Frank Miller/Jason Statham want DAREDEVIL reimanging?

By Matt Holmes / June 25, 2011

I always thought Daredevil was the one that really got away from Marvel. Here's a superhero, not to disimilar to Batman, who fights justice because of a childhood incident - but actually maybe goes one further than Batman by studying and putting away criminals behind bars with his work as a lawyer by day. Matt Murdock never rests. They got a terrific actor to play him in Ben Affleck five years ago but sadly they didn't choose the right director, though I'm of the opinion that Mark Steven Johnson's director's cut of the film was not without it's merits.

I can't believe at this point that Kevin Smith hasn't pitched for a sequel. Having wrote the character for the comic books, played a cameo in the original film and of course being tight friends with Affleck - I'm so surprised they haven't got this character back on the big screen where he deserves. Maybe it's something they have in the pipeline for the future but by the sounds of things they are going to have to be quick. Fans at the Comic Con at the end of last month might have given Frank Miller the idea to reinvent the character himself, something he did in the comics in the 80's. It was Death Race star Jason Statham who was first asked about the character and he immediately clicked to the idea according to The LA Times...

"Absolutely, just give me the chance, I would love to be Daredevil."

Though he would be clearly more suited to play Bullseye, Statham is a very popular leading action star often dubbed this generation's version of "Bruce Willis". Willis himself made a very convincing hero in Unbreakable, could a more softly spoken Statham work as Matt Murdock? Would he work as the brilliantly ambitous and righteous young lawyer? Frank Miller just happened to be on that same roundtable, and said about Statham...

"I think he should be Daredevil too."

If Miller wanted to go with Daredevil, as far as I'm aware, he could do it. Marvel Studio's I believe will own the character and not Fox, if he could pitch a movie at Marvel - it could get the reimagining treatment much like how The Incredible Hulk came back this summer. He isn't a character with wild superhero powers, or outrageous villains. It could be a tightly contained movie, a character that could easily exist like Iron Man. This series could replace The Punisher franchise which Marvel have also dropped the ball with. The only stumbling block is the amount of tentpole releases at Marvel but watch this space. After The Spirit, I think Frank Miller is going to be around for a very long time... we know he has the Raymond Chandler adaptation on his mind with Clive Owen - and undoubtedly a version of The Dark Knight Returns somewhere in the future. But Daredevil has to be itching away at him. source - /film