Jason Statham Drops Out Of DAREDEVIL Negotiations After News Of His Involvement Leaked?

This is the problem with rumours. According to a new report, Jason Statham was indeed in negotiations to play Bullseye in the second season of Marvel and Netflix's Daredevil, but yesterday's leak has apparently killed the deal. What went wrong? Hit the jump for details...

By JoshWilding - Jun 05, 2015 06:06 PM EST

Filed Under: Daredevil

Rumours are great and all, but there's a serious downside to them when it comes to casting in particular. Yesterday, Latino-Review revealed that Jason Statham was in talks to play Bullseye in season two of Daredevil, news which was met with an overwhelmingly positive response from fans.

According to Bloody Disgusting, the British actor "was legitimately in heavy negotiations for the role and the leak killed it. Perhaps his agent saw the positive uproar and instantly upped the actor’s asking fee? Perhaps the studio spotted the same excited reaction and preemptively killed the deal out of fear of Statham’s management going for more money? Who knows. The bottom line is that yesterday the Crank star was at the top of the list and deep in negotiations and today Marvel has moved on to other pastures." Each of those possible theories make perfect sense.

There's nothing to say he would have definitely landed the role of course, but this seems awfully similar to what happened with Joaquin Phoenix and Doctor Strange last year. Collider jumped the gun by reporting that the actor had landed the role, everyone got excited, and the deal suddenly fell apart. It's doubtful that Statham's recent comments about Marvel movies have anything to do with this, and he may have in fact made those because his Bullseye would have brought something different to that world in terms of practical fight scenes. Now though, I guess we'll never know!

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Khanlark - 6/5/2015, 6:11 PM

Statham strikes me as a bit of a dick.

Steelers4190 - 6/5/2015, 6:12 PM

If Marvel killed it over money......wowwwww lmao

LEVITIKUZ - 6/5/2015, 6:12 PM

Sure he was.

RextheKing - 6/5/2015, 6:13 PM

[frick]KKK. This is some bullshit.

imkennypowers - 6/5/2015, 6:14 PM

DAGuess - 6/5/2015, 6:17 PM

Lol the f#&ker made Crank 2 and he's too good for Marvel!!!

Sulti1274 - 6/5/2015, 6:18 PM

Whatever

GeekyCheekyChic - 6/5/2015, 6:18 PM

So in layman terms Latino Review is full of shit. As per usual. Post speculative ideas and when they don't pan out "well its Hollywood things change" and if it comes true "haha see? We are the scoop masters of the universe! Our arms will tire from patting ourselves on the back!"

StevenLaw - 6/5/2015, 6:20 PM

I've never seen the appeal. He's a one-trick pony. His so-called "acting" is exactly the same in every single role. We all know exactly what Bullseye we would have gotten. You know it. I know it. I'm glad he's out. Maybe now we'll get a legit actor who can portray depth and nuance.

FrozenDiamondz - 6/5/2015, 6:22 PM

Sounds like backtracking to me

"I was wrong, so lets make some bullshit story about him backing out" lmao

storyteller - 6/5/2015, 6:23 PM

Bah I say get Colin Farrell back.

mgeoff88 - 6/5/2015, 6:23 PM

That doesn't really make any sense...

The news being leaked shouldn't have killed negotiations.

superheronerdo - 6/5/2015, 6:23 PM

Hmm...here's a more plausible thought. Maybe this article and the previous article are utter bullsh*t?! hmmmm

Darkknight2149 - 6/5/2015, 6:23 PM

Jason Statham would make a good Lester Buchinsky/Electrocutioner in Gotham or Arrow.

Also, the Ultimate version of Blackie Drago/The Vulture was drawn to resemble Jason Statham in the comics. This doesn't really mean anything, especially considering the Ultimate version of The Tinkerer was drawn to resemble Paul Giamatti (who ended up playing the Rhino). It's just an interesting fun fact.

YeezusWept - 6/5/2015, 6:24 PM

Lol at the shameless Wilding self-promotion.

staypuffed - 6/5/2015, 6:24 PM

Well, I'm glad he's not in it.

ScottMontgomery - 6/5/2015, 6:24 PM

GOOD! DON'T WANT HIM NEAR A COMIC BOOK FILM!

mgeoff88 - 6/5/2015, 6:25 PM

Wow... Josh actually plugged his clickbait article at the bottom of this Marvel article.

Someone thinks being professional is overrated...

NateBest - 6/5/2015, 6:25 PM

"Preemptively" killing a deal doesn't make any sense, *ass*uming there WERE any actual negotiations happening. Why drop out of negotiations before an amount is thrown out?

XMenMarvelFan - 6/5/2015, 6:27 PM

Oh shit I LOVE Bloody Disgusting the best horror site for horror fans.

TheBeard - 6/5/2015, 6:28 PM

XMenMarvelFan - 6/5/2015, 6:28 PM

Why does everyone hate on Josh? He's always been nice too me personally every time I had a encounter with him.

FrozenDiamondz - 6/5/2015, 6:29 PM

Amazing how fanboys believe anything thrown at them

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