Clark Duke sat down to talk about Kick-Ass and some other interesting things, but all that doesn’t really matter to me. I already know Kick-Ass looks great, and I hope it lives up, but he diverged into a brief talk about which adaptation he would like to do, and surprisingly he talks about writing the reboot of Daredevil!
Are there any comics you’d interested in adapting yourself?
[Pause] Yeah, I wish they’d let me write and direct a reboot of Daredevil. I think there’s definitely a way to do Daredevil correctly that nobody’s figured out for some reason.What would you do differently?
It’s not really worth talking about.
Oh come on, we’re at a comic convention and you’re starring in a comic-book movie…
First of all just tonally. I would completely… he’s a pulp hero, I think you address it, you have to have respect for the reality of it to some extent. And also I think you play with, the most interesting thing about him is he’s a lawyer who’s committing crime every night, he’s a catholic that dresses up like the devil, there’s all this thematic stuff that’s so fun to play with, that’s so awesome, I think [Ed] Brubaker’s run is my generations’ defining… I think they’re honestly better than the Frank Miller run. And somebody should make that into a film.
And that somebody is Clark Duke.
Like Fox is gonna let me… start that rumor, maybe they’ll call me. I could write the hell out of that Daredevil movie though.
Well I like his respect and approach to the character and I would love to see him get a chance to pitch that approach to the studio and get a new Daredevil film going. I happen to agree that Brubaker’s run is better than Miller’s, and it will distance the reboot from the Afleck version (which I actually liked)
Now I dont know that I would want him to direct, but I would be really interested to see a pitch from this side of things, so why not Duke to write it? At least a try.
