Garner Resurrecting 'Daredevil' Role - february
2003
LOS ANGELES - Jennifer Garner is resurrecting her "Daredevil"
role.
20th Century Fox and production partner Regency Enterprises said Wednesday
that Garner will star in an action spinoff featuring her Elektra Natchios
character, introduced in Ben Affleck's superhero hit "Daredevil."
The Elektra film will be set after events in "Daredevil," in
which Garner's character seemingly died. But "Daredevil" ended
with a cryptic scene indicating Elektra might have survived.
Garner, 30, played the martial-arts master girlfriend of Affleck's title
character, a blind attorney who develops superhuman senses that allow
him to become a masked crusader for justice.
Based on the Marvel comic book, "Daredevil" has been the No.
1 movie at the box office the last two weekends. The studio said a "Daredevil"
sequel also is in the works.
Garner, who stars in the television hit "Alias," joins Halle
Berry as the latest actress to earn a spinoff from a male-oriented action
franchise. MGM plans a sequel for Berry's character from last year's James
Bond movie "Die Another Day."
