If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again. This appears to be the Marvel motto when it comes to film adaptations of their comics that turned out to be ass (see “The Hulk”). Or at least the motto for those that own their properties.
Tom Rothman, a 20th Century Fox co-chairman, talked about a “Daredevil” reboot to IESB.net And it’s not the first time Fox has mentioned a reboot for that commercially successful, but critically maligned franchise-that-never was. “A Daredevil… reboot, is something we are thinking very seriously about,” he said noting that his studio still owns the right to the comic book character.
“We’ve got all the rights. And yes, 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. That it is possible. And I think that you see that when they did Batman Begins, the first Nolan movie, that you can have made some mistakes along the way or movies that the audience wasn’t that crazy about and then given the proper amount of time and the right creative vision behind it, you can, to use your word, reboot.”
Eh, we suppose it could work. You can’t get much worse than the laughable original “Daredevil,” with Ben Affleck. We’re pretty sure the indignity of that clownish Bullseye character is what sent Colin Farrell hurtling towards substance abuse and rehab.
