He advised all the fans in attendance that Frank Miller’s take on Daredevil from the 1980s “might be something to read in the next year or so if you want hints about something else we are doing.” The Internet went bananas, and in time it became clear that Agent M was referring to the Marvel Studios/Netflix Daredevil series that was set to release in 2015, that would not only revitalize an embarrassed franchise still mocked after all these years after what Ben Affleck in Co. Yes, Frank Miller, the ultimate fixer, whose dark and gritty stylings are harnessed when the coolest motherfuckers on the planet, superheroes, need to be reminded how to be cool again.Īt last year’s Comic Con in San Diego, prior to the Marvel Unlimited Plus Panel, Marvel’s Executive Editorial Director for Digital Media, Ryan Penagos (known by nerds across the world as simply, Agent M) dropped a hint of epic proportions.
And now, Frank Miller’s gutsy, bold new vision of everyone’s favorite blind superhero Daredevil, has been brought to life by Netflix. If not for Miller (and Chris Claremont), we wouldn’t have traveled with Logan to Japan in the 1982 four issue Wolverine miniseries which inspired the film The Wolverine. Without him the world would not have had the opportunity to experience Christopher Nolan’s uncompromising Dark Knight series. Time and again, in terms of comic book adaptations that have gone astray, the man whose work has been leaned on for inspiration has been Frank Miller. Not only is a Fixer someone you need around when the going gets tough, but they are also a special breed of person who is so exceedingly capable that every iota of your being wishes to be them.īut who do you call when what is in need of repair is a franchise? In particular, a comic book franchise which has been drug through the mud by uninspired writers, directors, and actors? No ordinary fixer will do in this situation. Wolf who handled with dashing certainty the “corpse in a car minus a head in the garage” in Pulp Fiction? Fixers are the ones with the answers, the undaunted souls who guide you through the darkness unto the light. Who can forget George Clooney as Michael Clayton? Or Clooney, once again, as Ryan Bingham in Up in the Air? How about James Caan’s turn as Joe Sarno in The Way of the Gun? Or Mr.
One whose bravado, poise and fortitude is intoxicating.
The person who confidently steps into a sticky situation and makes what’s wrong, right. Frank Miller’s influence, once again, breathes new life into a fallen franchise….Įveryone loves the Fixer.
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