7. Don Siegel's Daredevil
Sorcha EdwardIf Dirty Harry director Don Siegel could've filmed Daredevil in the 70s then who better than the "Man With No Name" to play his "Man Without Fear"? It is often suggested that Clint would have made a great Batman, usually in relation to Frank Millers The Dark Knight Returns but 70s Clint of Dirty Harry and Play Misty For Me would have been phenomenal as both Matt Murdoch and his alter-ego Daredevil in a hard-boiled Don Siegel adaptation. In homage to Millars The Bat-Man Orson Welles would have had the stature and presence at that point to play Kingpin Wilson Fisk but perhaps not the martial capabilities. Jill St John could have channelled her Bond Girl Tiffany Case from Diamonds Are Forever into playing Elektra, and in a Heat level pairing of key 70s actors, Charles Bronson could face-off against Clint as a grizzled hitman version of Bullseye. Daredevil was created in the 1960s but Frank Miller's seminal run on the character was brought to life by having the backdrop of a crime-ridden New York (specifically Hell's Kitchen) of the 70s and 80s. It is a New York that no longer truly exists, so it is easy to see how Joe Carnahan arrived at his pitch of a 1970's set Daredevil, later rejected in favour of a contemporary TV take on the character.