By now, you've probaly seen the footage from director Joe Carnahan's pitch to Fox for Daredevil. It ticked lots of boxes for me (anything with a Warriors influence is a winner), and it makes me sad that it's unlikely we'll get to see a Daredevil movie along those lines.
Following the news that Fox decided to pass on the project, Carnahan spoke to the Radio Dan Show to talk about what interested him about the character and why Fox passed:
“I was brought in pretty late in the game, and my take probably didn’t help matters since they had an existing script. But I just thought that if you were going to do it, this was the way to go. This is the way that intrigued me…"
He added that "It was initially something I passed on because Christopher Nolan had done such a lovely job with Batman and unless you’re going to go after that trilogy, then that’s how you have to think. You can’t out-hurdle that, then what’s the point of trying? So it set the bar extraordinarily high, and I thought ‘Well, if we’re going to do this, let’s have a discussion about Hell’s Kitchen, and how it was really Hell’s Kitchen in the 70s, so that got me really excited".
But sadly, it wasn't to be. "But as I mentioned, the clock ticking and this kind of October drop-dead date, it wasn’t tenable. And having gone down this road in the past when you’re trying to write something and shoot it at the same time is disastrous, and I think you’d need an adequate amount of time to put that script together in the right way. My brother [Matthew Michael Carnahan (The Kingdom)] was interested in writing it with me, so we’ll see.”
Carnahan instead, then, moves onto his planned Death Wish movie, and Marvel is set to get the rights to Daredevil back in October. It's unlikely to do anything with them for a while, sadly, given just how packed its existing slate is.
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