David Slade is in talks to develop and direct the new Daredevil movie, being made by 20th Century Fox and Regency. Peter Chernin and Dylan Clark of Chernin Entertainment are producing.
The so-far untitled project has no writer at this stage although the studio says it is aiming to make a movie that continues the story begun by the 2003 Ben Affleck movie. Affleck, however, is not involved in the new project.
If they are in fact going with a script that adapts or is influenced by Born Again, I could see why Fox would change the tune after so many years (remember: there was reboot talks once upon a time) but NOW this poses an excellent question. With the exception of Affleck, who else could reprise their parts from the 2003 film? Would they seek out Ellen Pompeo who is a bigger name now than she was then (mostly due to Grey’s Anatomy) -as she played Karen Page?
Can Micheal Clarke Duncan return as Fisk? Does anyone want him back? (I’m for it,BTW) Could Joe Pantoliano return as reporter Ben Urich? Maybe. It would be really nice if something like this happened.
Now, here’s another question. Pure speculation on my part and it is probably a poof of smoke, but here goes. This is ONLY a hypothetical situation. For those familiar with the storyline, there is a villain called ‘Nuke’ that features in the plot of Born Again. Captain America has a cameo. The chances of these characters being in a script are unlikely- however, again, this is a “what if” pipe dream…could the new film merge its way into the Marvel Movie Universe? If and for the third time IF that happened Slade and co. could do pretty much a direct adaptation of Born Again.
Do I think it wll happen like that? No. But I don’t think anyone would complain if it did…
