Fox to Reboot "Daredevil"

[Morningkill]

With 20th Century Fox having already floated talk of a "Fantastic Four" reboot, it comes as no major surprise that the studio is planning another cinematic take on the Marvel Comics property "Daredevil", reports Deadline Hollywood.

Like various rights deals, the studio has to keep producing films based on the property or else the rights revert back to the owner - in this case the now Disney-based Marvel Studios.

The comic was previously adapted in 2003 with Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Michael Clarke Duncan and Colin Farrell in the key roles. The $78 million film went on to a $179.2 million worldwide gross despite very mixed reviews. An R-rated director's cut with 30 minutes of extra footage was released in 2005 to a better response.

For the new version, David Scarpa ("The Day The Earth Stood Still") will pen the script while Peter Chernin will produce.

[megatron2015]

[Ziph]

I wonder if it's safe to assume that any super hero movie that has been made within the past 10 years is going to get a "reboot" regardless of how successful or unsuccessful it was.

[MR. FMF]

Originally Posted by Ziph

I wonder if it's safe to assume that any super hero movie that has been made within the past 10 years is going to get a "reboot" regardless of how successful or unsuccessful it was.

i think you are right and it's gonna keep going at this pace till something else grades the morons attention

[Morningkill]

Originally Posted by Ziph

I wonder if it's safe to assume that any super hero movie that has been made within the past 10 years is going to get a "reboot" regardless of how successful or unsuccessful it was.

More than likely. Movie studios are starting to make franchise reboots part of their 10-year plan for a series. Spider-Man, for instance, was going to be rebooted no matter how well the 4th film did; Raimi walking away from the project simply made them do it 2 years early.

[MR. FMF]

and i honestly dont see it just stopping at comic book moves either. how long till Alien or Blade Runner is "reimagined" or "rebooted" or whatever bull shit term then choose next

[Ziph]

Originally Posted by the Alpha & Omega, FMF

and i honestly dont see it just stopping at comic book moves either. how long till Alien or Blade Runner is "reimagined" or "rebooted" or whatever bull shit term then choose next

If they re-do Aliens I'll severely be pissed....

[Morningkill]

To be frank, though we shouldn't be so surprised. Since its inception, the film industry has made its living off of recycled ideas. In the early days of the medium, it was adaptations of books or comic strips/books (let's not forget that the was a Batman movie back in the 40's). We started seeing remakes as early as the 60's. A lot of people like to talk about the good old days when movies were art first and business second - those days never existed.

[MR. FMF]

to a degree i see your point, but remaking something 30-40 years after is a completely different ideas than waiting 8 years to just get the same idea out over and over again

[Ziph]

Originally Posted by the Alpha & Omega, FMF

to a degree i see your point, but remaking something 30-40 years after is a completely different ideas than waiting 8 years to just get the same idea out over and over again

8 years is a bit generous at this point.

[Morningkill]

Originally Posted by the Alpha & Omega, FMF

to a degree i see your point, but remaking something 30-40 years after is a completely different ideas than waiting 8 years to just get the same idea out over and over again

It's all about the dollar signs. The reason these licensed movies are coming so hard and fast is because they have shorter time limits to continue the series before losing the license back to whomever they optioned it from. They're faced with the choice of either oversaturating the market with their product, or potentially letting someone else profit from it.

[Morningkill]

Oh, and check this out - there's something in this liste to piss EVERYONE off. 77 sequels currently in development: http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/4053...velopment.html

[Ziph]

Originally Posted by Morningkill

Oh, and check this out - there's something in this liste to piss EVERYONE off. 77 sequels currently in development: http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/4053...velopment.html

It reminds me of the video game industry and the bastardization through sequels ::cough:: Mass Effect 2 ::cough::

[megatron2015]

Originally Posted by Ziph

It reminds me of the video game industry and the bastardization through sequels ::cough:: Mass Effect 2 ::cough::

But I'm kind of liking Mass Effect 2

[Ziph]

Originally Posted by megatron2015

But I'm kind of liking Mass Effect 2

Bleh it would be fine if it was a standalone game, but the fact that they changed so much about it from the first is an atrocity imo. Too much was changed to appeal to the Gears of War crowd and it lost a lot of it's immersion and has absolutely no flow in comparison to the first one. Most disappointed in a game i've probably ever been, what I get for buying into the hype >.>

[megatron2015]

Originally Posted by Ziph

Bleh it would be fine if it was a standalone game, but the fact that they changed so much about it from the first is an atrocity imo. Too much was changed to appeal to the Gears of War crowd and it lost a lot of it's immersion and has absolutely no flow in comparison to the first one. Most disappointed in a game i've probably ever been, what I get for buying into the hype >.>

True most of the changes were for the worst.

[Morningkill]

Originally Posted by Ziph

Bleh it would be fine if it was a standalone game, but the fact that they changed so much about it from the first is an atrocity imo. Too much was changed to appeal to the Gears of War crowd and it lost a lot of it's immersion and has absolutely no flow in comparison to the first one. Most disappointed in a game i've probably ever been, what I get for buying into the hype >.>

Originally Posted by megatron2015

True most of the changes were for the worst.

Are you serious? You preferred the clunky inventory system and simon-game hacking? The only change from the first that I miss is the ability to tool around on planets with the Mako.

[Ziph]

Originally Posted by Morningkill

Are you serious? You preferred the clunky inventory system and simon-game hacking? The only change from the first that I miss is the ability to tool around on planets with the Mako.

I'd rather have a clunky Invo system than no invo system, it is an RPG after all (allegedly) As for the hacking, rather indifferent, it's a cool mini game but over the stretch of the game it really isn't any harder than the simon hacking and just starts taking longer.

While I do miss the idea of exploring the planets instead of the atrocious and tedious scanning shit, but I don't miss the mako controls/physics coupled with maps created by sadists >.>

The things they changed were the flow and feel of the game. It became more about going from arena to arena fighting hoards of enemies, might as well be playing Gears of War. Then from there it just totally switches gears to where you have to go through a loading screen plagued spaceship and wander around till you are ready to go through another long loading screen to go back to arena fighting.

The dialogue felt a lot more forced and unnecessarily cheesy, the fact you can't go through the presidium and wards again was frustrating, the Citadel, Omega, and Illium all really were the same thing with different wallpaper. And I miss the elevator scenes and small dialogue with characters while fighting, while it may not seem like much it totally killed the immersion because everything was so separated by loading screens.