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Disney bought the rights for iron man from paramount for 115 million a while back which also gave them avengers rights. We need to get on Disney to buy the rights for daredevil so they can do it right. Think they get those rights for less or more then 115 million?

MWOF · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 4:06 pm Post subject:

They should be able to buy the rights back for much less than $115 million. Iron Man was produced with a budget of $140 million and grossed $585 million worldwide, Iron Man 2 was produced with a budget of $200 million and grossed $624 million worldwide and Daredevil was produced with a budget of $78 million and grossed $179 million worldwide.

I also believe a factor in Disney/Marvel favor is that Iron Man is a hot and currently active property. Daredevil is not, not that it can't be, but unfortunately was mishandled. Daredevil came out in February 2003 and has been dormant for 9 years, with the exception of a recent attempt to reboot the franchise.
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Daredevil24 · Humanity's Fathom Joined: 06 Apr 2011 Posts: 367

I hope they get the rights back.I don't trust Fox.

Ash-n-Bone · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 3:50 am Post subject:

Sorry, don't want to sound like a douche, but this whole "super-heroes need to go back to marvel" argument is pretty naive. Just because a film is made under a particular studio doesnt mean the film will be good. How many indie films made by no-name studios are better than those by Paramount, Universal, Sony, etc...?

Would you rather Marvel/Disney got the rights and hired, say, Michael Bay, to direct? Or stay with Fox and keep Slade? On one hand you have Bay, with his HUGE scale car chases and explosions, and on the other, Slade, with his eerire tones and art-house styled cinematography. Slade's style is way more in tune with DD.

Dimetre · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 11:24 am Post subject:

Ash-n-Bone · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:53 pm Post subject:

^point taken, their respect for their own characters shows in their films. But do you guys think Marvel would go "dark" for DD? Like the films you've just mentioned, all of their mainstream hits have been about their "superheroes", as opposed to say their street level or horrorcore viglinates. I personally cant see them doing it. The only thing I like about Marvel is that they were interested in Josh Hartnett for Thor, and therfore may offer him DD if the rights did go back.

In all honesty though, I cant see Fox really moving forward with DD. I hope they would, but this has to be one of the slowest progressing comic book films ever.

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