10 Things Marvel Wants You To Forget About Elektra
9. THAT 2005 Film
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Remember that terrifying period a decade or so ago when Fox owned all the rights to Daredevil? And Ben Affleck was Matt Murdock? And Jennifer Garner was Elektra? Do you also, then, remember just how bad the 2005 Elektra spin-off was?
Not that it should matter anyway, but both Catwoman and Elektra ensured that multiple women-led comic book features were put on hold indefinitely. Studios, somehow perplexed at the thought that maybe the problem was that they were hiring the wrong people, shelved plans for subsequent female superhero flicks, and placed the entire Daredevil license on ice for a further decade until Netflix swooped in and saved all our lives with a gripping and intelligent small screen revival.
The film currently sits on a tasty 10% on Rotten Tomatoes, which means it's pretty damn terrible. Contrast that with 2015's Daredevil, which currently earns all the plaudits out there, and it makes you appreciate Marvel Studios' intervention all the more.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
