He talked briefly to The Radio Dan Show about his visions for his planned "Daredevil" film. He had two versions. One was a violent "Hard R" film, like 70's classic, "The Warriors" and the other was a PG-13 rated film with very little violence......12A standards. He wanted his film to be set in the 70's, which is when Frank Miller's "Daredevil: Born Again" story-arc was set. He had a choice to bring it into the present time, but liked the feel back then and he got the inspiration from how popular Matthew Vaughn's "X-Men: First Class" live-action film. That, as fans all know, was set in the swinging 60's.
So here's what he said finally about his visions for the his "Daredevil" reboot,
"I was brought in
pretty late in the game, and my take probably didn’t help matters since
they had an existing script. But I just thought that if you were going
to do it, this was the way to go. This is the way that intrigued
me...It was initially something I passed on because Christopher Nolan
had done such a lovely job with Batman and unless you’re going to go
after that trilogy, then that’s how you have to think. You can’t
out-hurdle that, then what’s the point of trying? So it set the bar
extraordinarily high, and I thought ‘Well, if we’re going to do this,
let’s have a discussion about Hell’s Kitchen, and how it was really
Hell’s Kitchen in the 70s,” so that got me really excited. But as I
mentioned, the clock ticking and this kind of October drop-dead date, it
wasn’t tenable. And having gone down this road in the past when you’re
trying to write something and shoot it at the same time is disastrous,
and I think you’d need an adequate amount of time to put that script
together in the right way. My brother [Matthew Michael Carnahan (The
Kingdom)] was interested in writing it with me, so we’ll see."
And here's what he said about keeping the 70's feel and look from Miller's "Born Again" story-arc,
"As I’m finishing
my kind of reimagining of Death Wish, I think the 70s is figuring into
my conscious and subconscious mind right now. I think it was the last
time music and movies were just tremendous. We just cranked out some great stuff. I think
that’s why the sizzle reel is able to be kind of abstract because people
have such great fondness in their hearts for that decade, particularly
the early part of that decade. I’m excited; you know the idea of having
Daredevil on top of a building somewhere with the Serpico marquee in
the background was enough, that image was enough, for me to want to make
the movie."
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