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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