10 Deleted Scenes That Radically Change Famous Films
8. Daredevil Had A Whole Subplot (Starring Coolio)
It' rare you'll find anyone brave enough to get up and defend Mark Steven Johnsons Daredevil film from 2003. The news that Marvel had regained control of the licence relaunched the character with a (great) Netflix series was met with sighs of relief after the cluster cuss of a superhero flick Johnson put together, with the admittedly pretty great cast (Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Michael Clarke Duncan) significantly hampered by terrible sub-Matrix action sequences, a frankly terrible script, and a whole lot of Evanescence.
How did one film get so much wrong with so much going for it? You won't see people defending the film that was released in cinemas, but there's an increasingly large and vocal faction of the audience singing the praises of the director's cut. The trimming and addition of extensive deleted scenes does almost transform Daredevil into something watchable; it's certainly a very different film, with thirty minutes of additional footage resurrecting a subplot involving Coolio as a drug addict and more focus on Matt Murdocks day job as a defence attorney. The tone was a lot closer to Frank Millers comics, too, which you can't really go wrong with.