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It didn't look good once prospective director Joe Carnahan tweeted "I think my idea for a certain retro, red-suited, Serpico-styled superhero went up in smoke today kids" Carnahan had talked about doing a 70's era film with ties to the Frank Miller run of DareDevil comics recently.

There was rumors that Marvel/Disney were trying to get the rights to Fantastic Four (owned by FOX) in return for an extension on DareDevil rights which needed to be shooting by mid October to stay with FOX. If that was ever true it appears they didn't end well. At least FOX gets to keep the FF for a while longer with the constant rumors of a reboot. FOX isn't exactly rolling with franchise potential IP at the moment only just recently relaunching the X-Men franchise.

DareDevil was originaly released by FOX in 2003, starring Ben Afflek as Matt Murdok with Jennifer Garner, Michael Clarke Duncan, and Colin Farrell in supporting roles. It was part of the spat of early 2000 superhero movies that were terrible if not named X-Men or Spider-Man. At least with Fantastic Four it was kind of entertaining if vapid and cheesy. Other than it being the point where Ben Afflek met future wife Jennifer Garner not much good can be said about that movie. The directors cut added an additional subplot but not much in the end. Garner was also given a spin-off movie Elektra, and recived worse reviews than Daredevil.

Caranahan cut together a pair of sizzle reelz for his 70's DareDevil movie, one of which is titled DAREDEVIL NC-17. Carnahan could find himself at Marvel making a DareDevil movie, but with the sucsess of Avengers it seems doubtful they would let him do a possibly R rated take on the character.

SOURCE: Deadline.com

I'd like to see what Carnahan had in mind for Daredevil in full form. The Grey is one of my favorite films of the year so far. But right now I'm not sure Daredevil would fit in the Marvel universe of movies right now. Or rather, I'm not sure whether I'd like to see a reboot just yet.

A rebooted Daredevil is something that franchise certainly needs. Wouldn't mind following along to see if they can improve on the lackluster Affleck version.

Fox doesn't have a great track record for its Comic book movies.

Marvel Studios however, is coming out with some great adaptations, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor and they have some impressive future films in the works.

I'd say it's probably best that the rights go back to Marvel, maybe they can do a much better job of a movie than Fox.

Fuck that Frank Miller 70's Style Daredevil sounds incredible and more importantly different. As a huge Daredevil fan I really don't have high hopes for what Marvel/Disney will do with the character. I can't see them trying something experimental with any of their properties.

I'm looking forward to what isn't a generic story like the first. I think that's what killed it as well as the GL movie.

I wonder if Fox still has the rights to that red hot Elektra property. As bad as Daredevil was it pales in comparison to the turd that was Elektra. So who has the rights to Blade? It was the first successful Marvel film and kinda started the whole comic book movie craze thing.

@Ghost_of_GhostDad: Pretty sure New Line Cinema still owns right to Blade another franchise that just went so so wrong when it came to the third movie. It's odd though since New Line was merged with Warner Bros. in 08 so perhaps Warner Bros. owns them now? It doesn't seem like that hard of a series to reboot honestly, hell the second movie is basically one long excuse to have fight scenes. It'd be cool if they could use Morbius but he is kind of a Spider-man character. Film rights are an odd thing.

@MrMazz said:

@Ghost_of_GhostDad: Pretty sure New Line Cinema still owns right to Blade another franchise that just went so so wrong when it came to the third movie. It's odd though since New Line was merged with Warner Bros. in 08 so perhaps Warner Bros. owns them now? It doesn't seem like that hard of a series to reboot honestly, hell the second movie is basically one long excuse to have fight scenes. It'd be cool if they could use Morbius but he is kind of a Spider-man character. Film rights are an odd thing.

I don't blame New Line for Blade Trinity because it was mostly having to work around a drugged out and stubborn Wesley Snipes.

The more characters Marvel get back the better. Don't really see the point in just shitting out a film to keep hold of the license, is Daredevil really going to make Fox that much money anyway?