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The David Slade Directed Daredevil Reboot Has a New Writer

30 April 2012 1:00 PM, PDT | ScifiMafia | See recent ScifiMafia news »

About two years ago, we told you that 20th Century Fox was looking to develop a reboot of Daredevil, and David Scarpa (The Last Castle, The Day the Earth Stood Still) was hired to pen the script. About a year after that, the studio hired director David Slade (Awake, Hannibal) to helm the reboot.

When Slade was brought on board, Scarpa’s previous script was jettisoned, and the studio and director were seeking seeking a writer to work closely with Slade. The following summer, Brad Caleb Kane (Fringe) was brought on to pen an adaptation of Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli’s comic storyline Born Again for the film.

Now, Deadline reports that David James Kelly has been brought on board to do yet another rewrite of the Born Again adaptation, which sees The Kingpin uncovering the superhero’s secret identity, and turning Matt Murdoch’s life upside down.

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- Jason Moore

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Daredevil Will Be Written Again

29 April 2012 5:08 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Fox has been quietly developing a new Daredevil film for a couple of years now. 30 Days Of Night and Twilight: Eclipse director David Slade has been attached since last spring, and there have been screenplays by David Scarpa (The Day The Earth Stood Still) and Brad Caleb Kane (Brooklyn's Finest). Now though, there's word of yet another draft, this time by David James Kelly.The plan is still to adapt the Frank Miller saga Born Again, first published in Daredevil issues 227-233, in 1986. The story sees Matt Murdock outed as Daredevil by his former secretary Karen Page. She has, shall we say, fallen on hard times since leaving the Nelson & Murdock law firm, and sells the info for a shot of heroin. It eventually reaches crime boss The Kingpin, who proceeds to creatively dismantle Murdock's life and send supervillain Nuke into Murdock's stomping ground of New York's Hell's Kitchen.In the comic, »

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Comic Book Bites: Iron Man will have James Bond-style recast when Robert Downey Jr quits role; Daredevil reboot gets new writer

29 April 2012 11:35 AM, PDT | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »

Among all the reboots and relaunches on the big screen, there is one glaring exception: James Bond.

Numerous actors have played 007, including Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig, while M - Bond's boss and the head of MI6 - changed gender when Judi Dench stepped into the role in 1995's GoldenEye. No explanations, no retellings, no going back to square one, the franchise just carried on regardless.

Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige appears to like that approach, and says they will probably use it when Robert Downey Jr, now 47, no longer wants to continue playing Tony Stark/Iron Man.

Feige told Badass Digest: "I think Bond is a good example. Let's put it this way: I hope Downey makes a lot of movies for us as Stark. If and when he doesn't, and I'm still here making these movies, we don't take him »

- David Bentley

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Daredevil Remake Gets New Writer and Storyline

28 April 2012 6:15 PM, PDT | WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news »

Back in 2010, 20th Century Fox hired David Scarpa (The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Last Castle) to write the script for the studio's "Daredevil" remake. A year later, David Slade (30 Days of Night) was on board to direct. Since then, Slade updated his Twitter account with news that the film is moving forward. But a few days ago, he revealed that his focus has shifted to the upcoming "Hannibal" TV series, hinting that "Daredevil" may be dead. Then just recently, Fox CEO Tom Rothman confirmed that development is still moving forward. And now comes word that the studio has hired David James Kelly to re-write the script. The idea is to adapt Frank Miller's "Born Again" storyline, which ran in "Daredevil" #227-233 in 1986 and involves an intense personal attack on Matt Murdock's friends and family following Wilson Fisk (aka The Kingpin) learning his true identity. »

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