{"id":289752,"date":"2026-01-17T20:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/289752\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T20:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:07:07","slug":"the-rips-joe-carnahan-opens-up-about-his-punk-rock-take-on-daredevil-and-teases-his-dormant-remake-of-the-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/289752\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rip’s Joe Carnahan opens up about his punk rock take on Daredevil and teases his dormant remake of The Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filmmaker Joe Carnahan is having a big week. In addition to releasing his new Netflix film, The Rip<\/a> (read our review<\/a>), starring the dynamic Hollywood duo Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, his recent spot on The Playlist<\/a>\u2018s Discourse podcast<\/a> finds him spilling the beans concerning projects that could have been. According to Carhahan, he nearly took a trip to the dark alleys of Hell\u2019s Kitchen for a punk rock adaptation of Marvel\u2019s Daredevil.<\/p>\n

Carnahan\u2019s Daredevil project came and went years ago, before 20th Century Fox lost the rights to the character and sold them back to Marvel, who then partnered with Netflix for the original series starring Charlie Cox as the Man Without Fear. Carnahan says he wanted to make a period-set Daredevil trilogy, which would have tracked the character through distinct musical and cultural eras.<\/p>\n

Carnahan\u2019s Daredevil would have spanned musical eras<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was going to be \u2018Daredevil\u2019 in 1973, which was classic rock, then \u2018Daredevil\u2019 in \u201979, which was punk rock, and then \u2018Daredevil\u2019 in \u201985, which was new wave,\u201d he explained. \u201cIt was very street-level, very Hell\u2019s Kitchen. That\u2019s the version that always spoke to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, stakeholders failed to see Carnahan\u2019s vision for the character and pushed back against his ideas. As unique and refreshing as Carnahan\u2019s Daredevil ideas sound, it\u2019s an uphill battle to get a green light for a superhero project that doesn\u2019t follow \u201cthe formula,\u201d if you know what I mean.<\/p>\n

The problem with making superhero cinema after Nolan\u2019s Batman<\/p>\n

Another problem for Carnahan was that, after Christopher Nolan made his Batman trilogy, he didn\u2019t see much point in exploring that territory. Shareholders see Nolan\u2019s Batman, and they want something on par with it, or bigger. The demand is too much, unrealistic. There\u2019s no room for street-level ideas like a pop-punk Daredevil.<\/p>\n

\u201cListen, it\u2019s like when you\u2019ve done it as well as Chris Nolan did it in the \u2018Batman\u2019 films, and that\u2019s just done as well as it can be done,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

Carnahan has a \u201cbetter\u201d idea for The Raid<\/p>\n

Carnahan also discussed his idea for a remake of The Raid: Redemption on the Discourse podcast. According to the director, he and Frank Grillo were toying with the idea of an emotionally-charged version of the concept, a version Carnahan thought was better than the original.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wrote on spec with the idea that if we did it\u2014 I wanted to make it modular so that if we couldn\u2019t come to an arrangement with the actual \u2018The Raid,\u2019 that we could take those elements out and it would be my own script,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n

Carnahan continues by saying his version of The Raid would be \u201cmore fundamentally emotional than the original\u201d and would give him an excuse to work with Grillo again, which he always looks forward to. For better or worse, the project is no longer in the cards, as Carnahan was unable to reach an agreement with the producers.<\/p>\n

Better than The Raid, you say? What\u2019s that Steve Martin quote from Three Amigos? \u201cThat\u2019ll be the day.\u201d Yeah, that\u2019s it. Look, I like Joe Carnahan quite a bit, but let\u2019s not say things we can\u2019t take back. What do you think about Carnahan\u2019s ideas for a punk rock Daredevil and an emotional take on The Raid? Let us know in the comments section below.<\/p>\n

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