Marvel Executive Says Daredevil Series Won't Make The Mistakes Of The Film

For many fans writer-director Mark Steven Johnson 2003 Daredevil film, starring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Collin Farrell, and Michael Clark Duncan is among the worst comic book movies ever made, so it isn't surprising to hear Marvel distancing themselves from it now that they have a new live-action series of the character coming up.

  

Marvel's television executive Jeph Loeb was recently interview by KFI AM 640 where we talked about the show, while clearly stating that the previous film and the new show couldn't be more far apart.

"When we started talking to our actors and to our directors, this is with all due respect to the film, if you want to know what we're not doing, go watch the movie. If you want to know what we're doing, it's very much steeped in the world of the comics, but it also has a life of its own and that's really what television and our films really do is that we take the best....We hope and we're very confident that this is the beginning of something that's very exciting on Netflix."

New York was the backdrop chosen by Marvel not only for the upcoming Man Without Fear show, but also the rest of their Marvel/Netflix partnership, so where were they when the Avengers battled Loki and his Chitauri invading forces?

"When I watched The Avengers, which is really one of my favorite movies, during the scene when the sky opens up, the Chitauri are coming and there's a giant battle over by Grand Central Station, even in the theater I was thinking, 'In the true Marvel Universe if you go about ten blocks over and an avenue down, there's a place called Hell's Kitchen and in that world are characters like Daredevil and Jessica Jones and Luke Cage, Hero for Hire, and those characters are not going to be involved in an inter-warfare-universe-colliding incident. That's what the Avengers do and they do it really, really well and those movies are incredible. We wanted to have an opportunity to be able to tell stories about our street-level heroes and how that they could possibly interact in the world of Marvel without it feeling like it's completely detached and by the same token feeling like it's part of that world."

Showrunned by Spartacus creator, Steven S. DeKnight, Daredevil stars Charlie Cox, Rosario Dawson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Peter Shinkoda, and Scott Glenn.

Source - KFI AM 640

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