FOX Talking Daredevil Reboot Sans-Ben Affleck
According to 20th Century Fox co-chairman Tom Rothman, "A Daredevil reboot is something we are thinking very seriously about."
"I think that the thing the Hulk showed although, it did what it did, is that it is possible, that if you really do it right the audience will give you a second chance," Rothman told IESB.net. "And I think that you see that when they did ‘Batman Begins,’ the first Nolan movie, that you can make some mistakes along the way, or movies that the audience aren’t that crazy about, and then given the proper amount of time and the right creative vision behind it, you can reboot."
The 2003 Daredevil, movie directed by Mark Steven Johnson and starring Ben Affleck made over $100 million in the U.S., although the film was generally panned by critics. Given FOX’s lackluster summer, rumors started earlier this month about the potential reboot.
Given that "going dark" is all the rage right now (with the success of The Dark Knight), would a new Daredevil movie head in that direction?
"I don’t know because what it really needs is, it needs a visionary at the level that Chris Nolan was," said Rothman. "It needs someone, it needs a director, honestly, who has a genuine vision. What we wouldn’t do is just do it for the sake of doing it."
