The saga of Matt Murdock, aka The Man Without Fear, aka Daredevil, has been a long and storied one, and although I didn’t mind Mark Steven Johnson’s 2003 adaptation of the character in his first big-screen solo adventure (in fact, I kinda liked it), most people didn’t seem to cotton to it much. And so, Fox has been attempting to either make a sequel or reboot the character since, with the character’s rights set to revert back to Marvel Studios (and parent company Disney) if Fox doesn’t get a “Daredevil” movie cranking by October 10th of this year.
It appears Fox is losing interest in Hell’s Kitchen’s protector, with its latest (semi) attached director, “The A-Team’s” Joe Carnahan making noise via Twitter that he might be off the project. Carnahan recently tweeted this, leading to speculation that Daredevil’s time at Fox may have come to an end:
Think my idea for a certain retro, red-suited, Serpico-styled superhero went up in smoke today kids.
— Joe Carnahan (@carnojoe) August 14, 2012
He later added:
We shall see. Time is NOT on anyone’s side.
— Joe Carnahan (@carnojoe) August 14, 2012
Referring, no doubt, to the October 10th deadline.
With only two months to go before Fox has to hire a director, attach an actor, and build a whole cast (not to mention production set designs and all that other good stuff), it seems highly unlikely that they can get “Daredevil” into production by October 10th.
And so … welcome back to Marvel, DD!
Here’s my idea: a “Daredevil” TV show. What do you think?
