredevil, more even than looks, you need someone with the acting range to play a really pitiful bastard, as DD was during the Miller run and beyond in the 80s. A guy who gets beat the f up on a physical, emotional, and spiritual level. Who falls, experiences real darkness, and gets pushed to the edge, but can keep coming back because at heart, he's a hero.

This screams Mr Belding

 

[hairlesswookiee]

What about Tahmoh Penickett from BSG as Matt Murdock???

 

[karamazov80]

Mr. Belding would work for me. Or possibly Mr. Belvedere.

 

[The Entity]

I was just watching an episode of Dexter earlier, and I think Michael C. Hall could be a good Daredevil/Matt Murdock.

 

[FLOSI]

I was just watching an episode of Dexter earlier, and I think Michael C. Hall could be a good Daredevil/Matt Murdock.

Not a bad idea! I can see that...

 

[-jay-]

Not a bad idea! I can see that...

Yeah so can i good call Ingo, Michael C. Hall would be great!

 

[hairlesswookiee]

Dexter is a good choice. He's already an established actor and he's got the build for a Daredevil character. Maybe just have him work on bulking up his upper body and he's Matt Murdock.

 

[karamazov80]

I guess Dexter could do it, but he would not be my first choice. He can obviously play a troubled character (he showed that in both Dexter and Six Feet Under). He's also in great physical shape. But frankly, I think his style/mannerisms are a little too wonky to play a Marvel hero. I also think people would have a hard time not thinking of him as Dexter at this point. "Hey, is Dexter gonna cut Kingpin's throat already or what?"

 

[BuddyGus]

What about Tahmoh Penickett from BSG as Matt Murdock???

My message is not to short...

 

[karamazov80]

Helo! Great choice. Somehow I missed Wookie's post before.

 

[Darklord Dave]

Michael C. Hall is too short and has a creepy vibe that isn't really right for Murdock. Helo is good choice or how about Justin Hartley from Smallville?

 

[CelticPredator]

Jackie Earle Haley. He plays everything now anyway...so why not?

 

[FLOSI]

Jackie Earle Haley. He plays everything now anyway...so why not?

The hair color works

 

[The Mike]

David Slade to Direct ‘Daredevil’ Reboot
Posted on Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

Don’t ever say Twilight didn’t do anything for people. Fresh off David Slade‘s $700 million dollar worldwide slaying with The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, the director of Hard Candy and 30 Days of Night has just signed on to helm a reboot of the Marvel character Daredevil for 20th Century Fox. David Scarpa, writer of The Last Castle and Fox’s The Day the Earth Stood Still, was reportedly hired to write a script last year, but that could be a thing of the past. Read more after the break.

Variety exclusively broke the news, and though Scarpa was reportedly hired in February 2010 to work on a script, The Hollywood Reporter says no writer has been attached. What’s interesting though is that Slade’s film will supposedly be a “continuation” of the material set forth in the 2003 film that starred Ben Affleck, just without the actor’s involvement.

With a director now aboard, it seems like Daredevil will be the next superhero movie out of Fox who currently has X-Men: First Class and The Wolverine lined up. Slade was in talks to direct the latter, but that job went to Darren Aronofsky.

I’m sure we’re all curious to see what Slade thinks of the original film and what he plans to do new this time around. And chances are, he’ll tell us, as he was famously open with Twilight fans when he was directing that film. Daredevil is a very difficult character to bring to screen, though, with his almost comic looking bright red costume and incredibly heightened senses, which seem difficult to represent visually. However, there is most definitely a way to translate it in a way that’s both true to the comic and also accessible to non-fans.

Do you have any ideas of how or what Slade can do to make this project something special? And what do you think he must avoid from the 2003 film?

 

[Devil_666]

Hollywood is rebooting/remaking films less than 10 years old, even if they were successful!? Classic.

*EDIT

Ok just saw in the article it's a sequel/continuation of the 2003 movie.

 

[DinoLast]

David Slade's Eclipse was a good movie, and it's the first Twilight film I really enjoyed. Daredevil the director's cut is still one of my favourite superhero films, so for me this is good news. I say stick close to the religious overtones, and keep it dark, and try to avoid the slapstick of Spider-man.

 

[LordAzrael]

Dexter is a good choice. He's already an established actor and he's got the build for a Daredevil character. Maybe just have him work on bulking up his upper body and he's Matt Murdock.

I think he might be better as the villain - he'd be a great bullseye.

 

[lord-22]

yeah !!!!!!! Dardevil is back

hot toys will take the licence for sure

 

[Natrix]

Can 30 Days of Night and Twilight Eclipse director David Slade undo the damage that Ben Affleck inflicted on Marvel's blind superhero, Daredevil? He's got a fighting chance — if they stick to the Born Again comic book series.

THR is reporting that rumored director Slade will be adaption the Frank Miller-written and David Mazzucchelli-illustrated Born Again Daredevil series. This is the storyline where ____ gets real for Matt Murdock, and the hero basically goes insane when his ex sells his identity off for heroin. So yeah, this could be really good. Plus Affleck is no longer attached to any Daredevil project, so the film could be getting some fresh blood.

 

[CelticPredator]

30 Days and Hard Candy were ok. 30 was better though.