World Enough and Time

I want a good Daredevil movie. The one from 2003 was mediocre... Not bad, but not good enough, especially when it came to acting and characterization. And script. And plot...

But I love Daredevil. Always have: it was one of the comics I came to with issue #1, and I'e always found Daredevil's combination of acrobatic action, tragic blindness, intellectual achievement and sexy determination to be irresistible.

And Daredevil, in its run, has had some of the best writers and comics in the business.

So yes, I want a good Daredevil movie. And didn't have much hope. The Daredevil movie of my dreams would have the quality of character and thought of, say, the Avengers movie, but without all the explosions: there would be a lot of plot, and focus on the main character, and it would all be rather adult in concept...

Seems there is going to be another Daredevil movie, as I stumbled on this item: explaining that Josh Hartnett won't be playing Daredevil. I don't know who Josh Hartnett is - I see he was in Sin City, so I must have seen him, but I don't remember. Looking at variouis pictures of him - in some he looks totally wrong, in others... yeah, maybe he could do it. Looks a little young for the role, but then, some of those photos must be old, and the story won't necessarily follow the Matt of current continuity. We might go back to the origin story, in which he would have to be able to play young.

He doesn't look impossible. But then, the item was saying he wasn't likely in the role. I'm more concerned about David Slade, who seems to be known for teen movies. Uh-oh.

What I'm hoping is that The Avenges has not just popularized superhero movies, but has raised the bar on quality. And that "quality" won't just consist of special effects, but of plotting, characterization and nuance as good as we get in the comics they're based on.