Fox chief talks DAREDEVIL reboot

Batman and Hulk redos pave the way for the man without fear

By Rob M. Worley     October 06, 2008
Source: IESB.net

IESB.net got 20th Century Fox co-chairman Tom Rothman to divulge info about the recently rumored 'Daredevil' reboot. Rothman says the studio is serious about doing another movie featuring Marvel's man without fear, and they're going to be doing it "soon". However, he also cautioned that "soon" in Hollywood time can be a bit like dog years.

"We've got all the rights. And yes, I think that the thing the 'Hulk' showed although, it did what it did, is that it is possible, that if you really do it right the audience will give you a second chance," Rothman said about the prospect of revisiting a franchise that had underperformed. "That it is possible. And I think that you see that when they did 'Batman Begins', the first Nolan movie, that you can have made some mistakes along the way or movies that the audience wasn't that crazy about and then given the proper amount of time and the right creative vision behind it, you can, to use your word, reboot."

Rothman also cautioned that, while invoking 'The Dark Knight' and Christopher Nolan, he's referring to intent rather than ton.

"Would [the new 'Daredevil'] be as dark? I don't know because what it really needs is, it needs a visionary at the level that Chris Nolan was. It needs someone, it needs a director, honestly, who has a genuine vision," Rothman said. "What we wouldn't do is just do it for the sake of doing it. Right? What we try to do is to get a creative engine for it, that really had a great vision for it, that's what we would look for."

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