5 Ways to Make a Better Daredevil Movie

5 Ways to Make a Better Daredevil Movie

Dear Wal,

We all remember Daredevil, it’s like a nightmare that was actually half-decent but just terrible enough to leave a bad taste in your mind. Here are a few ideas of mine that I think would bring us a better adaption of Daredevil.

1) Don’t make Daredevil into Marvel’s Batman. Daredevil is not Batman. Daredevil is violent bordering psychotic and much more sensitive than Batman. He expresses his emotions and his weaknesses, whereas Batman is mostly internalized. However, even though Daredevil is an emotional apocalypse waiting to happen, he deserves better than his portrayal in the 2003 Daredevil.
2) Matt is a lawyer, and often his moral dilemmas are often about whether he has the right to act as judge, jury and executioner as Daredevil. Some of the best Daredevil tales center around Matt’s skills as a lawyer, think of the saga of the White Tiger in Bendis and Maleev’s run on the series. 

Daredevil: Cruel and Unusual

3) We all know Matt has a history with women, but the story shouldn’t focus too much on his lover, whether it be Karen, Elektra, Milla..etc. Especially if it’s an origin story. Daredevil’s lovelife should be a side to the overall plot. Too much of a spotlight on it and moviegoers might just run screaming from the theatre ripping their hair out.
4) Ditch the soundproof coffin. Seriously, people.
5) Take a plot from the comics and adapt it, change it as needed, pull scenes from other memorable storylines, whatever, just don’t make a direct adaption of a comic book storyline. That’s what worries me the most about rumors of an adaption of Daredevil: Born Again.

Not only is Born Again the wrong comic to adapt to the screen because of the continuity associated with it and a host of other reasons, criticism for a direct adaption of a comic, especially what is considered one of Miller’s best works on Daredevil, is bound to be ten times worse than for a movie with it’s own original plot.