Daredevil Slinks Shamefacedly Back to Marvel
Remember that “Let us use Galactus and you can keep Daredevil for a while longer” trade Marvel offered to Fox a little while back? Fox passed, meaning the Daredevil movie rights will revert to Marvel some time in October, and director Joe Carnahan’s vision of a gritty, Frank Miller-before-he-totally-lost-his-mind-esque set-in-the-’70s Daredevil movie is basically dead. Carnahan went on the Twitter to explain/bitch, and posted the above “sizzle reel” which was used to give mouth-breathing Fox movie executives an idea of what his movie would be like. While it’s technically possible that Marvel could pick up Carnahan’s version, they almost certainly won’t, because they’ll use him in the modern Marvel movie-verse instead.
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