GARRETT HEDLUND DAREDEVIL REBOOT ?

GARRETT HEDLUND DAREDEVIL REBOOT ?

Turned Down Captain America! But Will Garrett Hedlund Dare To Play The Daredevil?

Editorial Opinion
By Gab - Mar 06, 2011 03:03 PM EST
Filed Under: Daredevil

New news emerged this week and over the last few months about Marvels plan to make another Daredevil movie franchise. One of it's more popular characters about a blind vigilante acrobat who leaps from buldings and kicks the shit out of bad guys.
The company tried this once before with Ben Affleck a few years ago, but to me he wasn't the right guy for the job, and the movie came off cheap! It's not the character you make the movie about it's the actor you pick for the role that counts. I wonder if Garrett Hedlund would take this job. Less than a year ago Marvels movie line really wanted Garrett Hedlund to star as Steve Rogers in the First Avenger, but he didn't want to sign on to a long term agreement. At the time it was a 9 picture deal, too much for the 26 year old actor who was geared to star in Tron Legacy. So Chris Evans became Captain America and Tron went on to be a big picture hit. But I wonder if Hedlund would have jumped at the chance for maybe a two picture deal.
Daredevil is a dark comic, the scenes are always night time or rainy, and Matt Murdock aka Daredevil's character comes off the same way. That's Hedlunds style all the way.
He definitly has a darker side as seen in Death Sentence, where he played Billy. A heartless gang leader, but Hedlund also has lead star appeal for a big budget like Tron.
He has great acting range for a actor his age.
Maybe Captain America wasn't right for Hedlund and Affleck wasn't right for Daredevil. But I truly believe Garrett Hedlund should be Marvels hero for hire as the DAREDEVIL!

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yankeemanf
yankeemanf - 3/6/2011, 3:53 PM
idk it could work not sure tho
CraptainAmerica
CraptainAmerica - 3/6/2011, 4:08 PM
I thought Evans was always Marvel first choice?! I know that's most probably the only thing they would say in light of his recruitment but I'm not sure Hedlund didn't make the part purely on the fact he didn't want to sign a nine picture deal.

As for him playing Daredevil I just hope the right are back or about to go back to Marvel. I want as many characters back at Marvel as possible and DD is one of them! They can't rush a DD movie out so hopefully this will happen soon enough. And when it does I think Hedlund would be great in the part...if that happened that is
Gab
Gab - 3/6/2011, 4:17 PM
@CraptainAmerica & @TGA Hedlund was Marvels first pick they wanted him bad because Mavel was switching to disney and he was already signed on to star in a big disney movie Tron. He turned them down a couple of times. No Evans was not their first choice thats fact. His agents didn't want a nine picture deal after evans signed it he made them cut 3 movies off of his.
RoscoeFolgers
RoscoeFolgers - 3/6/2011, 4:43 PM
@Crap- If I recall correctly John Krasinski HAD the role until the negative backlash forced them to recast.

But no to Hedlund, I'd rather someone with talent play Daredevil. Armie Hammer's my personal choice, but I'd be happy with anyone that could pull it off.
writernick
writernick - 3/6/2011, 9:15 PM
I still like the idea of Michael C. Hall of "Dexter", or Damian Lewis of "Life" for DD. Both had been fancasted by members of this site a while back, and I always thought those two had potential
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 3/7/2011, 5:29 AM
So...is this FOX's movie, or are we talking Marvel Studios? Because as of right now, FOX still has the DD rights. There's a very short amount of time for FOX to make a DD movie before the rights revert back to Marvel though.

So if this is FOX's plans, then i REALLY hope it doesn't get made. I don't see why Marvel Studios would be planning a DD movie if they didn't have the rights though.
StrangerX
StrangerX - 3/7/2011, 7:36 AM
I think he would be a great for DD. Much better than Affleck anyway.
Checkmate
Checkmate - 3/7/2011, 1:23 PM
I always thought DD should be a bit older.
Exiles
Exiles - 3/7/2011, 1:28 PM
no FOX plans to another daredevil movie not marvel. and no you need some one a bit older to play DD, not saying he's going to be bad but the dudes better suited for cocky characters such as Human Torch, and his performance in Tron kinda reminded me off tony stark don't know why could be a good replacement for RDJ in the future.
CraptainAmerica
CraptainAmerica - 3/7/2011, 2:05 PM
@Gab@Roscoe

Both of those make sense.

The Disney connection seems plausible. But I think studio links alone would have been a cavalier mistake to make when casting such an iconic character line Captain America.

The Krasinski rumour mill buzzed for months as far as I remember. He wasn't a horrendous choice but I may have been part of that backlash :-/
superbatspiderman
superbatspiderman - 3/8/2011, 5:23 PM
Ehh I don't see this working. Hedlund is a good actor but I don't like him As Daredevil.
canadianturd
canadianturd - 3/9/2011, 8:30 AM
I like this casting. Never thought of it before. Nice!
canadianturd
canadianturd - 3/9/2011, 8:32 AM
I like this casting. Never thought of it before. Nice!
AC1
AC1 - 3/9/2011, 11:52 AM
He's an interesting choice, but I'd prefer an older daredevil. Having said that, Hedlund would be an excellent younger Green Arrow DC side.
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