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Director: Fox's plan to reboot 'Daredevil' goes 'up in smoke'

Daredevil, known as “the man without fear,” may also soon be “the man without a movie.”

Joe Carnahan, director of The Grey, The A-Team, and Narc, had been planning to do a gritty reboot of the blind Marvel Comics character, who uses his heightened other senses to battle criminals. But there’s a ticking clock that may have effectively run out already.

20th Century Fox owns the film license for the character, following the 2003 Ben Affleck/Jennifer Garner movie, but the studio would have to get a new Daredevil project underway by October in order to keep those rights. Otherwise, they have been fallow so long they revert back to Marvel Studios.

Carnahan is a relatively recent addition to Daredevil after 30 Days of Night filmmaker David Slade dropped off the project in July. But it doesn’t seem like his concept has much of a future.

“Think my idea for a certain retro, red-suited, Serpico-styled superhero went up in smoke today kids,” Carnahan tweeted from his @CarnoJoe handle on Monday evening. “We shall see. Time is NOT on anyone’s side.”

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