With Daredevil back on TV, let’s look back at the first, failed Daredevil show:
was a solid ratings hit. So why did it flop as a backdoor pilot? Certainly its timing could have been better. A little over a month after debuted in theaters and radically shifted the way Hollywood and audiences thought about comic books onscreen. Burton didn’t mask Batman’s pulpy roots, he embraced them, soaking the character in gothic atmosphere, impossible architecture, and extraordinary characters.
belonged to the previous one, where Hollywood producers looked down on comics and tended to leech out as much of their comic book-ness as possible. In the case of , that meant going so far as to change Banner’s first name to David, because, in the minds of the series’ producers, the alliterative Bruce sounded too cheesy.
. Whatever its strengths, this Daredevil was tied to the dated style of a decade-old television show.’s understated approach worked for its time, but that time was already gone by 1989. After one final TV film in February of 1990, the aptly-named The Trial of the Incredible Hulk and its Daredevil continues to be felt. The Hulk TV movies represent the first time — not just in the history of, but the history of the entire Marvel empire — that Marvel superheroes from different comics shared the screen together. Today, we take shared company-wide movie continuity as a given. In 1989, it was a revolutionary idea. In retrospect, these films were the earliest baby steps toward a “cinematic universe” of Marvel characters.
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