Daredevil reboot: official discussion thread

[SpideyScott]

He shouldn't* :P

 

[Saitou Hajime]

Unless it's on the CW and have Vampire Diaries-style pacing, a TV series is going to die in 6 episodes, 13 if it's lucky.

 

[EML420]

So I just finished a five-season/2 week DEXTER marathon in anticipation of the Season 6 premiere, and all I gotta say is: Michael C. Hall must play Daredevil. Please, David Slade, give Dexter Morgan the Daredevil gig. Please.

I agree 100 percent Micheal C Hall would make a great Daredevil

 

[Jordacar]

Unless it's on the CW and have Vampire Diaries-style pacing, a TV series is going to die in 6 episodes, 13 if it's lucky.

I agree with the second part.

God I hope "Powers" is good

 

[Vaportrail]

A tv for Daredevil would be good! Just make it dark and True to the comics

I've been saying this for years. Vol. 2 of Daredevil is ripe for a primetime lawyer show. Some issues he doesn't even suit up, it's just about the drama.

It'd be so good, you just have to think about it like a serious crime drama, not some Warner Bros-like overdramatized crap with a special effects finale.

 

[Alexei Belyakov]

I agree 100 percent Micheal C Hall would make a great Daredevil

Its a wet dream.

 

[marcvader]

I've been saying this for years. Vol. 2 of Daredevil is ripe for a primetime lawyer show. Some issues he doesn't even suit up, it's just about the drama.

It'd be so good, you just have to think about it like a serious crime drama, not some Warner Bros-like overdramatized crap with a special effects finale.

Yess! Give it to HBO, Showtime, or AMC even.

 

[Brian2887]

I like Michael C. Hall. I really do. But that's such uninspired casting. A guy who works in law enforcement who takes justice into his own hands.. moving to a role where he works in law enforcement and takes justice into his own hands, non-lethally.

Let's just cast Christian Bale. I mean, we know he can play a guy in a costume who fights people.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

I really hope this gets moving soon.

 

[Matt]

John Goodman for Kingpin!!!!

 

[Cuyan]

I wonder if they could pull off the yellow costume?

 

[Jordacar]

John Goodman for Kingpin!!!!

Too old

There's always Paul Wight

 

[Cuyan]

Who's to say the Kingpin wouldn't be in his 50s?

 

[marcvader]

The oldest I'd imagine the actor playing Kingpin could be is somewhere about's in his 40's. There is some physicality from the big man required and I think an actor in his 50's, especially one of the girth of Kingpin, would be difficult to be convincing.

 

[Cuyan]

I think it'd be possible to have a character like Fisk in a film and not have him be a physical menace and more a psychological one. It may even ground the film in a more real world as opposed to having someone so large be merely a physical opposition.

 

[Jordacar]

But then he wouldn't be the Kingpin. He'd just be any other mob boss.

 

[marcvader]

I think it'd be possible to have a character like Fisk in a film and not have him be a physical menace and more a psychological one. It may even ground the film in a more real world as opposed to having someone so large be merely a physical opposition.

He has to be physical cause that's a huge part of what makes him who he is.

 

[Cuyan]

He ceases to be the Kingpin if he isn't being physical? I don't feel that is accurate.

 

[marcvader]

To each their own.

 

[The Overlord]

Too old

There's always Paul Wight

He's not a good enough actor to play the Kingpin.

He ceases to be the Kingpin if he isn't being physical? I don't feel that is accurate.

Kingpin is supposed to be both a physical and an intellectual threat.

 

[Cuyan]

It just seems that if you were to put someone of such girth in a live action film and have the final showdown just be a slug-fest between two arguably super-powered people that it misrepresents the villain, especially Fisk, as just being a brute. Seems somewhat contrived and hokey in my opinion.

 

[henzINNIT]

Too old

There's always Paul Wight

Hmm... a talented older actor or a useless wrestler?

Gotta side with Goodman on that one.

I know it's a reboot but I would probably have MCD back to be honest. He was great.

 

[The Overlord]

It just seems that if you were to put someone of such girth in a live action film and have the final showdown just be a slug-fest between two arguably super-powered people that it misrepresents the villain, especially Fisk, as just being a brute. Seems somewhat contrived and hokey in my opinion.

I don't see how, in the upcoming Batman movie Bane will likely be a villain who uses both brawn and brains to defeat Batman, how does that make him any less of an effective villain? A villain with both brawn and brains will be more dangerous one with just one or the other. You can out think a strong but stupid villain and out fight a smart but weak villain, but a villain who is strong and smart is far harder to defeat.

 

[marcvader]

It just seems that if you were to put someone of such girth in a live action film and have the final showdown just be a slug-fest between two arguably super-powered people that it misrepresents the villain, especially Fisk, as just being a brute. Seems somewhat contrived and hokey in my opinion.

The "showdown" doesn't have to end in a slug-fest nor does his physicality doesn't have to be displayed in a hokey way but nevertheless he does need to be physical and an actor playing the part has to be convincing.

 

[Cuyan]

I don't see how, in the upcoming Batman movie Bane will likely be a villain who uses both brawn and brains to defeat Batman, how does that make him any less of an effective villain? A villain with both brawn and brains will be more dangerous one with just one or the other. You can out think a strong but stupid villain and out fight a smart but weak villain, but a villain who is strong and smart is far harder to defeat.

The level of challenge was never being argued, however Bane could be just as effective employing mental warfare. It was argued earlier that The Kingpin ceases to be who he is if he doesn't get physical. I don't agree with that.