If you listen closely, you can hear the faint buzz of millions of screaming vigilante lovers and superhero fans from all over the world revel in the news that Marvel have teamed up with Netflix to produce five new series based on their lesser-known heroes. As we’ve previously established, those heroes will feature the likes of Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones and Daredevil, ultimately culminating in ‘The Defenders’, which may or may not feature the aforementioned, or at least that’s the plan anyway.
Daredevil, out of all of these is perhaps the most recognisable, and perhaps at present, the most worrisome. With the guilty pleasure of a fiasco that was DAREDEVIL back in 2003 (poor Affleck, he never gets a break, does he?), fans of the blind marvel have had plenty of reason to worry. But worry no longer, if you don’t follow acquisition news, let me give you a quick update. Fox previously owned the film rights to Daredevil, which is really why no one should ever blame Marvel for what emerged in 2003. Now, however, Marvel have those rights back and with recent successes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, (and with each film perfecting their superserum formula), we can all rest a little easier at night knowing that it might actually be great.
But if you wanted even more reason to celebrate, here, take this nugget. Drew Goddard, producer and writer of ‘Lost’ and ‘Alias’, as well as scribe for CLOVERFIELD and CABIN IN THE WOODS, which he co-wrote with Marvel’s head honcho in all this superhero, Joss Whedon, is set to write the series.
Now you may be thinking “that’s all good and well, but we want someone who knows how to handle Daredevil and is as passionate about him as we are” and that would be a fair point to make. Earlier this year in an interview with Collider, however, Goddard had this to say on Daredevil:
“You’re talking to a guy who had quotes from Daredevil painted on his wall while growing up. Even when I was 18, I still had the blood-red door with the, ‘I have shown him that a man without hope is a man without fear.’ That was what I loved and so it’s the sort of thing that if we can find the right project, I would love to do it.”
Perhaps he’s the right man for the job. We’d love to hear your thoughts on the upcoming Marvel series’ and you can tell us them in the comments section below!
Source: TheWrap
