Variety is reporting that David Slade is set to direct the next film featuring The Man Without Fear. The article states that is a continuation, so I'm assuming that it would be handled the way Universal handled the Hulk franchise.Slade was up for the directing duties for Wolverine, but it went to Darren Aronofsky. Films that Slade has to his resume includes: 30 Days of Night, Twilight: Eclipse, and Hard Candy. He is in pre-production for The Last Voyage of Demeter, which chronicles the crew of the merchant ship that was slaughtered by Dracula on his voyage from Transylvania to England.
This ends the possibility of the rights of the horned one (and others) to return to Marvel Studios as I discussed about before. The contract was for seven years - the Daredevil film came out in 2003 and made a cameo in the 2005 film Elektra. Let's hope for the best here. What do you guys think? Who should be the new DD?
UPDATE: The Hollywood Reporter is saying that the followup would be based off the classic Frank Miller story "Born Again." The story details Daredevil's fall to insanity and destitution at the hands of the Kingpin, as well as his subsequent struggle to build a new life for himself. I'm taking this with a grain of salt, hope am hopeful.