Will 'Daredevil' Success Lead to 'Elektra' Movie? -
February 2003
HOLLYWOOD (Zap2it.com) - After raking in more than $45 million in its
opening weekend, "Daredevil" has practically guaranteed that
it will return with a sequel -- and maybe even a spin-off.
"Daredevil" writer and director Mark Stephen Johnson says he
is considering created a film around "Daredevil" love interest
Elektra Natchios, played in the film by "Alias" star Jennifer
Garner.
"Elektra is such a dark character," Garner tells MTV.com. "If
you read especially the [Frank Miller] comic books and even after that,
she is dark. She just gets darker and darker. I mean, the chick visits
her own grave -- it's not normal.
Marvel Comics spun the "Daredevil" character into the star
of her own comic book series, and Johnson is considering doing the same
on the silver screen. Johnson says he may ask fellow "Daredevil"
fan and filmmaker Kevin Smith ("Dogma"), who appears in a brief
cameo in the film, to adapt his own brief run as a writer for the comic
book series into a screenplay. Or Johnson may write the script himself
and base it on Frank Miller's gritty Elektra "Resurrection"
story.
If "Elecktra" were to spin-off into a separate film, Garner
sounds as if she would be interested.
"'Elektra and Wolverine' is so interesting, [as well as] 'Elektra
and the Order of the Hand,' when she became a ninja," says Jennifer
Garner. "Elektra is out for blood. ['Alias'] Sydney fights because
she has to; she's either defending herself or she's getting rid of someone
in order to go and get what she needs. And that's a huge difference in
the way you approach a fight. Other than that playground fight, which
is a flirtation and a courtship -- Elektra is just ready to take anybody
down. She's looking for it."
A big of a fan of Elektra's comic book exploits, Garner reveals that
there are still a few things she would rather not explore in an "Elektra"
movie -- including the character's stint as a prostitute.
"When she's an assassin for hire, that's one thing," the actress
jokes. "When she's, like, an assassin for hire, that's another!"
