In a recent, interview to Movie Pilot, director Joe
Carnahan (The Grey) spoke about the now defunct Daredevil movie trilogy and
gave an update on the adaptation of Mark Miller's comic book, Nemesis.
Regarding the Daredevil trilogy, Carnahan says that he
was only offered the project when the rights for the property were about to
move back to Marvel.
"What
people don’t realize about the DD project is that the producers of the film,
got to me very late. They had a script that I read and I thought that while the
action was wonderful, the story didn’t really have any additional bite. There
was nothing I suggested a trilogy as follows. ‘Daredevil ‘73’ ‘Daredevil ‘79’
and ‘Daredevil ‘85’ where I was going to do a kind of ‘cultural libretto’ and
make the music of those eras a kind of thematic arc . So the first one would be
Classic Rock, the second one would be Punk Rock and the third film would be
‘New Wave.’ The problem was, the option was almost set to lapse so we made an
eleventh hour bid to Marvel to retain the rights for a bit longer so I could
rework the script. Unfortunately, it just didn’t happen. Marvel wanted the
rights back. I don’t blame them."
After Mark Miller's big words about the movie, one would
expect the Nemesis adaptation to be getting ready to start production, but it
seems that both Carnahan and his brother are still polishing the script.
"I
think the biggest challenge with Nemesis is that it’s just a motherf***er of
screenplay in that it pushes a lot of buttons and does things that both expand
and violate the traditional mores of the ‘comic book adaptation’ and that’s a
scary conceit when The Dark Knight is considered the socio-political lynchpin
of that particular universe. I think Nemesis f**ks with the genre in such a
thumb-in-the-eye fashion that it might simply be something for another time and
place. It’s incredibly topical and remains infuriatingly so. I chalk it up to
another really wonderful script that my brother and I wrote that simply may be
too smart-assed for its own good. My brother and I took our real inspiration
from Nemesis in the fact that only one character, the bad guy, wore a costume.
From their it deviates from the source material in a number of ways but what
remains alive and well is Millar’s simmering disdain for the status quo and the
relentless violence that characterizes the graphic novel."
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