David Slade To Direct ‘Daredevil’ Reboot
Don’t ever sayTwilightdidn’t do anything for people. Fresh offDavid Slade’s $700 million dollar worldwide slaying withThe Twilight Saga: Eclipse, the director ofHard Candyand30 Days of Nighthas just signed on to helm a reboot of the Marvel characterDaredevilfor 20th Century Fox.David Scarpa, writer ofThe Last Castleand Fox’sThe Day the Earth Stood Still,was reportedly hired to write a scriptlast year, but that could be a thing of the past. Read more after the break.
Variety exclusivelybroke the news, and though Scarpa was reportedly hired in February 2010 to work on a script,The Hollywood Reportersays 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 likeDaredevilwill be the next superhero movie out of Fox who currently hasX-Men: First ClassandThe Wolverinelined 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 withTwilightfans when he was directing that film.Daredevilis 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?
